1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

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1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby TheChronicOne » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:31 am

I have opened up my Bobkit thing of 1/72 scale Airport Vehicles.

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And, yay, they come with figures! I'll get pictures of more tomorrow.... and man, what a colorful pile of stuff it is! They are molded in the 3 glorious primary colors red/blue/yellow as the vehicles are painted, although the blue color is "off" and the yellow looks "off" as well. Not ugly colors, just not exactly primary and not exactly accurate for the vehicles they portray.

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Preview.

These are more "dissasembled toy" than model parts. The construction of them is snap-together and they are build just like little toy cars would be. For instance, the clear parts for the windows are just one piece that snaps in, opposed to individual window pieces, or sides, etc.

Still, if they are truly in scale they will be a welcome addition to the shelf and it will be killer having some support vehicles and people to stage with newly completed models. Besides, I haven't built a car model in eons... early 1990's. It'll be fun.

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Oh, what else.... let's see here.... the instructions are very nice! Full color exploded diagrams. They are definitely copying from LEGO's homework on this one and I'm not surprised as Bobkit stuff was marketed toward kids, right? (I also have a Bobkit 1/72 C-160 Transall somewheres.... it came with a load of figures, too).

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Notice the little "hey, this stuff snaps together" symbol up by the numbers.

Transfers are neato, and look to be in good shape:

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I might go on ahead and start working on these tomorrow. Finish one a week or something. Can't wait to use them next to stuff. I know they all French and all but this stuff could potential be at any airport or airbase in the world and should be alright to be posed with damn near anything aside from anochronistic type things like a .... Zepplin or.... tri wing something or other... :lol:
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby Graeme H » Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:51 am

I have that same kit, interested in how you go with this
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby tor lives » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:57 am

Where is the Airport Manager? :D
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby RayS » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:44 pm

tor lives wrote:Where is the Airport Manager? :D
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Asleep at his desk!
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby scotty100368 » Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:20 pm

RayS wrote:
tor lives wrote:Where is the Airport Manager? :D
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While us rampers are out in the friggin' cold weather!
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby TheChronicOne » Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:33 pm

Uh oh, here she is:


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.......And she's mad as hell at you that you bought more model kits instead of groceries!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :lol: :x :P


And the others:

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Ol boy is either riding a horse or driving that baggage truck thing.. :D
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby TheChronicOne » Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:46 am

Does anyone happen to know which specific vehicles these are supposed to be? Other than being Renault, I have no clue. A simple search of "Renault Fuel Truck" has me getting nowhere. Of course, I will try some other things before giving up, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask here while I'm at it. 8-)



EDIT: Oh yeah, here's the first one I'm going to work on, the fuel truck:

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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby Graeme H » Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:44 pm

Always thought it was closest to the Renault JN85, but as fuel tankers go quite small, my thinking was small turboprops etc
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby tor lives » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:59 pm

TheChronicOne wrote:Uh oh, here she is:


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She looks nothing like me :D
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Re: 1/72 Scale Airport Vehicles and Staff

Postby hrtpaul » Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:09 pm

I thought there was a very uncanny likeness except she doesn't have a man bun :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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