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!)
I hasten to add that this observation is not to carp for the sake of it(!)
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
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.
nice work.
Very Nice!
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.
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
Great work, cheers!
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
You’re completly right. Only the M88 has an antenna.
But I forgot the antennas on the M113.
Will check it, maybe I can put antennas on.
Thank’s for your comment.
Regards Christian
This one?
This comes from a page about the 25th Infantry Division.
Three simple ways if you’re on a computer rather than a phone or tablet:
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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…
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.
This ist the picture I SAW IT before. Thanks.
So I didn’t need to search.
Regards Christian
Wow that’s an even better pic! I’m still curious as to how the gas/ brake pedals were used from up top.
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.
In the top two photos they look like ape hangers.
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.