Hellas-Express

To avoid too many topics, I'll lump all other vehicles into one, starting with cars.



Moving on, some vintage Mercedes trucks:


Some buses - not sure if these are actually OSE-owned or run by a local operator for them:

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Christo will probably accuse me of going off-topic whith this, but I couldn't resist adding it - a beautiful 1960s Volvo P122 advertising the restaurant/bar/dancing outfit at Athens Rouf yard, which consits of locomotive Ma1002, the CIWL diner 4107, and a Breda 2nd class coach plus several old vans.

Christo will probably accuse me of going off-topic

Photo Balkanmodels: April 1990 behind the SOM Shed at PES Thessaloniki. The OSE Renault 1000 is just visible in the foreground amongst all the other wrecks. There is also visible by the tree a pile of metal hooks that belonged to the Greek Army for the transportation of meats in wagons.

christo.

Did the Army use fridge vans for the meat transport??

Yes they did. But apparently the hooks belonged to them and not OSE.

christo.

...and one thing that jonmood has not modelled yet...

Great shots Tim, and a most interesting topic!

I go on with Christo's Renault 1000Kg, also named Goelette at some countries. The screen shots are from the great video Andy has uploaded at his Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0p2msMnxo4, from the 1988 test run of the DB V221 in Greece.



The same type in blue livery, a great shot from the SFS archives that Jason has posted at the facebook.

A modern OSE Citroen Jumper mini buss at Thiva, 5 April 2013.

Ah, so that's what was lurking next to the Unimog at Inoi!

I think that Goelette in Jason's photo is probably still in the original green, it's just very sun-faded or there's a colour cast on the photo. Can you read the number in the original photo?

This is the photo Jason uploaded, I guess when he is here we'll know if he has a better resolution
about the color, you might be right, but it might also had been repainted in blue-gray at some point, to match the other OSE road stock.

Regarding truck modelling, Kibri made the Mercedes vehicle but with a double back axle, I guess it should be feasible to cut it down a bit, and Rietze (thanks Christo) make a van from which the chassis could be used for the other truck. Brekina (thanks Panagiotis) make a nice Lada Niva in red, Ref.27200, find it on Fleabay: