The Little World

I rarely wander down the armour aisle at my local hobby shop – the offerings in my scale are all big hulking things that bear no relationship to my modest airfields and everything else seems to be 1:35 scale.  I am envious of all the accessories that the AFV builder can draw upon for the dioramas – perhaps it is just as well I cannot get it for my scale as I would spend all the household cash on tiny fencing and guardhouse boxes.

However, while  waiting for the queue to thin out – it was school holidays – I did glance through the tanks and trucks and found an Academy US Army ambulance and USAAF bomb tractor. Now that is useful…and in this case quite inexpensive. I have always been happy with Academy offerings so I snapped it up.

Two sprues – clean as whistles -for the ambulance and one for the bomb tractor. They look about as complex as the Italeri or Airfix ones I’ve built before and as long as the body sits on the chassis I’ll be happy.

This sort of project is really just a novelty from normal building but it’s surprising how often the inclusion of a vehicle in a scale model photograph makes all the difference in the interest of the image.