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Creative => Customs Gallery => Ships & Vehicles => Topic started by: FireChief on November 24, 2006, 18:41:25
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Hello everyone,
This is the first custom I've done in a while. I have to say it's kind of growing on me.
Ben
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Nice one, Ben, the old black over red of Chicago. And it looks very neat.
What type of paint did you use, please?
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Nicely done, Ben ...
I looked at some photos of Chicago's fire trucks (http://www.fire-police-ems.com/misc/50500.shtml) and your fire engine is spot on!
All the best,
Richard
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Hey Guys,
First off, I'm glad you both like it.
Gordon - I used testors model spray paint. I'll have to look up the exact number and all.
Richard - Thanks for putting up some pictures of some Chicago trucks. I've always wanted to do a custom like Squad 2A. ::)
Ben
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Very cool custom truck, Ben! 8-)
The black makes a really interesting contrast to the red, and your paintwork looks very neat indeed. :yup:
Thanks for the pics, Richard. :) Saved me having to go googling for some reference. ;)
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Very nice. On different coloured fire trucks Coventry in England has yellow ones I believe.
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Very nice. On different coloured fire trucks Coventry in England has yellow ones I believe.
I believe that Coventry only had yellow fire engines briefly in the early 1970s. Diane and I were married in 1972 just before Christmas and went into Coventry and saw one in the city centre as the centre piece for a collection for the Fire Services Benevolent Fund. This was about the time the new colour had been introduced. Earlier on, West Sussex had some bright yellow fire engines, and later on Somerset had a yellow RTA unit based on a Mercedes van.
The Isle of Wight was the last brigade in England and Wales not to have red fire engines. Until the early 1990s they, rather appropriately, had white as the main colour with a red stripe round the waist, and very good it looked to.
In the 1970s, the Home Office ruled that fire engines had to be red in England and Wales, though no specific red - there is no official colour called fire engine red. This regulation doesn't apply to Scotland, however, where Grampian Fire Brigade have white fire engines. In England and Wales, support units such as control and command units don't have to be red, however, and are often white.
Anyway, I've rambled on a lot here and so I'd better stop and take my anorak off! ;D
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Great custom Ben, has just the right look.
My town has orange fire equipment, with blue striping and details. I really need to get some photos some time since it's unusual as a color.
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Hey everyone, Thanks for the comments.
I've been thinking about painting all of my trucks, I just can't decide on what color. In southern Ohio I think every color combination is pretty well represented; blue, white, red, green, yellow, etc.
I'd like to do the colors like the department where Tiermann is. Orange and blue 8-)
Ben
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Hello, Ben ...
Personally, I really like the old American fire truck colors. Deep cherry red bodies with rich gold pinstriping and lettering and shiny black (or red) fenders.
All the best,
Richard
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Nice looking truck Ben! The black does look VERY stylish with the red.
Personally, I really like the old American fire truck colors. Deep cherry red bodies with rich gold pinstriping and lettering and shiny black (or red) fenders.
I wonder if anyone is up to customizing the Victorian truck into an old-time fire engine?
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I wonder if anyone is up to customizing the Victorian truck into an old-time fire engine?
Flori on the German board has, but it's down at the moment.
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Hmm, I think I may have seen it. I wonder how different a European model would be from a vintage US model?
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Hey Captain Henry,
As Gordon said, Flori has a few on Playmo-Portal. Theres not really a difference though; fire apparatus didn't really change until mid way through the 20th century. While European departments stayed with more specialized units departments in the U.S. switched more to multi purpose ones. Some difference though were front mount or rear mount pumps, different storage systems, different ladders, etc.
Ben
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As Gordon said, Flori has a few on Playmo-Portal.
Ben
Hello, Ben ...
I went over to Playmo-Portal (http://www.playmo-portal.com/playmobilforum/das-neue-auto-t6278.html) to take a look at Flori's antique fire fighting equipment.
Very, very interesting!
All the best,
Richard