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Hello KoSprueOne

Yes, the old Dodge M880 series were bears to steer, especially when they were locked in 4x4 drive. You needed to be careful when in rough terrain when making hard turns as the steering wheels tended to whip violently out of your hands if the front wheels became locked in ruts. I had my thumbs jammed/sprained many a time by the steering wheel cross member when not paying particular attention to the terrain. I recall one of my young soldiers having his thumb fractured, requiring a splint, and placed on light duty for the remainder of the training exercise!

As mentioned above, we thought of the Chevy's as luxury vehicles with their power steering and enjoyed being able to steer one handed

I was able to locate a few photos of one of my old M1008's. I'm not sure of their quality as these are digital photos of old glossy pictures that I still had kicking around.

These were photographed in the early 90's sometime shortly after "Desert Storm" hence the Desert Yellow on the one, which happened to be my vehicle.

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The interior of these vehicles were nothing fancy being mostly generic stock/commercial Chevy truck interiors otherwise, clad in brown vinyl and plastics. The only military item I recall is the addition of the standard U.S. 3-toggle night vision light controls being installed on the dash. Also a note: these vehicles were almost always driven with windows down, with the obvious exception of inclement weather, so the interiors were always well coated in dust, especially on top of the dash!

I'm looking forward to following your build! I'm going to have to consider adding this kit to my stash. It's too bad it didn't come with the frame and vinyl bed cover as they were almost always present on this particular vehicle. Oh well, sounds like a scratch build project

I would have loved to enter this campaign with my civilian Opel Blitz, but I have it entered under the "1939 Poland" campaign.

Hope I could be of some help to your build!

My other Tankograd pub pictures the ones on bases in Germany in that Olive Gray/Green you have.

I tried to color correct your image by taking out some of the yellow to see the color a little more true. I hope that's cool.



Looks good. I think I'm going with Vallejo Gelb-Oliv. It's pretty close. Much work still to do and times running out.