Oxford Diecast CMP Models
 

Oxford diecast are producing a lot of superb ww2 era 1.76 diecast models , including Scammel Pioneers , Tillys , Matadors , MW's , Bedford OY, etc at very cheap prices .
Latest release is a CMP which looks excellent especialy in the RN blue.

Forgot to add the photos! great models probably about £7 when they hit the shelves . Its not RN but civvy in blue . Light AA body ?

Strange grilles...
 

...on the military ones. I have an Oxford Landrover which is excellent, but I am not so convinced about all their military models.

Chris

Hi Chalky,
LAAT bodies on all of them, I'll have to keep my eye out for one. I bought an MW a few weeks ago made by them, rather nice.
Keith

Definately a LAAT the giveaway is the Bofors gun right next to it in the catalogue :)

Dave

Our local bus company United Automobile Services had a CMP LAAT painted red as a breakdown truck for years, into the 70s at least.
It always stood just inside their garage entrance at Loftus but I never saw it move . I think it may have been preserved.
This was the only CMP i saw in my youth :)

CMP Models
 

I was looking to buy a few but they are incorect in the sense that they do not have the observer hatch on the passenger side and the roundel on top is centered as it should be on the driver's side.

Too bad there was not attention to detail.

Bob

Hi Bob. Are you saying that these LAATs are wrong because they don't have a roof hatch or cupola? In the past I have owned four of them i.e. two F30 and two F60s, and none of them were so fitted.
Rhett.

Just cut out of piece of plastic and glue if you want an observation hatch...simple. A more fundemental error by Oxford is on Bedford OY where fuel tank and spare wheel are reversed, but even then just detach turn around and re-glue. Oxford Scammell is a little weird though !

Roof hatch was optional on CMPs and if not fitted the roundel was centred. You can just make it out in this photo, I have some more obvious examples but can't seem to lay my hands on them right now.

For the price these are excellent and nice to see a company producing early war British and Commonwealth vehicles , instead of endless Yank and German stuff
It will soon be possible to motorise a 1940 British Expeditionary Force Battalion :)

In addition, the CMP with the roundel on the roof has the formation and unit signs reversed.

Roundels and hatches
 

Thanks for setting me straight guys.

I have indeed now oberved CMP's without observer hatches .

What can i say , i like hatches . They are like sunroofs on sports cars .

Except they are available on WW2 ,historic, fun , rare and amazingly durable trucks . Made in Canada were we can't open them because it is bloody too cold 2/3 ' of the year !

Cheers !

:cheers:


Robert

Roof Rondels to Hatch or not to Hatch
 

Hi All

I've been reading the thread with interest about CMPs with and without observer hatches. In the back of my mind I remember seeing photos of Pat 12&13s in North Africa which showed the no hatch version with rondels. As well as photos of Pat 12 with hatch and rondel in the middle and then one with no hatch and the rondel over the driver. Just took me a while to find them, many of these photos have previously been posted on MLU.

All this goes to show that there were many many interpretations of the instructions for the air recognition symbols.

Cheers Phil