Ground equipment plans/drawings?

[Alain De Loor]

Good Day All;

I was wondering if anyone had plans for the building of 1/48 ground equipment such as ladders, bomb carts, work platforms, boxes, desks, tables, compressors, chain blocks, engine hoists, etc? I would like to build some of these and make cad drawings which would be made available to all. I would also make conversion factors to other scales.

I think I can say we all would like to have more equipment around our aircraft displays and some have built superb items. Finding information on these items however is very difficult to find.

An example, I have come across a P-47 manual which shows how an aircraft was dis-assembled and all components packed together in just one huge crate. Then a series of instructions on how to take the crate apart for the re-arrangement of the crate as a work platform to re-assemble the aircraft. That would make a great dio!

Cheers

Al

[waistgunner]

I would be happy to send you some plans if I had any , you sure have a great idea . I have always wanted to do an airfield under construction . You may be onto something here ! I wish you the best of luck .

Respectfully , Fred

[Alain De Loor]

Hi Fred;

Thanks! I just retired a few weeks ago and used up my last remaining accumulated vacation days. As of midnight last night, I am retired from the RCN. It's going to be quite a change. I thought of this project to keep me busy and build new things. I had a look around google looking for items of interest and have started accumulating photos.

Thanks for your interest!

Al

[cmatthewbacon]

I was wondering if anyone had plans for the building of 1/48 ground equipment such as ladders, bomb carts, work platforms, boxes, desks, tables, compressors, chain blocks, engine hoists, etc? I would like to build some of these and make cad drawings which would be made available to all.

I don't know about plans, but there are some things like that in 1/24 made by Fujimi for car garage dioramas, and, though I've never explored in depth, some of the Japanese manufacturers make the weirdest things in, I think, 1/12th scale, like machine tools, vending machines, office furniture, and IIRC, a toilet! Have a good look around HLJ...

http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/has/kit_has_62003.shtml

bestest,

M.