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Dioramas: Vietnam
For Vietnam diorama subjects or techniques.
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csago
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Posted: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 06:38 AM UTC
Hello, my name is Santiago Tre, and a fan of Vietnam dios too.
Congratulations for your diorama, very good for a first one.

I live in Logroño, and I have a lot of information about Nam, seals, and so...a lot of years of investigations...

You can check some of my dios here

http://armorama.com/forums/196440&page=1
http://armorama.com//features/380
http://armorama.com/forums/41502#348295
http://armorama.com/forums/38152#321097

You can send me private message if you need information.

This month we have a contest here in Agoncillo (La Rioja) 19-20-21 october. We can meet there if you travel to La Rioja that weekend (I,m the presidente of the Asociacion Riojana de Modelismo, the organizer of the contest).

We´ll be very happy to have your models in our contest¡¡¡¡

Happy modelling

Santiago Tre
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Posted: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 07:12 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Hello, my name is Santiago Tre, and a fan of Vietnam dios too.
Congratulations for your diorama, very good for a first one.

I live in Logroño, and I have a lot of information about Nam, seals, and so...a lot of years of investigations...

You can check some of my dios here

http://armorama.com/forums/196440&page=1
http://armorama.com//features/380
http://armorama.com/forums/41502#348295
http://armorama.com/forums/38152#321097

You can send me private message if you need information.

This month we have a contest here in Agoncillo (La Rioja) 19-20-21 october. We can meet there if you travel to La Rioja that weekend (I,m the presidente of the Asociacion Riojana de Modelismo, the organizer of the contest).

We´ll be very happy to have your models in our contest¡¡¡¡

Happy modelling

Santiago Tre


Greetings,

Your diorama is great and please don't take this too hard, your years of reseach and investigation do not come close to any time spent in Vietnam. The tour of duty for the Naval Special Warfare Group members to include a SEAL detachment and boat support team was 183 days, out of the 183 days, 175 of mine were in direct enemy engagement along with the SEAL det with which we worked and were assigned to. Here's the breakdown, one SEAL det, one LSSC and one MSSC to get the SEALs into and out of an operating area, the mission was set up to send in the SEALs by helo (Helicopter Assault-Light) or on the above mentioned boats. All missions were living hell and in all missions we were shot at, one such daylight mission my MSSC was hit and blown out of the water by two RPGs, the boat was going fast enough to be OK but the 7 man crew including myself were knocked out by the concusion. I could tell you of every day but there is not enough room on here. So please refrain from saying you researched Vietnam riverine warfare when in refering to Special Ops. As Mino mentioned he thanked me for the info I will be happy to send out as long as it is not classified. Best of luck and if you have issues with this post please by all means take it up with any other Riverine Special Operator, I'm sure they can lend you the same hint I did.

GMC John M. Staehle, USN (Ret.)
johncpo
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Posted: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 07:17 AM UTC
Mino, you are quite welcome and please note that I sent a reply to the latest viewer of your diorama about researching Vietnam, I'm sure he meant well but as we all know research is not a substitute for being there. I meant no offence to him.

Thanks for showing off you great skills.

johncpo
csago
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Posted: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 11:11 AM UTC

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Mino, you are quite welcome and please note that I sent a reply to the latest viewer of your diorama about researching Vietnam, I'm sure he meant well but as we all know research is not a substitute for being there. I meant no offence to him.

Thanks for showing off you great skills.

johncpo


One of the good things about making Vietnam war dioramas is that we are lucky to have some veterans that can explain to us how it was. So my research in the last years was especially about stories of the people who was there.

For example, I was lucky to contact to US Army LTC (ret)Hugh Mills looking for information about the OH-6a helicopter of the unit he commanded in Vietnam in 1972, the aeroscout platoon of c troop 16th Cavalry regiment. Thanks good we have internet ¡¡¡

Reslly the reason of my offering is that the hometown of the poster (Santander) is very close to mine (Logroño) here in Spain, so we can meet personally if he wants to do that in a modeling show this month.

And on top of that, my offering was about modelling skills especially in Vietnam dioramas (groundwork, plants and so), not only about historical accurate.



Santiago
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Posted: Saturday, October 06, 2012 - 09:20 PM UTC
Hey guys dont discuss about it, its obvious that the real experience in the battle field is the best information you can have about something, im agree with john about it, but its obvious too, that a good and great compilation of second hand information is a good help too, and when that information is at only 120 milles from me, is beter than good. Be friends boys, when i need some onformation i ask both goys. Im very pleased with your oppinion of my works.
Mino74
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Posted: Saturday, October 06, 2012 - 09:25 PM UTC
In another terms, im gonna speak in spanish with Santi about the modelworks exibition near Logroño in Spain at October 19.
Santi me tienes que pasar algún contacto vuestro para intentar pasarme ese fin de samana por allí, yo vivo en Castro-Urdiales así que no me pilla muy lejos. He visto tus trabajos y me parecen espectaculares, de hecho me fije bastante en tu LSSC y en los SEALs que llevan al prisionero VC, espero ir cogiendo nivel para acercarme al resultado de tus trabajos.Hoy mismo empiezo un M-706...así que si tienes algún dato interesante ya sabes...
csago
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Posted: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 - 05:11 AM UTC

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In another terms, im gonna speak in spanish with Santi about the modelworks exibition near Logroño in Spain at October 19.
Santi me tienes que pasar algún contacto vuestro para intentar pasarme ese fin de samana por allí, yo vivo en Castro-Urdiales así que no me pilla muy lejos. He visto tus trabajos y me parecen espectaculares, de hecho me fije bastante en tu LSSC y en los SEALs que llevan al prisionero VC, espero ir cogiendo nivel para acercarme al resultado de tus trabajos.Hoy mismo empiezo un M-706...así que si tienes algún dato interesante ya sabes...



Te he mandado un mensaje privado con información sobre el concurso, si necesitas más contáctame.

Saludos.

Santiago
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