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GAZ-51 Ludowe Wojsko Polskie
Today I'd like to show you the model I finished couple days ago. This one is very important to me as it's the vehicle in which I learnt to drive and then I used it extensively in the army, 1966-1968, and also when I was a civilian truck driver in the 1970s. The GAZ-51 and its licensed Polish version, FSC Lublin-51, were the most fun to drive of all vehicles I've driven in my whole life. I have a lot of great memories about this truck.
That's why I built this model. It just reminds me years of my youth. The model is from GPM 322 and is VERY difficult to build. You have to use some putty and paint the entire model to make it look acceptable. Some parts didn't fit properly, there were also some small inaccuracies. I did what I could and in the end I think the result is not that bad. Scale 1/25
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Zenon Last edited by Zenon1947; 04-24-2020 at 09:23 AM. |
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nice job nice truck well done
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Good model as always but suspension seems to be set a little too high.I remember those trucks being a bit lower and much easier to get into than Star 25.Is that model painted ?
My father drove various models of Star trucks (mostly dump trucks) but once in a while I got a ride in a Lublin when I was little.I still remember smell of wood,gas,oil and cigarettes in them. In my hometown we had army storage parking lot-they had rows of those trucks in many different configurations from auto cranes to ambulances.They were all scrapped in late 80s.Too far gone to sell and make running. |
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Wonderful model, Zenon!
I like that you have a personal connection with this truck. I have fond memories of the U.S. Army M35 and M211 2 1/2 (deuce and a half) trucks of the early 60s. I also remember a civilian 1949 International Harvester 1 1/2 ton stake and platform truck with no brakes and no synchromesh transmission that I drive in the summer of 1959 at a fishing lodge in Canada. Don |
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Thank you rifleman, Butelczynski and Don.
Butelczynski, yes, the suspension is a bit higher than in real vehicle. That's the inaccuracy in the model's design. It's just one of those things you can't predict and correct before gluing parts together. That's also the reason why I said the model is very difficult. Really, there's nothing more difficult than 1/25 trucks in my opinion. Ok, maybe the locomotives are more difficult but I've never tried them simply because they're not interesting to me. Now the question about the paint. I said it's painted but not directly. Thought it's quite obvious with the statement quoted below and the photos. Quote:
Especially I remember the US6s. Back in 1960s the winters here were really cold and also very snowy. The weather conditions were just awful. And what I remember about the US6s is that they never failed in these conditions while the Russian-made trucks often couldn't start their engines. Studebaker US6 was such a great truck. I have lot of good memories with it, just like with GAZ-51. Among the greatest vehicles I've driven there's also an early Land Rover. I can't remember what model exactly it was but I remember it was short two-door, gray color, and it had headlights behind the grille. They were donated by UNICEF and I used them in Kolumna Sanitarna. I was delivering Polio vaccines to the local villages. The Land Rover was a really good off-roader and also a very reliable vehicle. You could get anywhere with it.
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