Thats a great idea Terry, to have a big footprint area for this, and showing lots of the rarely seen Vietnam era US vehicles. It is all looking great so far. Lots of hard graft going into it, but its really paying off 
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Thanks John, I appreciate that you get what I’m trying to depict with this display, it’s a big undertaking for one person which is why I don’t really participate in any of the group builds here at KM, but I enjoy seeing the awesome talent across the forums.
Cajun 
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Just look at this as a 1 man group build with lots of support
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Evaluation of GOER vehicles in Vietnam report (1967)
https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0805864
H.P.
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Interesting. Good to see how the eval came out.
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I remember seeing this at the Ft Eustis Transportation Museum - it’s the Gamma Goat’s bigger (and uglier) brother.
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It certainly does!
Some may be unaware that Tankograd do an excellent expose of the 2 vehicles:
of their time but fascinating; personally, I’ve only ever encountered the Gama Goat, twice, both times it was in MASSTER.
For the record, the Perfect Scale Modellbau version comes with an apparent MASSTER recommendation:
Pics filched from the PSM site (I’m sure Gerold won’t mind too much).
Price is around 100-odd quid in Sterling; not too punishing for what is after all, a fairly substantial piece of resin, and the pics make it look the business(!) Like I need a softskin distraction to the stash. Sigh.
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I would say that the PSM model is of a “Production Run” vehicle judging from the driving lights and turn signal lights, thankfully I have the Commander models casting which appears to be of an earlier variant based on the “dual” driving lights, traffic horns, and the configuration of the corrugated body skin or sheet metal, so, cool, yeah for me!
Cajun
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I never realised it was big now I have seen it with a crew …
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It reminds me of those big yellow Caterpillar “Earth Movers” I would see when they were grading for a new hi-way when I was a kid, the GOER is essentially the same basic vehicle.
Cajun
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Spent a few hours cutting parts away from their casting blocks and trying to clean up the tires on the GOER, I hate to be critical of a resin cast model but this one I’m finding out is rather crudely mastered, the lugs and sipeing on the tires leaves a lot to be desired . . .
Expect to see a lot of mud on these big meats.
Gaps and poor alignment on the cargo doors are easy enough to fill or at lest disguise but it speaks of the crafters standards . . .
It’s been too blazin’ hot to shove the mower around the lawn (but not too hot to keep the grille fired up 
) so I spent some time laying in more foundation grass on the project . . .
Having to supress the urge to paint the edge of the base with some black paint, still need to chalk in the bare patches and drainage ditches before I do that.
Looking ahead on the M520 I need to find a photo of the cargo area to see what kind of load secureing system was used, flush mount fold down “D” rings or bar over bowl tie downs.
Cajun
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Thank you Frenchy, that’ll save me some time searching through the WWW!
Cajun
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You’re welcome. It looks like M520 walkaround pics are rather scarce…
H.P.
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Yes sir, it’s interesting that it served in Viet Nam but not a lot of photo documentation, the Gama Goat has plenty of pics but nothing to indicate it was in SEA except one source and it’s not crystal clear about it being deployed to USARV troops.
Cajun
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AFAIK, the closest it came near Vietnam was Thailand 
Some XM561 test rigs were sent there for trials in 1962 and 1965 :
More info : https://www.vought.org/special/html/sgamaa.html
H.P.
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Huuuuge project!
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Yeah it’s a little bigger than an A4 vignette, which would have been sooo much easier, and it’s still not big enough, wasn’t trying to make a statement with this necessarily (go big or go home) but I’ve always wanted to show the mechanics of combat, what does it take to deliver an artillery shell to it’s target . . . or maybe it’s just an extension of a childhood dream to have the ultimate Army playset. 
Cajun
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I’ll go with the second idea!
Ken
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