David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 20 September, 2024) EDITED This 1:72nd-scale kit of the GMC CCKW 353 U.S. Army 2.5-ton 6×6 cargo truck is a far better kit than I had anticipated. Thanks! I would like to place it in a queue with Tamiya’s 1:48th- and 1:35th-scale kits of the hardy lorry as they pass along a winding road through the European (Italian? French?) countryside. Perhaps an earlier Airfix 1:72nd-scale kit of a Battle Of Waterloo Farmhouse (04738) (actually, I would endeavour to incorporate several, scattered over the area) might serve as a backdrop in the middle distance. Years past had I begun a generally similar diorama, albeit all in 1:72nd-scale, combining two of these Farmhouse arrangements, with an assortment of U.S. Army vehicles, including a couple of Willys Overland M-32A U.S. Army ¼-ton 4×4 general purpose light utility trucks (Jeeps), a pair of GMC cargo trucks (I had wanted an entire column of twenty--or more!), an M16 half-track with a Maxton Mount Quad 50-calibre machine-gun, all steadily approaching an outer stone wall . . . .
It is a decent kit, I only really remember building the body and cab, back some 10-15 years ago. I do fancy building a larger scale version now. It sounds like a good diorama you have planned up, I was in the process of building a WW1 trench diorama of 3 Mk4 tanks crossing a German trench, but that slowly drifted to the back burner.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 20 September, 2024) EDITED
This 1:72nd-scale kit of the GMC CCKW 353 U.S. Army 2.5-ton 6×6 cargo truck is a far better kit than I had anticipated. Thanks! I would like to place it in a queue with Tamiya’s 1:48th- and 1:35th-scale kits of the hardy lorry as they pass along a winding road through the European (Italian? French?) countryside. Perhaps an earlier Airfix 1:72nd-scale kit of a Battle Of Waterloo Farmhouse (04738) (actually, I would endeavour to incorporate several, scattered over the area) might serve as a backdrop in the middle distance.
Years past had I begun a generally similar diorama, albeit all in 1:72nd-scale, combining two of these Farmhouse arrangements, with an assortment of U.S. Army vehicles, including a couple of Willys Overland M-32A U.S. Army ¼-ton 4×4 general purpose light utility trucks (Jeeps), a pair of GMC cargo trucks (I had wanted an entire column of twenty--or more!), an M16 half-track with a Maxton Mount Quad 50-calibre machine-gun, all steadily approaching an outer stone wall . . . .
It is a decent kit, I only really remember building the body and cab, back some 10-15 years ago. I do fancy building a larger scale version now.
It sounds like a good diorama you have planned up, I was in the process of building a WW1 trench diorama of 3 Mk4 tanks crossing a German trench, but that slowly drifted to the back burner.