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Several months ago, last July to be exact, I had started working on two M577s - one being made from the Tamiya kit and the other being a kit bash of AFV Club's M113A1 ACAV and the Tamiya M577 kit. The one this thread is about is the Tamiya M577. Some things that I have done to improve the kit...

This is a vignette that I made for a friend of mine, Sharon Bloszko Swift, who was the fiance of SGT Russell Fant of C Company, 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division who was Killed in Action on 3 February 1969 in Long An Province, Vietnam when his M113 hit a mine which...

It has been a few months since I have posted anything. Medical issues and hospital visits concerning my wife and my mom have been on the forefront and modeling had taken a back seat. Things are settling down, so I am trying to get some modeling done. Since the MEDCAP diorama that I had been...

Not to long ago I had bought the IDF Tanker 1973 figure from Royal Models with the intention of converting him to a US GI in Vietnam. I scraped off the tanker coverall details, sculpted in the necessary details to transform the uniform into a set of 2d Pattern Jungle Fatigues. I then added the...

I have been working slowly but surely on the third diorama in my "Shopping in Long Thanh" series and this one will be titled "Tour Jackets, Souvenirs, and Trinkets". In this diorama, GIs fron the 9th Infantry Division are shopping at two places - one that sells things like tour jackets, Ao Dais...

Here is something a bit different for me, a vignette of a wedgie of a WW1 German A7V from MModels and an enlisted tank crewman and an officer from Masterbox. I am building this for a friend of mine who is a WW1 history buff. The wedgie makes a good backdrop for the figures and creates the...

Last night I completed the second vignette/diorama for my "Shopping in Long Thanh" diorama series. It is a fairly simple vignette but I think it turned out well. The American Soldier is a Bravo 6 conversion and the Vietnamese girl is from Paracel Miniatures. The M113 "wedgie" that is being...

I started this project on New Year's Day and completed it last night in time for my wife's birthday which was today. The figures are from Masterbox which for injection molded figures were pretty decent. I did not modify them in any way, which is rare for me, but I thought they told a good story...

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...

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...

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...

I have been out of the loop for a while, so I am glad that I did not miss this group build. For my first entry, I want to do a diorama that I started a few days ago that until now I did not have a title for. It will be henceforth be known as, "Not Happy About Getting a Haircut". It will...

Hello, All! It has been a while since I have done much modeling due to some serious health issues that my wife is having. Sometimes I can manage to get in some modeling in 15-20 minute increments between having to do things for her. As a result of this, and a busy past year in general, I have...

Over the past several years I have been working on a series of projects depicting Soldiers from 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam for their upcoming regimental reunion in 2022. This diorama is going to depict an incident that occurred in 1967 and is...

When Royal Models released this figure, I saw some good potential in it. It is a nice kit, but the frame of the chair is in white metal and does not fit up to the resin seat part of the chair, so I decided that I would make my own chair or have him laying back on something else. First I...

Since it will probably be a while before I can get around to finishing the other figures for the Casualty Collection Point diorama that I am working on, I decided to take the conversion of the Bravo 6 "Fireman's Carry" figure set and place them in a vignette of their own. I mixed up some Magic...

It has been a while since I have posted anything as it has been a very busy several months leaving me very little time to do any modeling much less keep up on things on this forum. Hopefully things will slow down so I can get some projects knocked out and so I can contribute to this site like I...

My wife is a big Willie Nelson fan, so when Custom Dioramics released this bust of Willie Nelson, I ordered it so I could paint it as a present to my wife. I started with the shirt and body. I then painted the base color for the head before attaching it to the rest of the bust. I have...

It has been a while since I have been to the bench. One of my current projects is a conversion of this Andrea figure of a WWII US Marine to a US Soldier in Vietnam shooting an azimuth with a compass. I liked the folds and wrinkles of the Andrea figure's trousers and the worn look to the boots...

Something that has been lacking in the figure market in regards to Vietnam figures are figures pulling maintenance which is a daily activity in mechanized, armor, transportation and any other unit that has vehicles. I will be sculpting several sets of Soldiers conducting maintenance activities...