Andrew Thomson1707819853 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Can anybody help?I am looking for a general 'small lorry' and/or vehicle to set up a 1950's servicing diorama with my 1/48 Airfix Meteor. Having found one or two (flightpath) accessories and a Beford QL refueller I was hoping for something smaller such as the WWII Beford MWD, sadly not in use by then? I believe.Is there any more out there? I have looked at Matador, verlinden - seems very few to be foundGrateful for any assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bletch Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 If you want to keep it to "kits" then I cant help but I had a similar problem looking for vehicles to go with my Sword 1/72 T5 and eventually ended up looking at Oxford diecasts in 1/76 scale and got a nice RAF Landrover-took the tyres off to sand them and gave it a bit of weathering and was quite pleased with it.I know they do it in 1/43 along with a minibus-maybe worth a look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Thomson1707819853 Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 Thanks for that, I have now found a Ford Thames Minibus along with a Series 1 landrover from Oxford - Ideal if only a little large but assume parking them slightly away from the aircraft will help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bletch Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Glad to be of help_I think 1/43 should be placed the far side of 1/48 as you look at it and 1/76 on the nearside of 1/72_something to do with optical thingies..! You'll find they come a bit "showroom" but a bit of weathering worked a treat.Hope they fit the bill but goes to show how ill-served post/cold war eras are for support vehicles(Come on Airfix_youre releasing the planes what about the vehicles that go with them!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmcabecadas Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I don't mix 1/43 with 1/48, as the volume is 30% bigger. This is not the same as mixing 1/72 and 1/76, where differences in volume is just a little over 10%. Besides, with smaller scales, models may be place so they look more distant from each other and this have effect when comparing sizes. With 1/43 and 1/48 its easy to spot one of them is out of scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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