This is a rush post as I took these shots
in 2015 when the truck joined the fleet, but the rest of the fleet is in the storage
pile at the moment, and when I get them out I'll do them all properly, however,
as we seem to be having a Soviet era toy day, today, I might as well clear it
from Picasa!
Probably in the same medium-utility/light-artillery-tractor
class as a 1-ton F/C Land Rover, Pinzgauer or the old Dodge 'Beeps' and I'm
pretty sure the Robur was an East German or Hungarian copy? I think it's a Gaz, but my
recognition manuals went to Winchester and have yet to come back! When I do
them properly I'll Google all the relevant stuff!
Approximately 1:43/1:48th and as well made
as anything in the 'West', better than some, but lacking the finer details of
top-end 1980's Dinky or Corgi the wheels always remind me of those German or
Scandinavian rubber vehicles - something else in the queue . . . with
contributions!
We may have had this shot before?
I know the truck is item 17 from the big
boxed set that also has the ZSU air-portable SPG we saw here about ten-years ago
(item 20, above again), FROG (18, also above) and the Tank Transporter (8) for
which I've found the single-vehicle box. I can vaguely remember jack-knifing
the cab into a smaller space when packing them up! The whole was too heavy to
keep in the box, as it would just drive out of one end as soon as you picked the
box up.
There are 19 vehicles in the set (and some
heavy die-cast figures) and they were all available separately, I have five or
six so far and we may have looked at the 6x6 truck (and copy) already, back in
the day, if not - they will come with the others.
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