Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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Burnsville Fire Truck becomes model for scale model truckKlaus Lassen
General Safety Fire Apparatus
NctSSovpoefmmbneaetrsen 22 loiaaant airre1duit1:g45h AMfSc ·
Hello dear people,
now I am a member of the General Safety group and I would like to tell you a little story. Some of you may be familiar with the Peterbilt 359 Fire Truck. I developed this kit in 1989 for Revell of Germany and came on the market in 1990 as a kit with a size of 1 / 25th.
But this is how the story of this model began. In the mid-1980s, I saw a picture of the Peterbilt Fire Truck from the Burnsville Fire Department in Minnesota on the cover of German Fire Department magazine. I was so enthusiastic about this vehicle, built on the chassis of a Peterbilt 359, which I immediately wrote to Brian Holzer, the chief of the Burnsville fire station, with a proper letter, envelope and stamps. I wrote to him that I would like to build his new vehicle as a 1 / 25th scale model, because I already had the Peterbilt 359 kit, which Revell was selling at the same time. Brian Holzer was kind enough to send me 24 photos including negatives and a drawing of the General Safety Fire Truck. Great!
With that I built an exact model of the Fire Truck in 1 / 25th just for myself. When the model was finished, I wrote a construction report in 1987 for the German model building magazine - Modell Magazin. Revell saw this report and invited me to visit. In 1989 I was allowed to develop my model as a kit and a year later in 1990 I became a permanent employee in the product development department at Revell. I made completely new drawings for toolmaking and my own model was exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1989.
When the first test shots came out of the injection molding machine, I tested everything, assembled models and later also drew the assembly instructions. In 1990 the finished kit came on the market. Revell sent some kits to General Safety in the USA when Jim Kirvida was still an engineer there and later became President of Custom Fire. General Safety later built more fire trucks for the Burnsville FD.
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