Looking forward to this and those others as you describe.
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Thanks for the link. Can I buy these printed from anyone?
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Interesting. Not even a yellow beacon light?
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Not unless you know someone near you with a 3D printer. Cults3D sells and offers files to print, but is not a printing service.
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Ooh! I’ll buy that in a heartbeat. 
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Ok, looks like I need to get into 3D printing then 
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Think someone on shapeways made one
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I do hope that AK Interactive can make 1/35 emergency vehicle lightbars and dome beacons. The translucent/transparent red, blue, yellow, and orange paints are available from several paint manufacturers, but the emergency vehicle lightbars, vintage or modern, have never ever been made in 1/35 scale.
The trick is that 1/35 roofs come in many widths, so AK Interactive may have to make the same lightbar in various widths to satisfy the width of the vehicle’s roof. But with 3D clear printing or clear plastic technology, that shouldn’t be a problem, I assume.
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Patience 
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Again, patience
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A couple of weeks, at the most, as they are already receiving orders from shops.
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I was thinking more along the lines of…
I can build the M1028 into this and add my chase vehicle, an M1008.
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Awesome. Did not know the United States military uses all sorts of commercial light trucks for a long time in large numbers. Wonder what these models will cost in the United States. Will not pay $80 US for one.
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These trucks were the place holder vehicle between the Jeep and the HUMWV. There were still few floating around in 2002 when I got to my first unit in Korea I was signed for the contact truck version.
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Yeah. Had no idea. Wikipedia has a decent article on the various United States Army light truck programs. Looks like they got around, too. Lots of foreign users. Used in all sorts of conflicts. There are easy paint schemes. There are hard paint schemes. There are colorful paint schemes. Model looks pretty easy and includes masks. These are winners if the price is reasonable.
From my point of view, these will make a great addition to any armor collection because they provide the viewer with something to compare scale against. It’s kinda hard for someone like me to get an idea of how big a tank really is, even with a scale person standing next to it. Put one of these trucks next to a tank and things will make more sense to me. They are all over the place. I have one in the driveway.
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I got out of the Maryland National Guard in 1993 (blown knee meant I couldn’t pass the PT test anymore). I think it was my penultimate drill that I got to test drive the first HMMWV my unit (629th MI BN) got, and I really preferred my old CUCV Blazer.
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My first driving mission was taking my CW3 and PSG for Camp Gary Owen to Camp Casey in Korea and for some reason they wanted to take the contact truck, and I still remember the screams when I went over the railroad tracks and both of them hit the celling,
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