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1 hour ago, Kiha66 said:

Thanks, it was built from the finest dumpster diving Okinawa has to offer!  Technically we were supposed to be a non combatant transport ship, and not certified for ammo transport.  (then the crew would get bonus hazard pay)  But most of the trucks were loaded up to the roof and covered, so who knows what was in there!

One thing Gavino is missing, large battalions of soldiers "standing by to stand by" 

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(That giant pallet was all of their duffel bags, which the loader almost dropped off the pier!)  

 

I agree. I'm looking for model soldiers who aren't in "fighting positions". If you see any let me know. 

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yeah all the 10mm wargaming figures are usually "battle" poses for war games, not the standing by to stand by! poser and shapeways may be the only way on these, nother project though!

 

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I'm having the similar trouble finding WW2 German army personnel for a T-TRAK module I'm thinking of building to display my 'Leopold' K5 rail gun outside its bunker being inspected by the top brass.

 

If anyone knows of any? Major N scale figure makers Prieser and Merton being German seem to shy away from that type of thing.

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On 12/25/2017 at 8:08 PM, cteno4 said:

yeah all the 10mm wargaming figures are usually "battle" poses for war games, not the standing by to stand by! poser and shapeways may be the only way on these, nother project though!

 

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What's the leaning curve for making figures with poser? Have you tried it?

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I have not used it in years, but it was pretty easy to pose the figures. Skinning the with clothes was more work, but that was years ago! 3d does have a learning curve and requires practice as it a thing that had lots of details you tend to loose if you don’t use.

 

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On 12/25/2017 at 4:23 PM, Kiha66 said:

 

One thing Gavino is missing, large battalions of soldiers "standing by to stand by" 

 

These would probably qualify. Unfortunately they're the wrong scale.

 

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Man does that bring back memories from grad school at Berkeley. Every year our Dept got the top biochem student in China admitted into our grad program so we usually had 4 or 5 mainland China students at any time. I had a tv on my lab bench (old b/w unit I picked up for $5 for late night tv waiting for gels to finish or doing long time courses, but the only tv in the building, but then again I had fish, treefrogs, lizards and toys on my desk) and there was a crowd around it for the last couple of days of this. I remeber the very grim look on the Chinese students as they had a lot of friends there in the protest and they were sure it was going to get very ugly. Just pre web, Email and cell phones so they could only watch and have no communications. The guy in my year was one of the main student leaders a few years before and president of his class. He was well aware of the whole situation. It was a bold stand, but also a sad day.

 

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I finally got around to buying these. The Tomytec "Jpanese Defence Force" figures. All in non-combat poses. Most of them are directing traffic or just standing around. 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, gavino200 said:

I finally got around to buying these. The Tomytec "Jpanese Defence Force" figures. All in non-combat poses. Most of them are directing traffic or just standing around. 

 

 

 

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They look great!

 

Now that I have a closer look at the figures, it looks like they are the same mould as the construction workers... (https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10402495)

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12 minutes ago, JR 500系 said:

 

They look great!

 

Now that I have a closer look at the figures, it looks like they are the same mould as the construction workers... (https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10402495)

 

That's so weird. Their poses make more sense as construction workers. I was a bit puzzled by them. But I like them. And deployed soldiers are often essentially glorified construction workers, when there's no shootin' going on.

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This "F-toys" 1/150 "chemical fire engine for airports", re-painted, would make an excellent water cannon. I'm going to try to track it down.

 

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1368&bih=776&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=okNyW6XmA9KUsgXaqK4o&q=truck+1%2F150&oq=truck+1%2F150&gs_l=img.12...82811.82811.0.84458.1.1.0.0.0.0.97.97.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.img..0.0.0....0.Z1WYpwYfawo#imgrc=SFlp7fvYJ3L8HM:

 

Edit: Lots available on the market for cheap. Just ordered on. If it looks good in person and I can do a good job painting it, then I'll buy a little fleet.

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1 hour ago, gavino200 said:

Wow!, an actual purpose build n-scale riot police water cannon. I'm shocked!! This price is insane, but at least I know it exists!!

 

https://www.amazon.com/track-collection-secret-Cruising-Ranger/dp/B01KBOI38K

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/トミーテック-TOMYTEC-TRC05-ザ・トラックコレクション第5弾シークレット-日野・クルージングレンジャー/dp/B00NODTNJO/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1534223209&sr=8-11&keywords=tomytec+pump

 

A bit cheaper (still not cheap).  Though you need someone to take delivery in Japan and forward to you.

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3 hours ago, gavino200 said:

This bus with siren/flicker lights on top would be a good for transporting riot police, or an emergency police deployment.

 

http://www.xl-shop.com/xlshop/pages/FT-601206/f-toys-1-150-japanese-transport-vehicles-1-piece-

 

These buses are highly sought after... I want one of those too, since they look like those mid-sized commuter buses that are often used as a community bus or a school bus... But ever since Tomytec came up with bus collection 23, these buses are less sought after since Tomytec makes better quality models overall... But I will still like one! 🙂

 

3 hours ago, gavino200 said:

Wow!, an actual purpose build n-scale riot police water cannon. I'm shocked!! This price is insane, but at least I know it exists!!

 

https://www.amazon.com/track-collection-secret-Cruising-Ranger/dp/B01KBOI38K

 

I have this truck, it's the secret variant from Truck collection 5... Some of the secret variants are quite interesting, I do hope there is a website to list all the secret variants of Tomytec series !

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9 hours ago, chadbag said:

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/トミーテック-TOMYTEC-TRC05-ザ・トラックコレクション第5弾シークレット-日野・クルージングレンジャー/dp/B00NODTNJO/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1534223209&sr=8-11&keywords=tomytec+pump

 

A bit cheaper (still not cheap).  Though you need someone to take delivery in Japan and forward to you.

 

Thanks, yes, that's a reasonable price. But this is clearly a repainted Firetruck. I need to search to see if anything like this is used by riot police in Japan. The "airport chemical fire truck" looks a lot more intimidating and riot ready. I might try to copy the blue with white stripes paint scheme. 

 

Edit: Some good reference photos

 

Riot police bus

http://www.policecar-photos.net/picture/show/2035/Tokyo-Riot-Police-bus

http://www.police-car-photos.com/picture/number1592.asp

 

Riot police command van

http://www.police-car-photos.com/picture/number1740.asp

 

Riot police water cannon - It's similar to the Tomytec truck. Looks like a fire truck. 

You can see it in this google image search window, but if you click on the image the story has been changed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+water+cannon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin7caM3ezcAhUhnq0KHdZBDBEQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=943#imgrc=Tn-PEy0kOIzVxM:

 

This one is similar but from Hong Kong. Can see better detail

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/01/28/hong-kongs-new-water-cannon-police-trucks-dont-make-eyes-water-bill-will/

 

Here's one in action during a World Cup riot drill

https://www.gettyimages.co.jp/detail/ニュース写真/japanese-riot-police-use-a-water-canon-against-mock-protesters-ニュース写真/1537436#/japanese-riot-police-use-a-water-canon-against-mock-protesters-at-an-picture-id1537436

 

Rescue team truck - differenc color scheme

http://www.atlas-web.com/keisatu/policetype/rescue-b.htm

 

Japanese riot police on foot - some re-painted historical figures might work

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_riot_police-2.JPG

 

Not Japanese but an interesting concept

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/this-dystopian-riot-control-truck-is-the-vehicle-of-the-future/

 

Interesting general page on riot control vehicles and their history

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/01/power-enforcers-anti-riot-police.html

 

This awesome page has the full collection

http://www.atlas-web.com/keisatu/keisatuhome-b.htm

 

 

The riot police come prepared with as special toilet car!

http://www.atlas-web.com/keisatu/policetype/toire-b.htm

 

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