This is my first Vietnam gun truck! i am pretty far into the build. I gonna try and do a diorama which will also be a first for me .. Anyways here are some pictures of where im at so feed back is always welcome... feel free to let me know if its accurate, if its wrong, if it looks like crap or if its good! Haha thanks

under carriage

m55 trailor which is pretty much scratched built.. The PE is from lionRoar m55 detail.

this is the 50 cal ammo bins... the PE for this is from eduard m35a1 set. The ammo bins didnt fit well at all so i had to think of some way to support them. I bet some kind of truck had this kind of ammo feed system.. if not or if there was a more common way please let me know

here is the motor.. This F'n think took a week to do!!

and here is the cabin

great start on your build ,will watch .

does anybody know how many crew members serve on a gun truck?

Looks good .
Amazing work so far .
Is that one of those Nancy trucks ?
Rick

I guess it may depend on the gun truck type...AFAIK, it usually consisted of a driver, two gunners, a non-commissioned officer, and sometimes a grenadier armed with an M79 grenade launcher.



H.P.

Thanks to all the people trying to help me! and yes this is a "nancy" truck but i want to call it something else cause there are too many nancy trucks out there haha. Does anybody have any catchy names or have pictures of a truck with this type of configuration? ...Anyways i am almost finished with this truck! Right now i am currently scratch building sand bags to fill the bed with using tissues and decor sand and it is coming out very nice!
here are some pictures

Coming along nicely. Great job so far. I see you filled in the exhaust hole on the right front fender. Lots of people leave it, but it shouldn't be there on an M35A1.

For name ideas, here is a link to the Army Transportation Museum website that lists most (if not all) the guntrucks used in Vietnam. Most have pics too. If you poke around the site, there is a wealth of guntruck info there.

Nice build! If you check the HARD RIDE and Have Guns will Travel books by James Lyles, they have a lot of pictures and info.

thanks heavy arty for the website.. i checked it out and liked a few of the names but i don;t know... its feel right to name it after a completely different truck.. i guess i gonna see if i can find one of the Hard Ride books at a book store or something and maybe get a few ideas.. anyways i about 90% finished, just got to do some touch up and decals.. here are pictures of the quad 50 that i just finished (could use a few ahhaa)

Looking good. You could drill out the conical ends of the flash suppressors on the .50 cals to make it look even better.

thats not a bad idea! thanks!

I agree whit Gino if you drii out 0ut the barlls it would cool not my speeing great work .

i thought of a name! the saigon spartans! i couldnt find any m35 to replicate that i liked so i coming up with my own name. one the front of the shield will be a face of the spartan helmet and on the rear metal plate will be the back of a shield! good idea??