Just for you, Wayne!
Meal, Combat Rations in… meal, combat rations out. 1/72 scale latrines complete with “waste elimination operations” in progress. Not shown are the figures on the final dio who’re, well, keeping the operations well “agitated.” LOL!
On the original fire base, the latrine for the 155mm battery got blown downhill from the battery’s position by a Chinook sling-loading in rounds and propellant charges and was “adopted” by the infantry occupying the perimeter fighting positions. Was reported to offer a “commanding view” of the surrounding terrain! LOL!
And since we’re on the subject of engineer support, this is a scratch-built 1/72 scale M450 dozer next to a small dump of barrier supplies (concertina wire, pickets, etc.). Even after FSB Ripcord was fully occupied and in operation, an engineer squad was part of the base command and tasked with continuous improvements.
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That is the proverbial “Provo’s Privy”! LOL!
I cannot imagine how much the contractor was paid to build that palatial ode to the throne of thrones. Simply magnificent!
For years I have thought that this was my own little wishlist. Thanks for all of you letting me know that others share the idea that these would be worth building. Means a lot to an old engineer. Wayne
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I was MI, so I almost never even saw any engineers. But right after I got out of active duty, I hooked up with a civilian group that did OPFOR for the US Army. We dressed up as East Germans and MILES gear and fought small groups out at Fort George Meade or Fort AP Hill. Got to see the engineers in action at Meade when we (a platoon sized element) fought a Special Forces company out in the woods. Engineers came out with one scoop truck and built us an L-trench with a roof and camouflage in about an hour - sweetest little ambush point you ever saw. We were ‘killing’ SF troops up and down the hill for hours until some Green Beret Lieutenant snuck up on top of our emplacement and killed us all. Anyway, I’ve admired the engineers ever since.
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Have/ had a couple of buddies that were Seebees. The one closest to the cherry picker in the fifth picture almost looks like one of them. Wayne
That Eimco was a strange cat! I would love to see a kit of that! Wayne
As a life long civil engineer, made the decision when I was 10, you are not alone. Combat engineering, civil engineering and logistics have always been more interesting to me than MBT’s. As the hobby has changed and technology has made kit development faster/less expensive it is good to see manufacturers offering what might be construed as kits with marginal sales potential. I think the future can only get better in this arena. What Hobby Link out of Vietnam is doing is truly spectacular. Hopefully this will help to drive the plastic injection models to market as well.
Tim
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“An Eimco 103MC (M64) crawler with bulldozer attachment, serving with 11th Engineers and photographed at work improving Highway 561 near Con Thien on June 28, 1967. The 103MC is powered by a 208bhp GMC Model V-6914 six-cylinder twostroke diesel engine. Typical fuel consumption when working is six US gallons per hour.”
Another one
Marine Corps engineers in Vietnam :
https://www.keymilitary.com/article/building-blocks
H.P.
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Yeah, as far as I know the Marines were the only ones who ever used them. Sitting on the front of that thing to run it must have been really weird! Wayne
Sure looks like one axle of this dump truck is airborne:
My earlier comment started niggling away…and I just couldn’t help myself:
Dear Lord, what have I done?!!
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Wait a minute, somebody actually makes a kit of that thing?
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Oh yeah!! Arrived today - all resin and at first sight well cast and should be simple enough to build; 'might be just the sort of change that one needs - as discussed elsewhere on this forum, re “burnout”, losing the modelling mojo etc etc.
Not chaep and I had to sell my wife but just couldn’t resist it (she’ll be fine, by the way, just fine).
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Hey a man’s gotta have priorities.
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Caterpillar D4, 1941 model, buzzing about on a field
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From my Dad’s Cruisebook.
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