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GMC PD3701 Silverside Bus 54,95 €

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:45:10 +0200

Vomag Omnibus 7 OR 660 54,95 €

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:00:14 +0200

The German automobile manufacturer Vogtlandische Maschinenfabric AG (VOMAG) was founded at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, when an increasing number of various engineering factories and enterprises turned their attention to the production of the new "self-propelled carriages". During the next 10 years VOMAG built several successful trucks, and from the beginning of World War I, secured considerable orders from the military for the delivery of three-ton trucks to the army. However with the end of World War I and the catastrophic consequences of the peace treaty articles pertaining to the capitulation of Germany, VOMAG, like many other enterprises under military direction, was unable to make military equipment any more. After laying off most of their workers in 1918, VOMAG was re-registered as VOMAG Lastkraftwagen GmBH Munchen. The direction of the new company was the production of municipal transportation for passengers: first of all omnibuses (buses), and trolleybuses. Already by the third decade of the 20th Century VOMAG had quickly become one of the leading companies in its industry, and its products were used not only in Germany, but also exported to several countries in Europe and even to the Soviet Union.
At the end of the 1920s VOMAG constructed a huge bus for those times, on a three-axle chassis with a total length of more than 6 meters. Its 150 horsepower engine allowed the bus a top speed of 55 km per hour, and a passenger capacity of 60 people.
In 1935, after a number of modernizations, appeared the VOMAG 7 OR 660 bus with a new original streamlined body and an even more powerful 160 hp engine. After the coming to power of Hitler, in conditions of accelerating militarization of production, the enterprise started securing more and more orders for the production of dual purpose vehicles. VOMAG buses were under construction not only for the needs of the municipalities of German cities, but also by order of Deutsche Reichspost, the German post service, which right after the onset of military operations was quickly merged with military transport and delivery services. No wonder that from the beginning of the war many "post" buses including VOMAG vehicles, were quickly taken over for the transportation of troops from one part of the front to another.
During the period from 1935 to 1939 VOMAG managed to make several thousand of various types of bus, including a large number of the heavy three-axle VOMAG 7 OR 660. However from the beginning of World War II, its production was completely reoriented towards the construction of semi-heavy artillery tractors. And only after the end of war when industrial production had been laid waste by the bombing of Allied aircraft, was it possible to restore VOMAG again, albeit for a short period, returning to the manufacture of civilian vehicles.

1 - Vomag Omnibus 7 OR 660, Deutsche Feldpost, early 1940th.
2 - Vomag Omnibus 7 OR 660, Deutsche Reichspost, late 1930th.

Omnibus Type B "Ole Bill" 14,95 €

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:09 +0200

At the beginning of the 20th century, at a time when Great Britain was the world's preeminent superpower, and its capital London was the hub of the world's political and economic activity; due to the rapid pace of urbanization of large cities, the challenge of transporting groups of people with a completely new means of transport had arisen, as traditional horse-drawn carriages (the so-called "cabby") could no longer cope with such a task in its entirety. Thus, a fundamentally new kind of transport appeared - the "omnibus", or bus in the modern form of the word. Already in 1910, the LGOC (London General Omnibus Company) was established, soon occupying a dominant position in the field of transportation. Already in 1911, at his request, designer Frank Searle sketched out the design of a vehicle, which for many years was to become the "business card" of the city on the Thames. It was a twostory bus with stairs between the floors, which enabled a significant reduction in the size of the vehicle while still able to transport a large group of people. The new bus was named "Type B" and was exploited with significant commercial success in subsequent years.
The First World War, which broke out in the summer of 1914, immediately gained momentum, forcing a search for a means to rapidly move large groups of soldiers as close as possible to the points of contact with the enemy. The military leadership immediately became interested in the possibility of using omnibuses, and soon the first Type B vehicles had been delivered into military service. In total, from October 1914 to March 1915, 300 Type B buses were requisitioned, which were forced to exchange the streets of London for the shell-cratered terrain of France. Former civilian drivers from London were now obliged to become military drivers, and the work of the buses, which consisted in the rapid transfer of groups of soldiers to the front, was quite dangerous given the possibility of shelling by the enemy, and therefore the carriage of troops was carried out mainly at night.
The first buses to hit the Western Front were still in their civilian colors of bright red, and plastered with the advertisements of London newspapers or large stores, but soon they, like other military vehicles, had to wear uniform - all their surfaces were repainted in the protective color of the Khaki, the windshield was removed because it could not withstand bad roads and quickly shattered, the side windows were replaced with wooden boards, and a canvas covering was fitted to the open second floor. An omnibus could carry 34 passengers (16 on the first level and 18 above), but its capacity for the purposes of military use, of soldiers equipped with full ammunition, was only 24 to a bus; however that figure was a great improvement on what was possible with horse-drawn carts.
One of the first operational uses of the Type B was for the transfer of troops to the town of Ypres, where on October 21, 1914, one of the most significant battles of the Great War took place. In the next four years, omnibuses were used with unending intensity, sometimes seven days a week. Apart from the transport of ersonnel, they carried ammunition, food and medicine to the front line, and in the first postwar months after the signing of the Truce, they went back to permanent civilian work. In the spring of 1918, when Germany attempted a massive counteroffensive along the line of the Western Front, Type B buses, along with other types of omnibuses, carried at least 211 000 soldiers, with the total mileage covered by them amounting to over 1 million kilometers.
After the end of the First World War, a large number of omnibuses returned to their home town, and the LGOC redeemed them for the second time from the army, and once again they began to dominate the streets of London as the main vehicle of public transportation. One of the Omnibuses, which received the semi-official name"Ole Bill" (in honor of the cartoon character of the British soldier created by the artist Bruce Bairnsfather), was on February 14, 1920, inspected by His Majesty George V during a demonstration of the techniques of war, and in subsequent years it took part in numerous memorial parades for anniversaries of the Great War, and in 1970 it was transferred to the Imperial War Museum in London, where it is still preserved as one of the most significant artifacts of the "War, which was to end all wars".

FWD Model B 3-ton US Army Ammunition Truck 12,50 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:09 +0200

Decals for building the following vehicles are included:
1) US Army, 1919.
2) US Army, Western Front, France, late 1918.

Ford V8-G81A Special 44,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:15:28 +0200

Opel Blitz Omnibus W39 12,50 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:09 +0200

Decals for building the following vehicles are included:
1) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, 1st Panzer Division, Ukraine, November 1943.
2) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, propaganda car, Red Army loot vehicle, 1st Ukrainian Front, summer 1944.
3) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, 2nd Panzer Regiment, 16th Panzer Division, 10th Army, Salerno, Italy, September 1943.

Horch V8 Type 830R 44,95 €

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:55:08 +0200

Horch V8 Type 830R - Lightweight army vehicle developed in 1934 from the civilian Horch 830. The basic design was greatly simplified for the needs of the army, but the most important structural elements were significantly reinforced to meet military requirements.

From 1934 to 1937, a total of almost 4,500 examples of this type were produced, which were widely used from the early days of the Second World War up to and including 1943, when the vast majority of them were lost in the rough conditions of the Eastern Front. The Horch 830-R is considered to be the first example of the Kubelwagen vehicle type, which was widely used by the German army during the war.

Britischer Panzerwagen Pattern 1920 Mk.I 12,50 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:09 +0200

A history of this armored car would require a great many pages, devoted to its lengthy and varied service in the British armed services; and it is connected, oddly enough, with aviation. At the beginning of WWI the British military directed their thoughts to the need to protect newly built airfields against their being suddenly overwhelmed by enemy troops. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) suggested to the Admiralty that a special armored car be developed, which could not only execute defensive functions but also as necessary support army units in combat, and fulfill communication and transport duties. Soon, the Air Department of the Admiralty made overtures to a firm in the motor industry, Rolls-Royce, which had been producing cars for about ten years.
In 1906 this firm introduced the highly successful Silver Ghost, which continued to be built by the factory while the War was already under way. Admiralty engineers developed an original simple armored superstructure for the Silver Ghost chassis, which appeared to be successful in all respects. In December 1914 the first three cars were issued to the army. A rotating turret fitted with a Vickers machine gun was installed on top of the armored body. On the whole the design appeared to be just what was wanted, and soon the motor company received a new order for additional cars.
With the onset of physical fighting at the Western Front soldiers became interested in the armored car. However, the idea of sending the car into the battle area, which featured impassable mud for kilometer after kilometer, was intimidating from the very beginning. The fragile suspension of this passenger car with an armored shell would never be able to survive in these conditions. The active military service of this car in the trench war was over before it had even begun. However the War quickly spread from Europe to other regions of the world. The Middle East, and Africa, where the war also began for the possession of the German colonies, were the most promising for the application of the fast and reasonably well protected armored car.
Instead of guarding airfields in the territory of Misty Albion, six newly formed squadrons of the Royal Naval Air Service were sent to the hot and dusty deserts of North Africa and to the Turkish province of Gallipoli, where the fighting had already been going on for some time. These cars were found to be highly useful weapons, and even the end of the Great War did not put a full stop to their career. In 1920 they underwent their first modernization. And four years later, another one. Elegant on a passenger car, but worse than useless for a military armored car, the spoke wheels were exchanged for ones with full metal disks. The form of the turret was changed for an open topped one, and instead of a Vickers gun, a Boys anti-tank rifle and a Bren light machine gun were fitted. It was also equipped with a smoke grenade launcher.
In the 1920s these cars continued to take part in armed service: in the colonies of Great Britain they co-operated with aviation, repressing local revolts by unarmed colonial tribes; and even in Europe employment was found for them, during the period of civil war in Ireland, when the British government delivered several armored cars to the Irish government to counter the attacks of the Irish Republican Army. These vehicles conducted their active service until 1944 and were retired only due to the complete wearing out of their working parts.
One of the cars passed into the hands of one of the best-known eccentric historical figures of the 20th Century, Lawrence of Arabia: his armored car was used by him during his guerrilla actions and other adventures in the Middle East. In due course the Thirties came to their end and there was again a smell of war in the air. There was extensive modernization in Europe, and also in the armor of the British Army. At the time about one hundred Armoured Cars remained in service in the colonies. The majority (about 70) of them were in North Africa, where they soon faced Italian troops. Some more were in India, carrying out raids in the territory of neighboring Burma.
Today, some original armored cars of this type have been preserved in different countries of the world. They have been quite valuable private property for a long time now, and remind us of those distant times, when the first blundering motorized constructions, weakly protected against an opponent's firearms, enabled rapid development of a military technical idea and led to the appearance of more modern mobile weapons in the future.

Decals:
1) Armoured Car Pattern 1920 Mk.I, SV-4996, Royal Tank Corps, Derbyshire, used for anti-invasion patrols on 1939. This AC preserved at our days in the Bovington Museum.
2) Armoured Car Pattern 1920 Mk.I, "Ajax", No.1 (AAC) Sqn, Egypt-Iraq, 1940-1943. This AC preserved at Hominstone Museum, UK.
3) Armoured Car Pattern 1920 Mk.I, Irish Cavalry Corps, Ireland, Blarney, 1941.

E-3 Sentry AWACS 34,95 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 07:05:11 +0200

Cessna O-2A Skymaster 48,95 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:09 +0200

Douglas C-133A Cargomaster 32,50 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:25 +0200

Vickers Super VC10 K3 Type 1164 Tanker 27,50 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals to build the following aircraft are included:
1) ZA149/H, No101 Sqn RAF, Brize Norton, early 1990s.
2) ZA149/H, RAF, 1991.

British Armoured Car Pattern 1920 Mk.II (with Sand Tyres) 12,50 €

Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:09 +0200

Decals to build the following vehicles are included:
1) No.1 ACC, No.4 Sect, RAF, Western Desert, Egypt, 1942.
2) "Vulture", No.1 ACC, No.1, 2 or 3 Sect, RAF, Iraq, 1936.
3) "Tigris", No.1 ACC, No.4 Sect, RAF, Iraq, 1941.

Lockheed C-141B Starlifter 29,95 €

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:20:10 +0200

Decals to build the following aircraft are included:
C-141B Starlifter, s/n 65-0257, US Air Force, 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March AFB, CA, mid 1990s. This aircraft is on display at the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum.

Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus Model W39 Ludewig late 40,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals for building the following vehicles are included:
1) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, WH-341709, unknown unit, France, mid 1941.
2) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, WH-265451, Eastern Front, unknown medical unit, early 1942.
3) Opel 3.6-47 Blitz Omnibus, WH-751731, Afrika Korps, Tunisia, early 1943.

Dodge M-37 3/4 ton 4x4 Cargo Truck 44,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals for building the following vehicles are included:
1) M37, US Army, Vietnam late 1960s.
2) M37, RCAF, Korea, 1953.

BL 8 Inch Howitzer Mk.VI 32,50 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:25 +0200

Fairchild AC-119K Stinger 24,50 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals for building the following aircraft are included:
Fairchild AC-119K Stinger, USAF, s/n 52-5910, 4413rd Combat Crew Training Squadron, 1st Special Operation Wing, April 1969.

Lockheed VC-140B Jetstar 14,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals for the construction of the following aircraft are included:
Lockheed VC-140B Jetstar, aircraft number 12492, aircraft used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan, 1963-1988.

Douglas AC-47D Spooky 14,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:05:22 +0200

Decals for building the following aircraft are included:
Douglas AC-47D Spooky, s/n 45-0927, USAF, 4th Special Operation Squadron, 14th Special Operation Wing, Nha Trang AB, South Vietnam, September 1968.