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I have photos of one of the NYPD units from my trip last year. I will get them to you. As for the FDNY, the units they received are on a different Freighliner chassis than the Code 3 models. I think it is a no brainers. However with all of the grief C3 gets with the "inaccuracies" of the models, I can't say I blame them for not making the FDNY version.
If I ever get the time I plan on doing both version for my shelf. That will guarantee Code 3 will do them just as I finish the models.
I do recall a photograph of the FDNY LDV with the more rounded Freightliner front end. I must have forgotten viewing that photograph in all the excitement.
But why no NYPD LDV. It is a "NO BRAINER", so producing a 1/64th version should have come natually for the Management of the "Other" company. We must assume that the lights are on, with nobody home. LOL
Here is a link to the LDV site with about thirty plus different paint schemes on sold units. They even show the FDNY LDV, plus one for Fort Worth, and a couple more cities that the "Other" company has already issued model fire equipment.
I'd be happy to see ANYTHING come out of Code 3 that's police-related. The ESU trucks and the LAPD LDV have been the grand total of Code 3's commitment to restore a "police line," notwithstanding the late, lamented Orlando's statement at the 2004 Firehouse Expo that Code 3 would do one police release per quarter in 2005 (the total - zero).