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HELP - Details on MG Mounts & Troop Hatch
Neill
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Posted: Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 04:44 AM UTC
Does any one have pic or details onthe following items:

1. Interior details of Roof Troop hatch - Iknow Tamiya has the pull chain.strap upside down, but would liekto see teh real thing to scratch build

2. Pintles or MG Mounts/shileds on M2 and M60s - lots of pic out there of front of shield, but hard to see what ehy used for Mounting these MGs -

thanks in Advance for any help

Neill

(Plans to just build the basic modle for my classroom Vietnam Tunnel Rat Dio have gone outthe window... none of my studnets would notice, but i would...)
TonyDz
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Posted: Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 05:57 AM UTC
You might want to keep up with your threads. Here is the reply you got the first time you asked.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/177080&page=1
Neill
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Posted: Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 10:30 AM UTC

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You might want to keep up with your threads. Here is the reply you got the first time you asked. https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/177080&page=1


Sorry Tony - Miss that one. Great pic and phot link. Thanks again!

Did not serve in Nam, so on the troop hatch on top, my recall was a canvas strap with 6 " (+/-) of chain at each end connecting tothe haatch, but was it the same in the Viet Nam era M113s?
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