Does anybody know how this one was constructed ?
I can reproduce 90% what i see on this painting ,but would like more details if possible
We See a lot of 55 gals. barrels on the left and some planks to the right
If your refering to the one tank atop the TOC bunker, it knocked everything down to the floor. There was a basement/radio room under it. How it was constructed I didn’t see, or just don’t remember. I was there about forty minutes max. There were two or three antennas mounted on telephone poles still intact. The hooch walls were similar to most places in they had sand bag walls with a tin roof. Maybe a three foot gap between the sand bags and the tin roof. The gap was screened in with tarps that could be dropped in heavy rain. Suspect the TOC bunker was just sandbag walls with some kind of a roof. The concrete was poured by Navy Sea Bees or Combat Engineers, Probably Sea Bees, as they did a lot of work at the other base camps for them. The one thing about A101 that surprised me was how flat it was. Everything around it was hills and mountains! It sat on about a 10 degree grade.
In that era and with SF Strikers, the weapons seen were a mixture of Korean War and modern equipment. They really liked the old Browning 30 caliber machine guns and the BAR. You also saw quite a few M2 Carbines and M1 rifles in use, yet you might also see an M60 used right near it. They used whatever they could lay their hands on. Lots of M72 LAW's and even a Thompson sub machine gun every once in awhile. Recon teams have been known to use a highly modified RPD, instead of the M60.
gary
Got an email about a month ago from a US label the one with the colorfull box covers (not naming names ) praising my skills and comparing it with the work of a master builder ,and wanting to buy some of my bunkers and produce them and even send the copies to me .
I said i am really flattered and i was willing to sell but had other offers to, So i replied lets talk money (normal thing to do right ?)
2 weeks later still no reply.
So i E-mailed him again and got a mail back .
With the following …
What kind of money would you be looking for each bunker ?
I replied, it all depends which ones you want.
Still have to hear back from him! .
So yesterday i thought… why don’t you get a ingrowing toenail and your line of bunkers look shitty anyway !
As these were my first Sandbag projects, and i think I know now how to do them .
I sold all the previous models to a fellow modeler here in the Netherlands .
Cash in the pocket and clean work bench ready for another winter project, stay tuned.
This thread is closed ,I will make a new one in time .
Maarten
I am disappointed. The project had a lot of potential, and here is such a “surprise”
Hey Maarten, it ain’t April 1st, so knock of the jokin, eh?
I can’t see you stopping in the middle of a great run, cash or not. The suspense is killin us. It’s like a bad horror movie, you can’t leave us hangin! HA!
Cheers, Ski.
New project,
the guys trapped in the basement may still be alive. Pretty sure they made it out. I don’t remember seeing a machine gun mount on the one or two burn outs, but it’s also almost 53 years since then , and 52 and a half since I visited the place. Believe it or not the First Air Cav might have photos, as they used Khe Sahn a couple times as a jumping off point. Pretty sure the Marines still don’t want to talk about A101 to this day.
gary
WOW!