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Thanks, Guys. I am glad ya'll can appreciate the thought behind splitting such a potentially large scene into several smaller ones. As I was continuing to prep the figures, I decided that I wanted to include the figure carrying the tour jacket over his shoulder because after I finish this one...

You did a really nice job with this Tamiya Duster. Turned out top notch for a kit from the 1970s. I like that you have the hatches open showing the interior. Did you scratch build the interior or did you use the Verlinden interior set? I built two AFV Club Dusters when I was working at the Air...

As I acquire more and more Vietnamese civilian figures I am finding that this diorama could blossom into something much larger than I intended, so I have decided to break it up into several smaller vignettes that can eventually be displayed together and arranged in a manner that reflects where...

This evening I completed to putty work on the 1LT Barnes figure. Once the putty cures I will clean up the putty debris and scrape and sand where needed before priming and further refining cleanup before painting. His right hand is pointing at the baguettes he wants to buy and the left will be...

Yes, he was. It wasn't very thick at the time so I will just replicate it with paint rather than with putty.

The work I have done so far on the 1LT Barnes figure is replacing the kit head with a Hornet head that looks quite a bit like him, scraped away the epaulets and web belt, used putty to fill in the belt area, added a shoulder holster along with lead wire straps, added a watch that he used to loop...

Last night I primed some of the figures of Vietnamese children and three of the American Soldiers. The Vietnamese children are now ready to paint. The good thing about priming is that you can see any deficiencies and flaws before painting so they can be fixed. I will be fixing those flaws tonight.

Thanks, guys. Since my last posting I have changed a few things. I am now including a figure of then 1LT Brice Barnes who I know for sure bought some baguettes from one of the bakeries in Long Thanh when he received a package from father that contained some dried venison sausage. Fortunately...

Thanks, Guys. My package from Paracel Miniatures arrived yesterday containing kits of Vietnamese children and two women on a boat on a river. There was also a bonus of some accessories from the owner of Paracel Miniatures that will be helpful for stocking up the two shops. The figures are...

While I am waiting for my package containing kits of Vietnamese civilians, I worked on one of the GIs. The base figure is a casting of the figure I sculpted of a guy holding a beer (the one standing in the doorway of the bunker in my "Not Happy About Getting a Haircut" diorama) with a right arm...

Yesterday I painted everything black, then used light grey primer last night. Today I painted the stucco walls a yellow color that was one of the few colors used to paint houses in Vietnam. I also painted the concrete, cinder blocks, and tile floor. I still need to weather it and add the roof...

This is the kit from which I took the blocks from for this structure. Once the glue dried, I needed to texture the walls to replicate the stucco that was common on old colonial houses. I used Vallejo Industrial Mud texture material rather than wait for a purpose made stucco product for...

Back in 1999 when I was stationed in Alaska I built a diorama of Soldiers from the 9th Infantry Division shopping in the town of Long Thanh which was located near Camp Bearcat. I was fairly limited in regards to items I could use to detail the diorama by what was on the market at the time and...

Selous Scouts were Rhodesians who were some hard core mf'ers. When I worked for an environmental consulting firm in the 1990s, I was put on a project providing oversight on an environmental project KBR was working on at Kelly AFB in San Antonio. The KBR foreman had served in Selous Scouts...

One of the perks of being friends with Vladimir Demchenko from Bravo 6 is that he sends me his new releases, usually to see what kind of conversion I can come up with, but this time I will be building this kit as it was intended to be. I just primed it and plan on starting the painting process...

Thanks, guys. I guess I am starting to get my modeling mojo back. Oh, do behave! Cheers, James

Thanks. I am glad it turned out well. I probably won't do a M114. I don't know much about them and don't know anyone that served on one, so it will be more M113s and other vehicles used in Vietnam in my modeling future.

Thanks. I am glad ya'll like it.

Thanks, guys. I am happy with how it turned out. I just hope the figures on the ground are glued on sturdy enough to withstand the vibration of being transported to shows on these outstanding Oklahoma roads. MP, I am not sure why they limit the number of figures on armor entries at the show in...

Back in 2018 I built the AFV Club M113 to be entered in some local IPMS and AMPS shows as an Armor entry. As such, some of the shows limited the number of crew members to 2 figures and they could not be doing much. So, with that limitation, I only included a figure pulling security behind the...