Looking for modern day emergency vehicles

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Anyone know where I can find modern day emergency vehicles? I have a certain project in mind.

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Here’s one for police cars. This place even has scale light bars so you could take just about any car and make it a police car.

I used to have another but it was strictly die cast and now I can’t find it.

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Thanks but I am really looking for ambulances and fire trucks. I have an idea for a police swat/emergency response vehicle

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No idea as to the quality of the kit or the availability, but I found this on the Trumpeter website.

American LAFRANCE Eagle Fire Pumper 2002

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/war513/products/en_message.asp?id=323

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I know there are a couple of people still prodicing modern resin ambulance bodies. One of them is Spaulding Trading and Shipping. They have a resin Ambulance body. They suggest putting it on a truck frame behind a truck cab, but I don’t know about anywhere else, but all I ever see them on around here are the backs of vans. Which poses another issue. No modern fullsize van releases, not even in resin. At least not that I can find. Anyhow ST&S does have a resin ambulance body. Been thinking about picking one up myself.

Michael

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Very good kit. Well worth buying it. I have 3, all going to be various types.

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Is it really that good? Know of any late model Ford Van’s to attach it to? That way I could model ambulances from my own area?

Michael

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good evening,

the only source, I can help you. is a site specificly to EMS. http://scalefirehouse.com the site is back . it may help you in your seach… Personally, with a limited market. you’ll most likely need to scratch build your own… on e-bay, last week thier was a group sale of 4 built ems models avaible. the final bid was …resonable

My best to you !

nfpa1002

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The Scale Firehouse (link above) has a good listing of the various kits that have been made. It is also a good source for information.

As far as a late model Ford E350 in 1/25, the only option I know of is the Johnny Lightning diecast.

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Check this out!! I’m suprised no one has mentioned it yet! I think theres enough emergency vehicles here to keep you going for awhile…

http://www.megahobby.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=117

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Here check these guys out. Pretty nifty. http://scalefirehouse.com/home.html

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I guess someone beat me to it. DOH! Something that also might be of use, check out the modelers channel website, and there is a video tutorial about detailing wheel wells of aircraft, that could be adapter MANY places. Especially if you use it to create things that look 3D before painting them over. Not too hard. I do all kinds of graphic stuff all the time using PSP9(my favorite version, as V10 sucks so does 8, but 7 is good) I’ve already printed the maps from scale firehouse, and they look great, just use the highest quality setting for plain paper, on plain paper(don’t want them in gloss), and then fold them up and they look spectacular.

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I have some good news. I was up shooting today with a friend, and it turns out over the weekend there was an illegal rave party out in the woods on the moutain where we go shooting. Well after talking with federal and local LE, and letting them shoot the belt feed gun we had up there(whcih they loved), some of the ravers had left fires going, which as we know is a bad thing. Anyhow a Forest Service Brush Truck came up to put out the fires. After speaking with them, and suprising them that people build models of such things, I got to take a bunch of tripod mounted photo’s with my digital camera. So in the future here pretty quick when I have the time, I’ll be posting probably 10-20 photo’s of this thing. So there will be some good reference for a modern brush truck. Medium duty fire rig basically. Based on a rig about the size of an International MXT, or CXT.

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One place that no one has mentioned yet is SSB Resin , they just opened their doors and you can find the needed info on contacting them on the parts page of the Scale Firehouse. There are also some reviews of their products on the main site as well as the forum.

The Trumpeter kit is pretty much the only one that is modern in plastic.

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Guys

Thanks for all the help. I am not really interested in police cars as much as I am modern up to date fire trucks and ambulances. My intention is to build a super tactical response vehicle

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Here is a pic of the SSB Seagrave engine, there is also a squad. This is just 3 parts of the kit, there are a whole bunch of bags of nice parts that come with it.

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That’s great that someone is really doing ambulance bodies. Would love to do one of my ambulance.

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I would like to know if these can be custom made and if so who I can contact? Our company just got a new engine and we are wanting a model of it for a Chief Show that our engine will be at in May.

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by i bought one not bad had quit few flash and flas in the cab and a lot of the Dimond plate has to be painted for 60 to90 dollars not worth it my didn’t come with the clear platic spruce

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There is a 1/25 Ford E350 in styrene from Meng Models. I think they’re putting out a 1/35 one as well. It’s a really nice model; I hadn’t thought of putting something other than the bed on the back but it certainly wouldn’t be too difficult.

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most are european from revell. i have ALL of them and the Trumpeter ALF.