The four digit #’s that you are enquiring about are battalion ID numbers. Each Marine Bn had it’s own 4 digit number. Where you can find out which number belongs to which Bn is beyond my pay grade. Only reason I became aware of this is because in 1983 I was with Wpns Co. 2/4 at the time. I was in the heavy machine gun Pltn. The Staff NCO at our Bn motor pool informed us that we had the wrong unit I’d #’s on our gun jeeps (M151A2s) and that we needed to change them.
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Welcome to Armorama! Useful info for sure.
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Thank you. Tried to chime in several times to pass on info. But, I could not get pass the log on phase.
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Welcome to the site yeah
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Wow! That’s excellent. The camo job is perfect. Do you plan on adding any weathering? I like it just as is I have to say. Now I want one…..very inspiring!
What did you use for the base? It really presents the model SO well. And the label too.
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That is a very nice looking model and well presented on that simple base! Nice one, John. Beautifully painted.
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Welcome aboard shower shoes. 
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There are a couple of walk-rounds online but they are of vehicles in privte ownership so I’m always wary of some of the detail. Fuel lines however are pretty universal.
Here’s one: https://www.mod-sales.com/stock/gama-goat
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And the hassle trying to load photographs here sucks.
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Thanks John, I appreciate it. 
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Thanks guys - comments much appreciated.
A few answers:
I prefer subtle weathering rather than heavy weathering on my models - it is actually present in the photos but probably impossible to pick out because I went too subtle 
The base is an old one I’d made for a different project that never got finished. It’s a photo box frame with styrofoam inside and a relatively thin skim of filler over the top, painted suitable earthy colours. The grass is a model railroad product - 15mm long static grass. I used an old model railroad dodge as well. If you place a whole load of pva (elmers) glue spots onto a flat surface (like baking parchment or the backing paper of a self-adhesive sticker), you can then take clumps of the static grass in tweezers or your finger and thumb, and stick them vertically into the glue. Leave the glue to dry and hey presto you have a whole bunch of tall grass clumps.These can then be peeled off the backing paper and added to whatever base you are building in whatever density you require.
Maki - me and figures don’t always have a happy relationship. I like to add one beside a model where I can - but I haven’t found anything that ‘speaks’ to me just yet.
The weathering is there, just not easy to spot - around the wheel arches and the lower edges of the vehicle. I normally use a lighter weathering shade (Tamiya Buff) but this time I went with Tamiya Khaki and it doesn’t show up as much.
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Nicely done!
For anyone wanting to do the detail in the wheel wells:
Another view of the fuel lines from a slightly different angle:
Another detail missing from the kit:
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Just drag-and-drop them straight into the message. Or, on devices that don’t support that, click the “image” icon and don’t upload at full size.
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