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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 09:12 PM UTC
Mirror Models has released images of their latest truck getting ready for market. This latest 1/35th scale offering is the Ford F30A LRDG truck with 37mm Bofors AT gun.
The images provided by Mirror Models look to be CAD offerings and as such I don’t know how the model will break down, but I do know that Mirror Models usually include photo etched parts.
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Some of Fords were fitted with Chevy banjo type differentials because of early Fordones issues and production shortage, however if you go through period LRDG photos you will find both types of differentials used commonly
MAY 11, 2016 - 02:44 AM
similar of today's f-150 pick-ups w/gun-turrets.this unit is the front-runner of the 22nd special-air-service(sas)-regiment.
MAY 11, 2016 - 02:49 AM
Surely some early production Ford CMPs were fitted with GM axles, for Ford has certain difficulties with establishing their own axle production plant. There was even an early batch of 47 F15As with mixed axles (Ford front axles and Chevrolet rears). However, talking about those LRDG mounts, on the popular picture of the Y6 truck of Y patrol it is very well visible the front axle is Ford split type. An interesting detail on the same picture: there are towing shackles on the front bumper, what is typical for Chevy CMPs only.
MAY 11, 2016 - 12:48 PM
Looks nice.
MAY 11, 2016 - 02:33 PM
Sorry, but if the "popular picture of the Y6 truck of Y patrol" is the same one posted below, I think that's simply a black & white pic of one of the incorrectly assembled reenactors vehicles. Certainly there were F30As with their own Ford axles, but these were the very first ones made with wooden cargo bodies (never seen in LRDG Fords, instead fitted with the 3A1 steel body) and the later Cab 13 ones. If anybody knows these real WW2 pics, please post or link to them as I would love to get that cleared.
MAY 11, 2016 - 04:17 PM
I guess you could be right indeed http://www.lrdg.org/desert_raiders_newsletter.htm Here are 2 more views of the very same truck (nicknamed "Aramis" ) : War & Peace Show (2008) : and here's a WW2 picture of the original "Aramis", with the corresponding caption from the IWM website : "Portrait of Captain David Lloyd Owen with Private 'Tich' Cave on the back of the 30 cwt truck behind, outside the Farouk Hotel in Siwa. Lloyd Owen joined the Yeomanry ('Y') Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group in mid 1941 and went on to lead it after..." H.P.
MAY 11, 2016 - 05:08 PM
Will be added to the stash...
MAY 11, 2016 - 06:00 PM
This is definitely a must have, another great looking Mirror Models kit.
MAY 11, 2016 - 06:16 PM
be interesting to see how my scratchbuilt one compares must get this one LINK
MAY 12, 2016 - 05:50 PM
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