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England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 11:52 PM UTC
hello all,

is there any Vietnam tank figures out

or what can i use as Austrailion tank crewman?

thanks


nexus7
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Madrid, Spain / Espaņa
Joined: February 15, 2007
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 12:06 AM UTC
I remember an APC crew kit from tamiya, but it wasn't too good(awfull, in fact).
I i'm looking too for crew for an Nam era M113. I don't know why Dragon stopped the Nam series, they even released a heli pilot set...
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Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 12:52 AM UTC
Firestorm do a useful looking range of Vietnam Aussies and the postage is quite cheap

http://www.firestormmodels.com/store/cart.php?target=category&category_id=133
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Luzon, Philippines
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 01:34 AM UTC
I think Legend came out with some Vietnam war figures
HeavyArty
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Florida, United States
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 02:07 AM UTC
Verlinden, AFV Club, CMK, and Warriors (to name a few) have good Vietnam tanker and APC crew figures in resin. There aren't really any out there in plastic though. A few kits do come with them, such as Academy's Vietnam M113A1. For Aussies, Firestorm is the best bet.
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 03:29 AM UTC
If someone out there is prepared to part with it, the resin figure (Hobby Fan, and different to the other figure below) in the first run of AFV Club Mk V Australian Centurion is spot on the money. The Hobby Fan set of Aussie figures are OK if you only want the Crew Commander but the Infantry in the set are atrocious.
The Firestorm figures as Gino and Pat have said are nice but do have a few accuracy problems mainly with the boots as do the Hobby Fan figures. But they do look like RAAC crews in Vietnam.

Cheers Jason
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 08:58 AM UTC

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I remember an APC crew kit from tamiya, but it wasn't too good(awfull, in fact).
I i'm looking too for crew for an Nam era M113. I don't know why Dragon stopped the Nam series, they even released a heli pilot set...


I'm pretty sure you can order a lot of the dragon Nam series off lucky model.
HeavyArty
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Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 02:44 AM UTC

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Quoted Text

I remember an APC crew kit from tamiya, but it wasn't too good(awfull, in fact).
I i'm looking too for crew for an Nam era M113. I don't know why Dragon stopped the Nam series, they even released a heli pilot set...


I'm pretty sure you can order a lot of the dragon Nam series off lucky model.


Yes you can, but Dragon never did a Vietnam era tank crew set.
DogEgg
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England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 08:05 AM UTC
...more's the pity.
And I found those Dragon marines a little 'bulky'...

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