New Schleich Truck Article: 42004 possible 1/18th use?

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:39 pm

A new truck from Schleich, Article: 42004, this may have possible 1/18th use, would make a great basis for a large technical?

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:42 pm

.....and these items

Birddog · Post by **Birddog** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:47 pm

Looks cool, do you have a link to the listing?

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:48 pm

G'day Birdog

Just found them on the Schleich home page:

http://www.schleich-s.de/english/index.php?lang=2

Birddog · Post by **Birddog** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:51 pm

Cool, thanks for the link. Have to keep my eyes

open for one.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:29 pm

Holy Cow! Those would be perfect for a Tears of the Sun or some sort of covert ops in Africa diorama. Very nice.

kevrut · Post by **kevrut** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:46 pm

I wasn't sure what the measurements would be, so I tried to do the conversion for the truck.

L--11 5/8"
W-- 4 3/8"
H--7 5/16"

Let me know if I'm too far off.

I wonder if the height includes the tailgate.

Nice truck, anyone know if this is an actual existing truck or is it just made up. It looks like something from the 50's or 60's.

Kevin.

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:06 pm

G'day Kev

My first guess was for a 1970's Beford, but it could pass as one of Soviet or Chinese origin.

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:29 pm

I think the building below will make an excellent French style colonial rubber plantation house for the Vietnam Period.

Rowsdower wrote:Holy Cow! Those would be perfect for a Tears of the Sun or some sort of covert ops in Africa diorama. Very nice.

When I first saw it I had the same line of thought, an ideal vehicle for one of the many (and ongoing) African wars, but also with some vegetation camouflage the truck could be used as an NVA transport on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and in and around the I Corps AO.

Morian Miner · Post by **Morian Miner** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:13 pm

I definitely need one of those trucks. Nice find.

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:23 am

For the building it says:
Article size in mm (L x W x H):
540 x 500 x 300

What does that convert to?
Is it close to 1/18 scale?

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:55 am

Spudkopf wrote:When I first saw it I had the same line of thought, an ideal vehicle for one of the many (and ongoing) African wars, but also with some vegetation camouflage the truck could be used as an NVA transport on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and in and around the I Corps AO.

Great for the new Platoon figures if the scale is close!

Post by **aferguson** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:21 am

building is about 21 inches by 20 inches by 12 inches

List price for it looks to be about $150.

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:02 am

Some Schleich is sold @ Target. ... 1:18 farm animals and such.

I don't know about the vehicle or buildings , I didn't see any of those yet , but they do carry some stuff.

ZBEAR · Post by **ZBEAR** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:14 am

The truck looks like a cross between an Unimog and a Pinzgauer.

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:18 am

ZBEAR wrote:The truck looks like a cross between an Unimog and a Pinzgauer.

>>> Yeah ,.. it does , but an older one of course.

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:59 am

Thanks for the heads up Spudkof.

Mark

alf · Post by **alf** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:02 am

Hi,

I first bought 2 of them, but seeing the quality of the stuff I bought the big one and almost the complete collection (minus the truck which look really tiny...but I may change my mind)

Here come Comparaison pics...
Again sorry for the poor quality of the pics, It comes from a video camera.

Schleich 42003

Quality ++++

Playability ++++

Caveat 1: a bit undersized for 1/18

Caveat 2: price (80Euros on ebay and lot more in shop )
Caveat 3 (optional): room

Schleich 30654

My favorite item...P.E.R.F.E.C.T
gonna buy more of them.

Schleich 42014

Schleich 42005

Schleich 42022

useless ?

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:05 am

Alf,
You had it kinda rough with those military rebels, didn't you?

The pics are great! I would have never thought the plantation building was as big inside and out by the other static pic. The other items you show in your pics are really nice - water tower, open shed, big tree.

Thanks for sharing with us!

RED · Post by **RED** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:40 pm

Hey yall!!! The farm house,water pump, and the wind mill look pretty sweet!!! They all would look great in any DIO!!!

---RED---

V2 MAN · Post by **V2 MAN** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:46 pm

Man those look sweet

The plantation house i have thought of 3 possible uses for. 1- a ww2 japanese jungle house, 2- a vietnam period junlge building, and a captured dak africa village house

Ill have to look into those

kevrut · Post by **kevrut** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:41 pm

Great pics. I'd really like to get a few of those trees.

Was ALF warning that guy to watch his head while going through the doorway?

That'll leave a mark!

Kevin.

alf · Post by **alf** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:39 pm

Thank you for the comments, I promise I will do better pics of everything soon.

> You had it kinda rough with those military rebels, didn't you?
yeah... As always It ended in a crate flying to an ATF secret lab...

> Was ALF warning that guy to watch his head while going through the doorway?
NO, NEVER

JamesW · Post by **JamesW** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:19 pm

Toys r us sells some schleich stuff in cluding the building:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

150 bones! is a lot to spend.

Gusthebus · Post by **Gusthebus** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:30 pm

Has anyone found any of these in the actual store at Target or Toys R Us yet?

Small Scale Military Headquarters

New Schleich Truck Article: 42004 possible 1/18th use?

New Schleich Truck Article: 42004 possible 1/18th use?

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Schleich 1:18 stuff

Schleich 1:18 stuff

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