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Australian Military Vehicles
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Posted: Monday, March 08, 2004 - 04:55 PM UTC

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Here's another interesting Australian 'king cab' truck....


...again, courtesy of 'Roo's Archive's.

Tread.


sorry tread that one is an ex - French order from the states that was diverted to Britian when France fell in WW2. It is not Australian.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 05:43 PM UTC



Hmmmm, I suppose if I just simply read the bio...............

My bad.

But then, all cool looking trucks don't have to be Australian........do they?
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 08:07 AM UTC
For those interested, here is a rare 'prototype' Australian CMP vehicle.


And no, I didn't find this in your Archive's 'Roo (although I've only looked through several hundred of them! ). I found this while doing some ref' surfing.

Tread.

This would be a nice scratchbash! From what I can tell, you could mate a set of Universal Carrier tracks to the Chevy CMP cab and chassis and Voila!......what say you 'Roo?
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 08:31 AM UTC
yes Tread that pic and one or two more are in my archive here in the gallery and yes they were standard universal carrier tracks added to the back of a CMP 13 cab. They also fitted them to several other trucks both Chev and Ford during the war.this was trialed only and not put into production to my knowledge.


ford


chevrolet


International

And yes Tread this is another on my "to do" list.
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Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 03:08 AM UTC
G 'Day 'Roo,

Came across this in the 'Reviews' section of the site. Question; Was this vehicle used by the Aussie's? It would seem like something you fellas would use, but ya never know!

Also, it doesn't look like it would that hard to scratchbash, and upsclae it to 1/35th.
What do you think Mr. TruckBugger?

Tread.
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Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 03:09 AM UTC
Oops....sorry, I forgot the pic.



Tread.
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Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 02:09 PM UTC
I don't believe we've ever used the 1 tonner Land Rover mate.
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Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:46 PM UTC

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G 'Day 'Roo,

Came across this in the 'Reviews' section of the site. Question; Was this vehicle used by the Aussie's? It would seem like something you fellas would use, but ya never know!

Also, it doesn't look like it would that hard to scratchbash, and upsclae it to 1/35th.
What do you think Mr. TruckBugger?

Tread.


hmmmm sorry tread wrong again. Another British one. On the question of scratchbash it would not be hard to do but this is one I will leave to you Tread.
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Posted: Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 08:41 AM UTC
Howdy guys,

Was doin' a bit of ref-surfing, and came across some neat pics. The one below is for our 'Aussie' members.
It supposedly depicts Australian troops getting oriented on the M3 lend-lease vehicle.



Not anything exciting....but it's Aussie.

Tread.
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