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Sensei
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Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
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Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 12:35 AM UTC
Well, i need an info. Im doing a willy MB jeep (Revell) and i searched the net for some info and couldnt find it, this is it:

On every jeep i saw the marking (decal) on front is just a white star, my decall sheet is white star in white circle??? whats the diference? and which one of theese markings were used in WWII and which in vitenam?

tnx in advance
zer0_co0l
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Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 12:36 AM UTC
hi the white star with the circle was used in europe during ww2 the normal star was used everywhere else and in vietnam I believe
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Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 11:48 PM UTC
And possibly Korea.
Cheers
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 12:10 AM UTC
tnx very much for your reply guys, so what i should do is basicaly cut out the star from the circle thats not too hard and btw, i could use some info of the uniform colours? i saw some dioramas with single-color uniforms and some with masking ones... but which colours are they?
zer0_co0l
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 12:27 AM UTC
ok so you want to make a vietnam dio?

wel most soldiers had a normal green uniform only lrrp and special forces had the tiger stripe cammo uniform

so normal od (olive drab) will do
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 12:42 AM UTC

Quoted Text

ok so you want to make a vietnam dio?

wel most soldiers had a normal green uniform only lrrp and special forces had the tiger stripe cammo uniform

so normal od (olive drab) will do



Im already making it assembled and almost finished the jeep and M34 tactical truck and 6 figures (4 Dragon elite 'nam' series US recoon team and 2 deadguys made from parts) so i needed this info to start compleating it im gonna buy a digital camera soon so ill add the pics then

Tnx for all the info
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