Showcase Miniatures New Pumper Truck

[cfritschle]

Showcase Miniatures has announced a new N scale pumper truck based on the Business Class M2.  https://www.showcaseminiatures.net/n_scale/n_scale_vehicles/140.html

Production of the prototype M2 trucks started in June 2002, and the styling has been unchanged for the past 19 years!   

[peteski]

NICE!

[cfritschle]

Very nice, and the kit includes an etched stainless steel grille!  The grilles are molded into the hood on the earlier versions of the Showcase M2 trucks that I have.

[pmpexpress]

Guessing this would be a Pierce Manufacturing M2 truck conversion.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Guessing this would be a Pierce Manufacturing M2 truck conversion.

Probably a good bet. I think the ladder truck was a Pierce as well.

I'm going to see if I can order the chassis and cab of the ladder along with this kit to make a custom chassis pumper which would be more at home in MA. You don't see a lot of commercial chassis models here due to the size limits of the existing fire stations.

[cfritschle]

Neville and Dan,

You are correct, the email announcement that Walter and Debbie sent out states the truck is "Pierce based." 

[wbvrail]

Daniel...

That is a conversion we will be looking into and will likely be made into a kit.