The Little World

Until someone suggests you could be guilty.

A big local scale model exhibition seems to have attracted a very unusual visitor: A 1:1 scale replica of a motor vehicle from 80 years ago.

It was parked in the front of the Cannington Exhibition Centre on the second afternoon of the show. I did not see the person who drove it in to ask about the details, but one of the SMCWA members who attended has searched it out since.

The replica is of a German army utility vehicle – a Kubelwagen – of the wartime period. It appears in remarkable preservation…a fact accounted for by its being constructed as a replica in the 1950’s. Apparently it is based upon a Volkswagen chassis or base plate, with the rest of the metalwork and seats being fabricated by the builder.

As such, we must take our hats off to him – the result is magnificent. It is licenced to drive on the road in Western Australia but i am uncertain if it would be taken off the bitumen too often. Too valuable.

Builders of scale model kits can view it with interest and reflect that nothing they buy in the hobby shops could ever be as expensive as this!