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This month, more modeling with members of the Chesapeake Model
Fire Engineers and the Metropolitan
Miniature Fire Apparatus Association. As they do every
year at the Firehouse Magazine fire expo,
they populated the upstairs lobby of the Baltimore Convention
Center on the Saturday of the show. Check out some of these
amazing kit- and scratch-built apparatus:
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Jim Church - Norfolk, VA
Vintage apparatus
1:32 scale
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Jim Clarkson - Lancaster, PA
1948 Mack E pumper, Liberty Fire Company, New
Holland, PA
1:32 scale
Scratch-built, including hood and
fenders carved from solid PVC fence material
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Mel Epstein - Irvington, NJ
Chevy Suburban, Newark, NJ
1:18 scale
Kit-bash of Welly die-cast model
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Will Grow - Philadelphia, PA
Horse-drawn apparatus
1:25 scale
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Will Grow
Half-track, Philadelphia
1:35 scale
Kit-bashed military model based on
actual Philly brush unit
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David Gusky - Bear, DE
Hummer crash truck, Summit Regional Airport
1:25 scale
Scratch-built fire body and details
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Zoli Honeczy - Bowie, MD
Spartan / Supervan heavy rescue, Middle River, MD
(foreground), Pierce heavy rescue, Blades Delaware
(background)
1/25 scale
Completely scratch-built (except for wheels
and tires)
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Joe Horchar - Baltimore, MD
Mack L city service truck built by the late Bob
Pumphrey (January 1934 - December 2003)
1:32 scale
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Steve Lichtman - Mt. Airy, MD
1970 Miller Meteor Ambulance
1:25 scale
Kit-bashed from a Johan ambulance kit,
a resin 1970 Cadillac body, and sheet styrene
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Joe Kisser - Baltimore, MD
Kit-bashed fire apparatus fleet
1:87 scale
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Ed O'Connell - Cedar Grove, NJ
P. T. Cruiser, Birmingham Hose Company
1:25 scale
Maisto die-cast model kit-bashed as
fictional fire chief's car
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Paul Richmond - Boca Raton, FL
Apparatus, City of Troy
1/25 scale
Kit-bashed for fictional city
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Joe Roberts - Charleston, SC
1984 Emergency One, Boston
1:50 scale
Kit-bashed from a pair of Conrad models
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Charles Rowley - West Wareham, MA
1966 Dodge W-300 Power Wagon brush truck once used
by West Wareham, and that the modeler once operated
Completely scratch-built
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Charles Rowley
1937 Seagrave Aerial Ladder, City of Falls River,
MA
1:25 scale
Completely scratch-built
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Bob Schierle - Westfield, NJ
Vehicle fire
1:50 scale
With Corgi Dodge / HCB / Angus crash
truck
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Bob Schierle
1933 Chevrolet high-pressure unit
Kit-bashed, started out as a 1982 Hess truck
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Charles Shultz - Baltimore, MD
Baltimore fire apparatus, including (left to right)
Rescue 1, a BWI crash truck, and the first Box 414
Association canteen
1:87 scale
Scratch-built from hand-drawn plans
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Scott Strandberg - Lexington, MD
Fire Station for Code 3 Collectibles Chief Editions
1:64 scale
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Rob Volkert, Sykesville, MD
Rescue tools
1/25 scale
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Whose name did I misspell? What model I incorrectly
identify? Let me know. And thanks to Ed O'Connell, who helped with this
column.
A version of this column originally appeared at
Code 3 Collectibles.
Copyright 2023 by Michael J. Legeros
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