One of the things that the Wehrmacht used to move troops around, especially in the early years, was buses. You couldn’t really expect your troops to all walk from Berlin to Paris, and trucks were more suited to carrying heavy loads of equipment, so buses were the ideal option, and there’s plenty of wartime photos of buses in use in every theatre of the war.
So I would really like a decent 1/35 scale bus with a full interior, preferably to include twenty to thirty seated troops with all their gear stowed on the roof. Seems like a simple enough request. And if you want to throw in an optional radio command interior as well I won’t complain. Oh yes, and a complete engine. Not that I’m being demanding but hey it’s like going to see Santa, he can only down-grade your request but if you aim low you can’t then go back and say “well you agreed to the PS3 too easily so how about I add in a 60 inch Plasma to play it on ?”
Actually I don’t think a bus is a completely stupid request. The old Ironside one is still around but it needs a lot of work, so I figure someone out there must be willing to take the punt on a decent Wehrmacht bus that can be used as either a troop transport, a command base, of a mobile canteen. I’d buy all three, and probably several of each.
I’d like to think I’m not the wierd odd one out that likes the one thing nobody else likes. I’d like to think that just as there are plenty of people out there who would build a World War One tank if a decent one were avaialable ( and before you go pointing your stubby little digits at the Ermar keep in mind I did specify “decent” ), that there are also plenty of people out there who would build the obscure pre-war and early war vehicles, the support softskins and the ancillary vehicles that sort of helped it all happen but never got the limelight. I just think no manufacturer has ever really taken the punt on the fringe support vehicles of World War Two.
So when you’ve made me my bus I’ll have a armoured 1935 vintage artillery tractor and a Magirus Achtradfahrzeug please.
Yay for busses Bayerlin had one in the desert and I have often thought of converting an Opel Blitz. A bus would be great and as Dean says could be put to many uses as a center for a diorama.
Amen to that, I really wish someone would do one. Roden does one in 1/72 so maybe one day they’ll do a 1/35 one.
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