hereI have completed my home-made Toyota Hilux Crew cab truck used by the SF in Iraq and Afghanistan. I constructed it by combining two 1/32 Toyota standard cab trucks to make the 4-door crew cab. You can see the in-progress shots and a description . I completed it with some gloss burgundy spray paint and filled it with details. The M249 SAW is a Blast item and the rest of the pieces are either from the spares box or of my own making (PLGR on the front seat).
Gotta hand it to ya, Gino–for a guy who does mostly “clean” models, the weathering is perfect on this! Love the stowage, and the stuff in the front seats!
A question, if I may? What’s that “X”-shaped thing protruding up off of the roof of the cab? It seems to me that that thing would pose a dangerous risk for riccocheting bullets if the stream from the MG passed over it? What’s its purpose?
Thanks dupes, it was a fun build and I like how it turned out. I first saw these trucks in Iraq when I was there in '03. If you look around the net, there are some pics out there, like these, which I used as a reference.
Looks like a night vision scope on top of the weapon, but I think that is a .30 cal M240B in the pic. No special designation that I know of. For search terms, I used things like “special forces Toyota”, “special forces pick-up”, “SF Hilux”, etc. I didn’t find a lot of pics, but there are a few more out there. Over at Armorama, a member posted pics of a few he was on in Afghanistan in this same thread as well.
Take a look at my in-progress thread linked above and it will explain it all. Unfortunately, the Toyota trucks I started with are old, OOP Revell/Monogram 1/32 snap-tite models. They do pop up on eBay from time to time though. Good luck.
I like your work but the passenger door are a little short, it needs a lettle more dirt on the sides, the wheels are not on the point,the gun is just right!! love it. the color is ded on. needs more stuff in the bed or my be just a fig. The type of truck company is right but not the truck. You could have used an AOSHIMA Toyota Hilux 4WD Double cab truck “1992” and you would be ded on it. the nerf-bar in the ber should not have lights on it; but in all looking over all that stuff you build makes me proud to say you have what it takes to do AutoMotive Modeling as well. http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&P=WR&I=LXSWD5
I give you a [#toast] to you scratch building and a [tup]for gitting it close to the 1:1 Truck in the images. Keep them coming!!!
great job and a far site cheaper than the resin Tacoma double cab kit in 1/35
a 1/35 double cab in plastic would be a great cross over kit, both for the auto builders and armor [sigh]
I am looking for the kits to follow your lead
oh and the pictures I have seen they {another board had many pictures of the TACOMAs in the field} ordered the double cabs off the showroom floor and shipped them over
Thanks for the kudos. It is not supposed to be the exact truck that is shown in the pictures, just something similar. I only used the pictures as a reference to the type of vehicles that the SF guys are using.
Another great build.[tup] And it is different, with nothing bigger than 7.62mm. Love the interior. Weathering looks great. It may not be perfect scale since it was a mesh of kits but it captures the essence of the idea and looks like it was fun.
Question, where did you get or did you make the pork chop hanging from the interior rear view mirror.
Hope you are doing well, did you get snowed in at Drum??
You seriously need to post some WIP pics in the Scale Auto forum also. a lot of people in the Truck/Commercial vehicle topic would appreciate this build. I know I do !!
Thanks guys. I haven’t been snowed in at Drum yet, just not able to egt to a non-secure computer that often. We are expecting snow all through the weekend though, yipee.
By the “pork chop”, I am assuming you mean the handset? If so, it is a resin copy of one I made from sheet and rod plastic.
I’m glad to hear you are doing well at Ft Drum. Snow…watch out when it comes. Keep those long undies on!!
Yes, I am showing my age by calling the handset a pork chop. I will have to buy you a book of VN slang. Force of habit!!! Nice job on it. Its those kinds of details that make the model
