By Aaron Woods
In 1966 Dodge introduced their L-series truck. This was a new medium duty cab-over truck intended to compete with similar offerings from GM and Ford. The new truck used a tilt cab based on the Dodge A-100 van. In 1970 IMC released a model of a 1969 Dodge L-700 tractor, which has now been re-issued by Lindberg. Although the truck was only built for a few years, it offers many options for the modeler.
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By Leo Dashevskiy – Georgia Mountain Modelers
One thing that emergency vehicle models leave a whole lot of potential for is installing working lights. I don’t think there are any vehicles on the road that have as many lights as they do. Leo is a member of IPMS Georgia Mountain Modelers, my home club, and I have seen some of his aircraft that he lights up and they are impressive. IPMS members have seen one of them grace a cover of a recent IPMS Journal. Here is a guide on how you can light up your models. – Chris Read more »
The Scale Firehouse was able to obtain some stimulus funds and get a fresh makeover to the place. Yea not really but it was time for some new things anyway and the new look is just one of the changes. Have a look around and see what you think. Be sure to sign up so you can leave comments and other new goodies. Unfortunately the site and the forum are not linked to the user accounts, that would have involved getting into the forum database and we don’t need that crashing after all. The new gallery is also online, there will still be some changes on it and more models added but like the entire site it is a work in progress! Let me know what you think and don’t forget to send me some stuff to put on here!
- Chris
By Charlie Rowley
Someone has asked about hose loads and in the past several questions have been asked of me regarding the hose loads I put in my apparatus models. So here is a short tutorial on what I have done.
There are two types of loads that I use.
1. Accordian load and
2. The flat load.
The accordion load is where the hose sections are vertical and next to one another.
The flat load is where each section lays flat and succeeding levels lay flat on top of them. Here are examples of each.
The first one is the flat load and is most often used for large diameter hose loads since it would come off the truck easier than other kinds. I used 3M yellow tape for the LDH on this model. It is 3/4′ wide. I cut off a piece and laid it flat so that I could fold it in thirds. The hand lines on each side are made from 1/8″ wide sewing elastic that you can find in any store such as Jo-Ann Fabrics, Wally World or Target.
The second is an accordion lay and is a bit neater than the flat lay. Read more »
By Chris Mobley
The pumper or as it also referred to, an engine, is the workhorse of the fire service. Depending on the department these trucks can be the trucks that respond to nearly every type of call. The history of the pumper goes all the way back to the early 1700’s when hand pumps were pulled to fires by hand and continues today to high tech high capacity trucks. But throughout that history and progression of technologies they have kept the same basic principal, putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.
The book is about the normal size for one of Squadrons reference books and has nice artwork on the front and back of trucks in action. Read more »
Reference | Aaronw November 30, 2009 | 
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