Just curious…do you intend to make any new modern Vietnam models? Many TravelVlog YouTubers have visited Vietnam this year and found that it’s a very interesting country…they liked it a lot…some even moved back there because it’s their home country.
For US Army guntruckers as depicted with “Mother’s Worry”, either US Army baseball-style caps or boonie caps would be more correct, at least for the M60 gunner.
That pic he posted as a reference for the figs in another thread explains why the M60 gunner is wearing a USN/USMC 8-point cap. The pic is of a USMC guntruck, not US Army. The M60 gunner is either USN or USMC.
It also brings up another interesting point. I have never seen nor heard about USMC guntrucks in Vietnam. It makes sense that they had them though. More interesting models to build.
Actually I wore a seebee cap when I was there, unauthorized, but I hated the baseball caps and traded a seebee for it in Saigon. E…R was my nickname, stood for easy rider, cause I was always talking about bikes! Wayne
“Gooooood morning, Vietnam!
This is AFVN coming to you live from the heart of the combat zone — where the coffee’s hot, the humidity’s hotter, and drivers dont want bangggg at VC zone”
“Today’s headline, folks:
Rolling out of the steel jungle, roaring like a bad hangover you can’t shake — the legendary M35 Gun Truck ‘BAD DREAM!’”
“That’s right, the same road warrior that kept convoys breathing and ambushers praying is now available in model-kit form.
Fully armored, .50s smiling, miniguns spinning like a DJ on R&R.”
“So if you’re one of the Boomers who remembers what a real pothole feels like — or you just miss the sweet perfume of diesel and gunpowder — this kit is calling your name louder than a first sergeant at 0500.”
“Build it, display it, salute it.
Because BAD DREAM didn’t just roll —
it owned the road.”
“And now, back to the hits — here’s a little number for anyone who ever rode shotgun behind steel plates and prayed the next bend wasn’t a welcome party!”
AFVN Radio — keeping the good times rolling, even when the road didn’t.”