The fire station (Ste.-Marie-sur-Mer 5)

La caserne. Fire department equipment shed. 

The old fire station - cheap mock up 

Ford T Ambulance WWI - metamorphosis into a truck of Ste.-Marie fire brigade. 

First color sample. 

2.900 ccm -> 14,7 kW 

Testing AK Real Colors Markers. 

 

interim report 

transformation into a truck of the fire brigade 

Soon there is a lot to do 

Colour, lamps, steering wheel ... 

... and the equipment 

Modelling in the garden ... 

... gradually it looks like a fire engine. 

interim report 2 

first I have used AK signal red, but it looks more like strawberry - not a fire engine ... for me. 

... so I have used Revell # 36 carmine. 

There are rails to mount a motor pump. 

Now hoses are needed ... 

... corrections and more detailing are necessary. 

Second vehicle - first color samples 

The helmets are kitbashed - donator was ICM # 35632 (German Firemen WWII). French helmets were another type, e.g. there was no neck leather.  

The former ambulance car (left) and the fire truck (right). A fire truck similiar the model of ICM was proven in France! Sgt. G. Ryden had taken a photograph of the fire truck in a depot (Is-sur-Tille, in the near of Dijon) in the year 1919. The photo is property of an image agency.  

next: further details - e.g. a fire bell 

some corrections were done 

 

Building the fire department siren - using ferrules - 

... and the bell. 

 

sirène d'alarme - field studies in France. The manufacturer may be PAKITA. 

 

Alarm in former times: ringing the bell ... 

... and now: the siren. 

And that's the latest. 

Colours are drying. 

Still looking too much like a German Fireman - now I've bought French heads with the Adrian Helmet (Hornet & Wolf).