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Modern railroad flatbed in 1/35
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Netherlands
Joined: November 06, 2013
KitMaker: 17 posts
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Posted: Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 03:53 PM UTC
Hi

Looking for info on modern(ish) flatbed railroad wagons which are used to transport armour/vehicles.

Any kits out there in 1/35 ?

My plan is for a small diorama, where 1 or more of these are on a railroad track, loaded with whatever I want to put on.

Trumpeter has a nice WWII era Type SSyms platform. This is closest I can find. It's pretty expensive, but looks nicely detailed. But it's WWII. Although these wagons will not have changed a lot in 70 years I guess.

Thanx !!
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Loire-Atlantique, France
Joined: October 09, 2004
KitMaker: 2,433 posts
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Posted: Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 04:30 PM UTC
French Army used the SSy platform (used for Panthers generally by Germans in WW2 for Panthers) to transport AMX-30 tanks back in the 1970s, possibly 1980s.

Dragon make one but a new brand has a nicer one apparently...

http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=SBM-35A02

Cheers,

Christophe
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England - North West, United Kingdom
Joined: March 30, 2006
KitMaker: 195 posts
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Posted: Sunday, May 01, 2016 - 04:40 AM UTC
You can use both of them as now.as they are still used by the Germans looking over photos a couple of days ago as building the sabre one.
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