1:35 Vietnam diorama: Car breakdown beside the rice field

I concur with all the above plaudits, an outstanding dio, but just one thing: I can’t seem to make out many antennae - or is it my eyesight (as discussed elsewhere on this site!)

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I hasten to add that this observation is not to carp for the sake of it(!)

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Very well done diorama, Christian!

The water effects due to the movement of the water as the M113 is going through it looks really good. Very good diorama overall

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The extended driver controls were real, I’ve seen a couple of photos (never saw them in any of our units in real life). Pretty sure they were a local modification, theory being you wouldn’t be “in the box” if you hit a mine. Of course, you were now totally exposed to small arms fire. I wasn’t in a mech unit, so can’t say how common this mod was.

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nice work.

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Very Nice!

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Awesome diorama…the billboard signs and weathering look great, as do the multitude of green and brown colors.

You have really captured a “photo snapshot” of how Vietnam looks like with your scene, and it’s nice to see that modelers still build complex and large 1/35 Vietnam-era dioramas.

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It’s not directly an ambush.
But, the driver is an VC with a AK47 in the car. He transport goods for the VC, then the wheel cracked down.
You can see it in this picture.

Regards Christian

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Great work, cheers!

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I have to look about the picture. I thought I saw it in a magazine about the vietnam war. And when I saw the HobbyFan figures, I want them.
I will take a look, hope I find it in the cellar.

Regards Christian

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You’re completly right. Only the M88 has an antenna.
But I forgot the antennas on the M113. :astonished:
Will check it, maybe I can put antennas on.

Thank’s for your comment. :hugs:

Regards Christian

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This one?

This comes from a page about the 25th Infantry Division.

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Again, my compliments on an excellent diorama, the scenery does invoke the “feel” of the roads I remember in the Saigon-Cu Chi area, and the vehicles/figures are spot on. Interesting the photo above of the extended controls on a track, we worked with 1/5th often, never saw one. Just proves the adage “never say never”. Nice build, and it triggers discussion…a win-win…

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Another one

The driver and gunner on an M113 in the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, move through Ho Bo Woods in October 1967

H.P.

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This ist the picture I SAW IT before. Thanks.
So I didn’t need to search.

Regards Christian

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Wow that’s an even better pic! I’m still curious as to how the gas/ brake pedals were used from up top.

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Thanks, I’ve seen that one before too, but don’t remember where … I do recall that this modification is mentioned in Simon Dunstan’s Vietnam Tracks, but it’s not actually shown in there, IIRC.

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A few more examples…

On a M132

H.P.

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In the top two photos they look like ape hangers.

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It’s actually just a gas pedal. There is no brake pedal. The laterals are the brakes. You pull the back and slow/stop one or both tracks, depending on which side you pull, or both to fully brake/stop. That is how it turns too. Slowing one track by pulling the lateral back allows the other track to still move at the faster speed and it turns the vehicle.

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