Part 24: Fire engine!
I have some favorite "hate objects" in model railroading. Among other things, in terms of cliches ....
For example, I would not like to have a church on the layout,
as there is one in every old track book!
The same applies to fire trucks .... Scenes of burning buildings with smoke generator and fire trucks with flashing lights ..... Not for me thanks .
I happened to see a kit that almost converted me!
A-(nother) Jordan-kit! An Ahrens Fox fire engine!?!.
I just had to buy it ..... But I couldn´t allow myself to paint it red!
Since my layout is depicting a big city in New England during World War II, one can imagine that there were variations on the theme.
Then I had an idea, because both the model year on the fire engine was a bit old, and it was wartime, it could be "normal" that they used older equipment as rescue vehicles.
In my case, I checked around and saw a lot of references to older material which was painted and served during the war. Several used by the U.S. Navy, and painted intermediate blue!
Said and done! That decided it.
A U.S. Navy fire engine, stationed in the harbor as an emergency vehicles in case of bombing or other sabotage (or even an explosion in the nearby "Hughes Industries" ).
This is the result:
I´m satisfied B)
Edit: I made a period picture of it:
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