Cars and Trucks

Part of my collection includes cars to populate modern cities. They are from just about every little car company out there that made HO scale vehicles.

Fleeing refugees, fifth columns of saboteurs, or even irregular forces can all use civilian cars and trucks.

We have even played games of cops and robbers and they naturally need transportation.

Praline, Busch, Tomy, Roco, Wiking, Eko and many other companies made them. Model railroad shops are the best places for finding car collections, but toy shops and even Walmart have them sometimes.

I even have a small selection of Presidential limousines and a Rolls Royce.

M48 Tank

This is an HO scale die cast M48 tank. I got it at a toy store years ago, but they still appear now and again.

It is a later production version than the Roco Minitank. Roco makes one with the original engine, but later they were given the same engine as the M60 series tanks, and that made them have the raised engine deck as seen here.

Before the paint was stripped off, this was a pretty good vehicle but the paint was so heavy it obscured some of the details. The tracks were rubber and did not look good.

I replaced the tracks with Roco tracks from the spares box.

I will probably upgun some of these with the 105 mm gun found on late production M48 series tanks and perhaps a new cupola. Plenty of work to do.

Ykreol Germans

Prone Ykreol guys from the Winter German set. The undercuts are amazing!

This set has some really interesting poses, I plan on getting a bunch of these guys to supplement several of my Caesar sets.

Some Caesar Miniatures standing and kneeling figures with the Ykreol soldiers.

Size and equipment and even style wise these sets work well together.

A Caesar German Paratrooper with two Ykreol figures.

http://www.ykreol.com/miniboites.html

Caesar Winter Germans Ykreol

YKRIP14 - SOLDATS ALLEMANDS. RUSSIE - 1944 This is the new set from Ykreol.

http://www.ykreol.com/miniboites.html

These two are my favorites in the set. One guy with wire cutters and one with a land mine. He can be clearing the mines or laying the mine. Some of this set are wearing caps and some have the hood up over helmets.

These are World War Two Germans who are in winter dress, all are in prone poses. They are very similar to the Caesar Winter Germans set.

There are ten poses in the set. They include prone men with a variety of gear and weapons. Several will work for engineers too. On the end we see a man with an entrenching tool and the other end a man with an ammo box. The ammo box guy would work for a machine gun loader for a prone or even kneeling figure.

These three include a man with a rifle, one with a knife and one with a hand grenade. There are ten poses, all prone. They are flash free, and made of a nice soft plastic. The figures design is similar to the old Mir line of figures, but unlike Mir, these guys are plastic, not resin and very nicely detailed.

I like this set and I certainly intend to get some more of them. If you have the Caesar Winter Germans, then you really need some of these guys to round out the set.