UP's Jason Pinder confirmed the pilot program Monday when he testified against a proposed Kansas rule that would require two-person crews. The railroad will continue using two crew members on its trains during the test, but officials say this could bolster their case in future negotiations for cutting crew size if it is successful. (AP) - Union Pacific will renew its push for one-person train crews later this summer when the railroad tests out the idea of having a conductor in a truck respond to problems on trains in Nebraska and Colorado. Until better plastic or resin PLA tankers appear, these will have to do.OMAHA, Neb.

That last bit is often overlooked by kit makers, so they are definitely welcome. Two machine guns are included, as well as two sheets of camouflage print decals and one set of uniform insignia. Brindo's tips on detailing older figures is timely. The tanker helmets have poor earphone definition, so looks like M.

The six bodies are all identical, so the saluting guy option looks odd, since his shoulder is not rotated up. The bad news is that the tooling is kind of like a 1970s Tamiya kit. The good news is you can build SIX figures from the box. No more trying to modify the goose-stepping ladies from the Bronco 'Goose-Stepping Ladies' set into tankers! PS: Ok this is a figure question but I'm going to use them with armor so I suppose it's also an armour question eh?įive years later after the last post, Trumpeter releases a dedicated tank crew set. If I only had better photos to go by.ĭid my web search with several variations on 'PLA tank crew uniforms' and 'Chinese tank crew uniforms' - anyone have a better idea?

This shows Russian/Soviet looking helmets but it's hard to make out anything from the size of the photo:Īnyone have any ideas? I have a set of Hornet 'East Asian' heads that I can kitbash with modern Russian/Soviet tanker helmets and I'm sure I can modify the uniforms as well. This shows camo uniforms but caps instead of helmets: I'm comfortable with modifing the Bronco marching sets with other figures to get some infantry.īut I can't find any decent photos of tank crew uniforms! Other than a few sets of marching infantry made by Bronco and some figures with a PLA 'jeep' by Trumpeteer I can't find much of any PLA figures and all of those are infantry. Ok, here's a question out of left field! I've picked up several modern PLA (People's Republic of China) tanks and IFVs.

Modern russian tank crew uniform