NEW Custom Rescue Tender

[playmofire]

Hello  Meg

Thank you very much indeed for the kind feedback. It would certainly be a great idea to do a join incident with Gordon in the future as he has a very nice collection of vehicles and is a good friend of mine. However you might be suprised that we have not actually met yet . I think this is something i will have to look into organising in the near future.

Kindest regards  Tim

Something I've been thinking about.  June is a possibility as I am down in Birmingham for a day working, but travel down the day before.

I'll be in touch soon on this.




 

[Captain Henry]

Hey Tim - what a way to come back with a bang! That rescue tender is beautiful. I am amazed at how much equipment it holds, and all of it stowed neatly - which I am sure is a necessity as during a crisis there is no time to be looking around... "I know I left that clamp around here somewhere...."

[FireChief]

Hey Tim,

That's a really cool rescue truck, I especially like the front of it. It looks like you have used every inch of space on it for something. Do you have a unit that holds a cascade system for filling airbottles? Thanks for sharing.


Ben

[Tim_w]

Hello  CH

Thank you for your very kind feedback. As you quite rightly say that with so much equipment it is important that everything has its place. However in klickie form it gets quite frustrating when you unpack everything and forget where it all goes or it does not fit the same way as before . I spent about 5 minutes trying to get one piece equipment out of the back without either breaking something, getting my finger stuck or worse tipping everything out   

Hello  Ben

Thank you very much for your kind feedback. The one problem i allways had was lack of space on the current Playmobil vehicles for all the equipment i needed to carry. So when i decided to make the Rescue Tender (my favorite type of appliance or rig) the priority was its ability to carry a lot of gear. However it is still not quite up to carrying everything so i am sure there are a lot more different version's to come !!.
Now on to the air bottles or BA (Breathing Apparatus) as they are referred here in the UK.  At the moment i don't have a vehicle with the ability to fill BA cylinders allthough this is something i plan on making in the future. Here in the UK they are usually referred to as BA Tenders or BA Support Units (BAT's or BASU's). The main role as i am sure is the case in the USA is to supply spare cylinders and re-charge, clean and service the empty set's. This particular type of vehicle is usually employed at protracted fires or chemical incidents again probably the same as your Air Truck's. Sometimes Chemical Incident Units here in the UK have an area for filling and servicing BA allthough our CIU's are by no means as big as some of your impressive semi trailer units !!.

Kindest Regards  Tim

[Morgan]

Great truck, Tim  I like the way you use every single centimeter of room 

One question. On the fourth and fifth pictures, there are some sort of shelf on the inside of the door. It's where the window would normally be. What is that? Looks like some kind of cabin or closet, but it is empty.

[Tim_w]

Hello  Kristian 

Thank you very much indeed for the kind feedback. Now to answer your question about the shelf in the rear door  .
To use every little bit of space i decided to use the window covers off the race service truck which the vehicle is based on. I was lucky enough to have two sets of each cover and with some sawing and sanding i cut 3 sets of the covers with shelves in to fill in the small windows as you spotted in the pictures. There are also the same shelves opposite the window in the fourth picture but these are actually full (you can just see the grey boxes above the blue cylinder). On the rear doors i could only have the one side fitted out with shelves because the door would not shut properly due to the slide out tool tray's. The shelves are empty at the moment because i need to decide what is going to be stored in them but i think there will be torches in the rear door and some more grey boxes in the side door. As soon as they are sorted out i will take a couple of close up's for you so you can see the finished result.

Kindest Regards  Tim