Let's See Your Military Car Loads

Here's one that was pre-assembled, but may give you ideas.

Added three videos of some of my military loads, what type of military loads are you looking for?

@Ulus Ekerman posted:

Wow, fantastic military train.  Where did you get the tanks and other military loads??

@FrankRazz posted:

Wow, fantastic military train.  Where did you get the tanks and other military loads??

Tanks are sold by MTH, Jeeps are solidos, and Oshkosh ones are from Sword diecast.

Corgi hardware on various K-Line, Weaver and Lionel flats.

And in the lead the Lionel UP Desert Storm Tribute.

Here's a fighter plane on its way to a museum.  If you think the plane looks familiar, it's one of those K-Line "airplane kits" you see on the tables at train shows for $10 to $20.  The flatcar is one I found laying forlornly on a train meet table, just looking up at me silently crying, "I've got a lot of good layout running left in me!"  Five bucks later, that flatcar was heading home with me for this kitbash project!

Great stuff!

Peter

@Pat Shediack posted:

Here's a fighter plane on its way to a museum.  If you think the plane looks familiar, it's one of those K-Line "airplane kits" you see on the tables at train shows for $10 to $20.  The flatcar is one I found laying forlornly on a train meet table, just looking up at me silently crying, "I've got a lot of good layout running left in me!"  Five bucks later, that flatcar was heading home with me for this kitbash project!

I am definitely going to try and build a flat car with a plane on it. Thanks for this!

Greg

@Ulus Ekerman posted:

Added three videos of some of my military loads, what type of military loads are you looking for?

Although I model only steam and WW1/WW2 flat cars, I enjoy looking at the modern stuff as well. Thank you for sharing! That was an awesome video.

Greg

@Doug W. posted:

Corgi hardware on various K-Line, Weaver and Lionel flats.

And in the lead the Lionel UP Desert Storm Tribute.

Thanks for sharing, these are great!

Greg

Two of my flat car loads that a member of the Detroit Three Railers built for me. On display in my little town.              He knew I was a Huey mechanic, Cobra crew chief,  and the little vehicle in the front looks like the real one in my garage. The M-60 is part of the Calvary unit I was assigned to. There is another Huey flat car in the display case next to a Cobra AH1g.

Thank you Andy and crew.

Clem

Something a little different.  I built this to include in the Bush 41 funeral consist.  He flew the TBF Avenger in WWII so I thought it would be a fitting salute to his service.

H-34 hulk in transit to Davis-Monthan.  John

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@Engineer-Joe posted:

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From 2012 with no new replies allowed.

Anyway, here is a load of He destined for the Navy's blimp operations in Norfolk, VA (when I get a layout built):

OK, remember you asked for it....

3 Jeeps, Tamiya and Bandai

Sherman in Free French colors, Bandai

Soviet SU-85, old Tamiya

Soviet BA-64B scout car x2, Tamiya, 37mm AA gun, Ace

Italian Semovente SPG 75mm and command tank, Gasoline

Italian AB 41 and German Sd.Kfz 222, Tamiya

German V2, Pegasus

Soviet SU-122, Tamiya

German Sd.Kfz 232

German Panzer IIIL and IIB, Tamiya

American 2.5 ton trucks, Tamiya

German Wespe 105mm SPG, Bandai

Soviet JS-2 (IS-2), Tamiya

German Schwimmwagen, Citroen 11cv, and Kubelwagen, Tamiya

American M8 Greyhound, Tamiya

German Stug IIIB, Tamiya

Soviet T-34/76, Bandai

German Krupp Protze trucks, Tamiya

British Valentine, Bandai

Soviet KV-2, captured and modified by the Germans, Hobby Boss

Soviet SU-152, Bronco

British Churchill VII, Tamiya

American Sherman, Hobby Boss

This represents little less than half of the cars that I've made over the years.  The others are still in storage.  I think that if you look hard enough, you can find a really varied supply of models to place on flatcars to get the variety you seek.  Thanks.

The Shadow...OK, remember you asked for it....

Then drops in the mother load of all military load posts!!! Amazing collection. Seeing those all running together would be impressive!!!

humvees

M1 Abrams

M2 Bradley fighting vehicles (awaiting  camo paint)

M992 Faasv and M109 paladin (awaiting paint)

Here are some of my projects; I’ve been told by a few here on OGR that my models are grossly incorrect, for example paint colors incorrectly placed or used and other issues like inconsistencies in timelines, a 1941 tank load next to a 1942 version. Anyway I don’t really have the time or for that matter care to get that thorough they are after all just toys and the kids adore the train when they saw it run at the shows. I’ve packed it up and shelved the project over advice from some of these guys here but I still enjoy it very much. And seeing this thread and all the wonderful models it renewed my interest a little, thanks guys!

Aurora Long Tom 1/48 kit on an ancient Westbrook cast flat car (1950’s)

many many kit builds, tried extremely hard to keep everything 1/48 and avoid the 1/50 stuff but I had to fudge a little.

running on a friends layout, the High Plains Route which will be on the layout tours next Summer at the O Scale National Convention in Denver. 3 railers welcome! One of our sponsors is the RMD TCA.

shot this on my module outside added some smoke!

my favorite are these Long Tom guns.

Trying hard to locate military equipment was part of the fun.

finding enough scale flat cars in o scale not so easy a task.

lots of kits, several years of building kits.

I’ll add a few more

couple more military trains

A friends train

Couple of more military trains I ran at Fullerton railroad day's, Hope we will be able to run in the future.

Here are some of my Military on flat cars.

Thanks for sharing everyone

The one thing I wasn't real happy about is that the barrel was fixed in that one position. It should have been down and locked into the carriage.

Thank you to everybody who contributed; I learned a lot!

Greg

Greg,

If you need help locating a kit for a specific prototype, please let me know.  I have almost 100 kits waiting to be assembled and can probably help you find what you’re looking for.

Price

An oldie but a goodie, from seven years ago here.  Still got the entire train although I have not set it up and run it in a while.

Big Kahuna is still the pride of my Army train cars and locos.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...war-train-army-train

@The Shadow posted:

Greg,

If you need help locating a kit for a specific prototype, please let me know.  I have almost 100 kits waiting to be assembled and can probably help you find what you’re looking for.

Price

Hey Price,

I have been on a Gaso.Line buying and building spree. If you have any kits for sale, shoot me an email. There are a lot of models made by them that I am actively looking for.

Regards,

Greg

@Lee Willis posted:

An oldie but a goodie, from seven years ago here.  Still got the entire train although I have not set it up and run it in a while.

Big Kahuna is still the pride of my Army train cars and locos.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...war-train-army-train

That Schnabel tank is awesome!

Here we have my Lionel 1922010 Sherman Hill set with a few other flat cars added.

@Erik C Lindgren posted:

Here are some of my projects; I’ve been told by a few here on OGR that my models are grossly incorrect, for example paint colors incorrectly placed or used and other issues like inconsistencies in timelines, a 1941 tank load next to a 1942 version. Anyway I don’t really have the time or for that matter care to get that thorough they are after all just toys and the kids adore the train when they saw it run at the shows. I’ve packed it up and shelved the project over advice from some of these guys here but I still enjoy it very much. And seeing this thread and all the wonderful models it renewed my interest a little, thanks guys!

Erik,

I spent 20 years in the Air Force and observed many times when equipment, vehicles and even aircraft had incorrectly applied paint or paint that faded or paint that oxidized.  When I was assigned to the 380th Munitions Maintenance Squadron at Plattsburgh AFB NY, we had two and a half ton munitions trucks purchased in various years that had different shades of Air Force blue paint.  We had two "bread trucks" for hauling maintenance crews, one built in 1969 and the other in 1978, that were usually parked next to each other in our parking lot.

Your models look great; don't let any nitpicker tell you differently.  I've found most of the nitpickers are still facsimiles of real trains as their models have electric can or geared motors, plastic figures, if any, on board, and so forth, so their models are, to be kind, a step or two removed from reality, too.