Does anyone know of an outfit who makes a kit of a revetment, in 1/48th scale, the AF used at bases, e.g. Phu Cat, Phan Rang, Tuy Hoa, etc, in 'Nam in the '60s and '70s? I know Verlinden makes one in 1/72nd, but I’m building up a series of F-100s in 1/48th and would like to mount them in revetments. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Dunno about who’s selling them but making them is a breeze… Probaly WAY cheaper too… Interested in that?
Hans,
I appreciate the response, but what kind of a breeze are you talking? I have considered building up revetments and have even figured out dimensions. I even have the correct color of dirt to fill them with here in mid TN. I’ve got quite a number of pics of them from the net and research books I have on the shelf. Do you have, or know where I can get, plans?
I’m talkin’ “Cool breeze, man…”. Easy money…[t$t]
No, I don’t have plans, I just use the ol’ Super-Calibrated Mk I Eyeball when building structures… I use a figure from the scale I want as a "yardstick, like for 1/48th, I figure that since the height of a standard Monogram figure is 1 1/2 inches, or 72 scale inches, I can use that to roughly measure out any structual dimensions… I mean, it’s a revetment, not a watch, so eyeballing it is close enough for government work, knowwhutImean?[t$t]
Never buy what you can build, that’s m’ motto, lol…
For the steel revetment wall-sections, I’d just build a “box” of styrene from a couple “Garage Sale”-type signs (my favorite sheet styrene source), glue strips of styrene cut form the signs on the front and sides, and then just sprinkle a litte “earth” along the top over the styrene “cap”, which I’d glue about a fat 1/8th inch down inside… Then I just keep building those boxes until I have enough to revet the entire area I’m working…
There were concrete revetments too, as well as sand-filled fuel drums too… It all depends on what you want to model… I’d make a mold-box for the concrete ones and cast them in plaster, or for the drums, make a “master” out of something like the Tamiya fuel drum set, then cast as many drum-sections in resin as I need, gluing them together and “filling” the top ones with dirt…
I certainly appreciate the input. I have the photo you included and will use it, and others, as a guide if I decide to go this route; another problem is where I’m going to put this thing. I would also like to get some fire extinguishers, oxie carts, and other bits and pieces to complete the -100. Again thanks for the information.
Found a picture of one being built that will give you a sense of scale.
Found this on another forum
On top of the revetment walls on the ends and where the walls joined another cross wall there was a sandbag fox hole. The yellow objects by the revetment opening was a bomb rack.
Tony Lee[:)]
Lots of nice info - most probably I can make a good use of it some day - so thanks for sharing and have a nice day
Paweł
I’m sure that there’s sets out there that contain some of the items you need, I think Hasegawa has one that does anyway… I’ve never seen a kit of a Huffer though, but I’ve built a couple from sheet styrene and plastic swizzle stick straws before and then used wheels from a Match box toy car on 'em…
ESCI also did a 1/48 set of ground equipment stuff. You can still find it on eBay and the other old kit sources.
Found a picture of one being built that will give you a sense of scale.
Air Force Civil Engineering REDHORSE and Prime BEEF at its finest. On another note, check out model railroading stuff as I think you should be able to find plastic corrugated metal sheets that would approximate these shapes. And O scale is 1/48.