This is just a test shot.. I'm not an expert, but I think they look really good.





Hisham

I guess these should be OK for Vietnam (M16, M21 sniper gun, XM177, M14, M14A1 ...)

H.P.

Yes, I think they are intended as a Vietnam weapons set.. and, looking at the sprue shots from their new M113's they're working on, I believe some of them will be included in those kits.

Like this one..



Hisham

They do look quite nice for Vietnam. I've noticed that the ultra rare Dragon Vietnam Weapons set (which was fetching silly money on e bay) appears to have had a re-release recently as I'd noticed a couple of suppliers have got it in. I'm debating whether to pick one up just in case they disappear again for years and I decide to do a Vietnam dio at some point. I had a dabble years ago but went back to WW2 as there wasn't a great deal of stuff about in injection figures then and DML's were a bit patchy. Soft detail and size issues. At least with Bravo 6 and Masterbox there are some really good figures out there now. I remember buying the Italeri Light Weapons kit just for a couple of G3's for a SEAL team but it was quite an interesting set. There were a couple of Sterlings in there which could have doubled up as Patchetts for British WW2 Paras as some were supplied for Arnhem to be field tested. It's always nice to see manufacturers releasing weapons sets even though sometimes I think they get greedy when you actually look at what's in the box. That's one thing you can't say about DML's weapons sets as there's always plenty in there and some really interesting choices.

Bodes well for a new generation of M113's.

Be nice if they included a M79, M72LAW, 90RR, Claymoore, and M60; but I would really like to see some PE used for the trigger guard and trigger,flash suppressors, and tubes for the barrels. I like to use the "Hand Scale" method sometimes, where I compare things to the hand-so looking at the M16 trigger guard, how thick should that be compared to a 1/35 scale figure's hand?

The trigger guard on the M16 is about 1/4 inch thick..... That's 0.007 inches in 1/35 scale... That's the thickness of seven human hairs!

As I get older, my close up vision doesn't focus less than 18 inches away.... In 1/35 scale that like examining a real live object 52 feet away. I doubt that at 52 feet I could even tell if were was a trigger guard or not! Only benefit to getting older is that you can justify some inaccuracies and sometimes, "close enough for government work"!

How would one assemble a PE flash suppressor for an M16? Doesn't Live Resin do most / all of these weapons? If so, that's the place to go if you want uber-accuracy.

I can't even imagine seeing a PE flash suppressor. It would be impossible to bend. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing a PE blank adapter - it would be super tiny but not invisible, and I've never seen a model with one despite seeing a zillion of them in my Army days.

PE for the flash suppressors would be too thin but would be pretty good for the trigger guards.