Jeroen van der Ven Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 I'm working on an Austin K2 Auxilery Towing Vehicle from de English Natinal Fire Service. Several of these vehicles were used afther the war in Holland. They were called in Dutch "Bellewagen".The first will be a "Bellewagen" in use in the Hague by the English troops. The other one will be the version as it was used by the fire department of Pijnacker. The model is bases on an Bedford type O from ADP / Artmaster. Jeroen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 looking good, what scale are they? Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen van der Ven Posted November 29, 2010 Author Share Posted November 29, 2010 They are scale 1:87. I took the size from an Austin that was rebuilt as a bus. Jeroen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 That a small scale, lots of fiddling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen van der Ven Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Two new pictures. The left will be the NSF version that drove in The Hague, the other one will be the civilian version from Pijnacker. I have to wait for better weather before I can paint the models.:embarrassed: Jeroen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I'm working on an Austin K2 Auxilery Towing Vehicle from de English Natinal Fire Service. Several of these vehicles were used afther the war in Holland. They were called in Dutch "Bellewagen".The first will be a "Bellewagen" in use in the Hague by the English troops. The other one will be the version as it was used by the fire department of Pijnacker.The model is bases on an Bedford type O from ADP / Artmaster. Jeroen I thought the "Bellewagen" referred to the K2 ambulances supplied after/during the war. I had no idea that the fire tenders were also called that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen van der Ven Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) No, the Bellewagen was always the Fire Tender. It was called afther the bell on top of the cabine. I knom that some Fire Tenders were rebuild as ambulances, besides the Austin K2 ambulance. I just read that afther the war 250 vehicles were bought by the Dutch Goverment, 124 of these vehicles were Bellewagens. In the next three years there were another 28 Bellewagens bought for the Fire Departments. Some of the Bellewagens were rebuilt as bus, lorry or ambulance. There is a list of al Bellewagens in the Netherlands, but it is not compleet. Some fire enthousiast made a compleet study about this type of fire tender. Jeroen Edited December 13, 2010 by Jeroen van der Ven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Beautiful work. Can you stick something in to give and idea of the actual size of the models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen van der Ven Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 A picture with centimeters next to the model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 You must have steady hands! :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen van der Ven Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 The "Bellewagen" is finished. The grey one drove in the summer of '45 in The Hague. I'm not sure if it is exectly like the original, but there was one with NSF markings and dutch licence plate. The other one is from the fire brigade Pijnacker. I had no pictures from the back, probelly I have to chence it some time. I'm planning to make for both vehicles a trailer pump, but that wil also take some time. Jeroen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 :wow: very, very nice :bow::thumbsup::clap: Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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