New photos: Type 1 Ho-Ha and USN Dodge WC6

[PacificWind]

New photos of my Pacific 1/25 scratch projects: Type 1 Ho-Ha(Luzon, Philippines 1944) and US Navy Dodge WC6(Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1941).

I built these models some time ago, completely from scratch. Type 1 Ho-Ha and Dodge WC6(USN version) have always been my favorite military vehicles of WWII so I really wanted to get them somehow. Both are extremely rare, not only the real examples but also the scale models.
Although there're still some WC6s owned privately or in museums, there's is no surviving example of Ho-Ha. Those which survived the war, had been modified into garbage trucks and bulldozers to help rebuild Japan and then these vehicles were most likely scrapped.

Whole detailed history of both Ho-Ha and WC6 can be found here:
Type 1 Ho-Ha - Tank Encyclopedia
https://www.ewarbirds.org/redball/1941dodgewc6.shtml

Here're also links to my original threads, there're entire "work-in-progress" reports and some more pictures.
Type 1 Ho-Ha (scratch project)
US Navy Dodge WC6 (scratch project)

[Don Boose]

Great models. Great images!

Don

[rockpaperscissor]

Outstanding work.

[CMDRTED]

they look great. I have to say even with the Japanese running gear she still looks like a lot of German influence.

[CMDRTED]

never mind I read the reference article, of course there was German influence, sorry!

[Wyvern]

Super craftsmanship.

Wyvern

[Vinalssergio155]

They look magnificent Kacper!

[PacificWind]

Thank you all!

And yes, Ho-Ha was clearly inspired by SdKfz.251. I wonder how many parts were taken directly, without any changes, from the German counterpart. To me the strangest thing in Ho-Ha is the steering wheel and driver's seat on the left side. Almost every WWII Japanese tank, truck and car had the driver's position on the right side. I say almost because there was also a Ho-Ki APC with driver's position on the left side. But once again, that vehicle was probably inspired by another German design, Steyr RSO.