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Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #675 on: May 17, 2021, 09:31:02 PM »
Nice work on those machine guns.

I assume that 3/4 ton truck is 1/56, how does it look against the figures and 1/50 scale vehicles?

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #676 on: May 19, 2021, 11:44:22 PM »
Nice work on those machine guns.

I assume that 3/4 ton truck is 1/56, how does it look against the figures and 1/50 scale vehicles?

It's Warlord, so I think it's 1/56. I've 'jacked' up the back wheels a bit. Here it is with an Empress mini.


Offline carlos marighela

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #677 on: May 20, 2021, 08:00:11 AM »
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M101 for the reasons you mention.

Oh come on, let’s have the L5 pack howitzer as well. Works for Australians in Vietnam and Argentines in the Falklands.


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Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
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E agora seu povo
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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #678 on: May 20, 2021, 08:06:15 AM »
Ash,

If you ever fancy a bigger version of that truck, Solido do a really nice 1/50 one. I’ve cut one up and modded it to look more like a Vietnam era M37 with plasticard and aluminium sheet rear mudguards. Just need to add a bumper bar and winch. It's a relatively easy conversion as the cab and the chassis unscrew from the cargo bed, which is the bit that needs replacing, so no hack saws required.

That said, I like what you have done with the Warlord version.

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #679 on: May 20, 2021, 08:37:16 AM »
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Oh come on, let’s have the L5 pack howitzer as well. Works for Australians in Vietnam and Argentines in the Falklands.

Highly likely to happen  ::)

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #680 on: May 20, 2021, 08:58:51 AM »
Good man! Oh and please thank the Empresses for despatching my order.

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #681 on: May 20, 2021, 09:12:54 AM »
Ash,

If you ever fancy a bigger version of that truck, Solido do a really nice 1/50 one...

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #682 on: May 20, 2021, 10:23:47 AM »
Still a bit of work to go (one of those on again off again jobbies) but this gives you an idea of what you can do with the baseline model.

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #683 on: May 20, 2021, 10:27:04 AM »
Good man! Oh and please thank the Empresses for despatching my order.

I have passed on your thanks  ;)

Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #684 on: May 20, 2021, 12:05:32 PM »
@ Carlos:  That's looking nice.

On mine I need to take the vents off the bonet, make a stering wheel, raise the body higher on the front wheels, build out the rear wheel arches, build up the rearsides of the bakkie...

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #685 on: May 23, 2021, 05:48:22 PM »
Oh come on, let’s have the L5 pack howitzer as well. Works for Australians in Vietnam and Argentines in the Falklands.
Highly likely to happen  ::)
Yay!
What would tow them?

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #686 on: May 23, 2021, 08:22:13 PM »
Highly likely to happen  ::)

Yay!
What would tow them?

International Trucks, of which, I believe one is in the works.  They were, on occasion, placed inside M113s when establishing new FSBs as an operational security measure. They could be towed by a Land Rover but that wasn’t a standard practice in Australian Army use. The main method of deployment in Vietnam was by chopper and that’s where they came into their own. The Yanks were green with envy because it was the only available gun that could be lifted by a Huey.

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #687 on: May 25, 2021, 05:13:25 PM »
Useful to know Carlos. Thanks.

International Trucks, of which, I believe one is in the works.
Good news.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #688 on: May 25, 2021, 09:41:06 PM »
Sorry to borrow your thread Ash...
International Trucks, of which, I believe one is in the works.
Is that the one that looks like a CMP?

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Re: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc
« Reply #689 on: May 25, 2021, 11:16:54 PM »
Sorry to borrow your thread Ash...Is that the one that looks like a CMP?

 Sort of... Here’s a Vietnam era Mk 3 Inter/ Acco

 

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