All my 1:76 SAS figures gathered for a picture. All of these were handpainted by me. Model vehicles include: Trauma Team car, Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), Patient Transport Service (PTS) Ambulance, Urgent Tier Ambulance and x2 Mercedes Benz A&E vehicles
I recently shared a number of my 1:76 scale Scottish emergency service models. In response to my pictures, someone kindly linked me to a website where I found these 3D printed figures. Depicting both an Ambulance crew with patient and trolley and Scenes of Crime Officers with a “victim” and PC figure.
These figures came unpainted which enabled me to paint the Ambulance crew into the old Irish Green A&E uniform of the Scottish Ambulance Service, with little dots of blue and white on the arms and chest for the star of life and NHS Scotland badges. The SOCO’s are in white PPE suits with light blue boot covers and surgical masks and dark blue nitrile gloves. Our victim wears a bloodied leather jacket, jeans and red Converse - I was proud of getting a tiny white line below the red 😂. Finally the female Strathclyde Police Officer who I’ve painted wearing the more modern stab vest with blue and silver Battenberg markings.
I’m really happy with how these have turned out. I might come back to them with a better caucasian flesh coloured paint, but I’m still very pleased.
Pictured are three different scenes. At first I decided to shoot the SAS crew at Hospital then a street setting for the murder investigation. After reviewing those pictures I came back to the street scene to get some shots of all of the new figures together. I hope you enjoy seeing them. The Hospital diorama is named Mossend District General Hospital and utilises the Kingsway Models kit build of Holby City Emergency Department from the BBC’s Casualty tv show. The second layout uses a number of kit build buildings to create a basic street scene.
Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services in Scotland are provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), a special Health Board of the greater National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. SAS provides these services throughout all of mainland Scotland and the Islands. Emergency Medical Services are provided by the Accident & Emergency branch, providing Double Crewed Ambulances typically formed of a Paramedic and Technician, but which can be formed of double Tech or Para crews. Single Paramedics in cars, motorbikes or bicycles are Paramedic Response Units, used to provide immediate pre-hospital care to patients, or treating and discharging at scene. Also part of the A&E branch is the Urgent Tier service, using crews formed of an Ambulance Technician and Care Assistant, Urgent Tier convey patients who have been urgently referred to Hospital. The patients General Practitioner can request admission within a 1-4 hour timeframe. As such Urgent Tier vehicles use their emergency warning systems less than standard A&E crews. Due to the presence of a qualified Technician however UT resources can be used as a first responder to immediately life threatening calls.
SAS also has an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (ScotSTAR), bringing Medical and Nursing care to patients as they transfer between Hospitals. Scotland is the only part of the UK to provide fully government funded Air Ambulance services, with two fixed wing and two rotary aircraft. They are assisted by the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance who provide additional cover with two helicopters of their own.
Special Operations Response Team (SORT) provide an emergency response to complex rescue, CBRN, terrorist attacks and other such incidents.
Scheduled Care is provided by the Patient Transport Service, the non-emergency branch of SAS. Using a variety of vehicles from cars, people carriers, minibuses and minibus conversion ambulances, PTS provides transport to and from outpatient clinics, for planned admissions and discharges. Staff crewing PTS vehicles are called Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA). They are experts in moving and handling, whereas A&E crews frequently remove patients from houses using equipment such as carry chairs, ACA’s must be adept at taking their patients back up stairs as well as extrications.
As with the majority of healthcare in Scotland, ambulance and emergency medical services are free at the point of use. Funded by National Insurance contributions made by those in work, Scots are extremely proud and defensive of our NHS. We generally believe that everyone should pay towards the common fund to ensure no-one has their life destroyed by medical costs, as illness and injury are not a choice. Having worked in the NHS and with SAS myself, I have resuscitated a man having a heart attack, conveyed him to Hospital, watched as Coronary Care staff removed the blockage from his artery and left the man sitting up in bed in CCU. Knowing that he will be repatriated to his nearest General Hospital for Coronary Rehab and will go home to ongoing care in the community. That man could take time to recover, safe in the knowledge that no crippling bill or endless fights with healthcare insurance would befall him. That is our NHS, that is why we love it and cannot understand the US system.
All my 1:76 SAS figures gathered for a picture. All of these were handpainted by me. Model vehicles include: Trauma Team car, Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), Patient Transport Service (PTS) Ambulance, Urgent Tier Ambulance and x2 Mercedes Benz A&E vehicles
I recently shared a number of my 1:76 scale Scottish emergency service models. In response to my pictures, someone kindly linked me to a website where I found these 3D printed figures. Depicting both an Ambulance crew with patient and trolley and Scenes of Crime Officers with a “victim” and PC figure.
These figures came unpainted which enabled me to paint the Ambulance crew into the old Irish Green A&E uniform of the Scottish Ambulance Service, with little dots of blue and white on the arms and chest for the star of life and NHS Scotland badges. The SOCO’s are in white PPE suits with light blue boot covers and surgical masks and dark blue nitrile gloves. Our victim wears a bloodied leather jacket, jeans and red Converse - I was proud of getting a tiny white line below the red 😂. Finally the female Strathclyde Police Officer who I’ve painted wearing the more modern stab vest with blue and silver Battenberg markings.
I’m really happy with how these have turned out. I might come back to them with a better caucasian flesh coloured paint, but I’m still very pleased.
Pictured are three different scenes. At first I decided to shoot the SAS crew at Hospital then a street setting for the murder investigation. After reviewing those pictures I came back to the street scene to get some shots of all of the new figures together. I hope you enjoy seeing them. The Hospital diorama is named Mossend District General Hospital and utilises the Kingsway Models kit build of Holby City Emergency Department from the BBC’s Casualty tv show. The second layout uses a number of kit build buildings to create a basic street scene.
Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services in Scotland are provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), a special Health Board of the greater National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. SAS provides these services throughout all of mainland Scotland and the Islands. Emergency Medical Services are provided by the Accident & Emergency branch, providing Double Crewed Ambulances typically formed of a Paramedic and Technician, but which can be formed of double Tech or Para crews. Single Paramedics in cars, motorbikes or bicycles are Paramedic Response Units, used to provide immediate pre-hospital care to patients, or treating and discharging at scene. Also part of the A&E branch is the Urgent Tier service, using crews formed of an Ambulance Technician and Care Assistant, Urgent Tier convey patients who have been urgently referred to Hospital. The patients General Practitioner can request admission within a 1-4 hour timeframe. As such Urgent Tier vehicles use their emergency warning systems less than standard A&E crews. Due to the presence of a qualified Technician however UT resources can be used as a first responder to immediately life threatening calls.
SAS also has an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (ScotSTAR), bringing Medical and Nursing care to patients as they transfer between Hospitals. Scotland is the only part of the UK to provide fully government funded Air Ambulance services, with two fixed wing and two rotary aircraft. They are assisted by the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance who provide additional cover with two helicopters of their own.
Special Operations Response Team (SORT) provide an emergency response to complex rescue, CBRN, terrorist attacks and other such incidents.
Scheduled Care is provided by the Patient Transport Service, the non-emergency branch of SAS. Using a variety of vehicles from cars, people carriers, minibuses and minibus conversion ambulances, PTS provides transport to and from outpatient clinics, for planned admissions and discharges. Staff crewing PTS vehicles are called Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA). They are experts in moving and handling, whereas A&E crews frequently remove patients from houses using equipment such as carry chairs, ACA’s must be adept at taking their patients back up stairs as well as extrications.
As with the majority of healthcare in Scotland, ambulance and emergency medical services are free at the point of use. Funded by National Insurance contributions made by those in work, Scots are extremely proud and defensive of our NHS. We generally believe that everyone should pay towards the common fund to ensure no-one has their life destroyed by medical costs, as illness and injury are not a choice. Having worked in the NHS and with SAS myself, I have resuscitated a man having a heart attack, conveyed him to Hospital, watched as Coronary Care staff removed the blockage from his artery and left the man sitting up in bed in CCU. Knowing that he will be repatriated to his nearest General Hospital for Coronary Rehab and will go home to ongoing care in the community. That man could take time to recover, safe in the knowledge that no crippling bill or endless fights with healthcare insurance would befall him. That is our NHS, that is why we love it and cannot understand the US system.