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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 05:27 AM UTC
I built this little gun jeep using the Academy 1/35 scale M-151A1 jeep kit. I modified the steering wheel, the left windshield motor and the rear fender openings. I used evergreen plastic stock to build the body armor.
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 05:48 AM UTC
Dave, is it my imagination or have I seen this before somewhere (the subject, not the model ) or is this one of these vehicles that one keeps cropping up in images of Guntrucks?

Really nice build and a hell of an attractive subject, thanks for posting it!...Jim
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 06:03 AM UTC
Dave that is just to cool. The stuff you put out is amazing and lately i've been inspired into building some kind of truck. I have ARF M35 that i'm digging out. Now to build it into something.....i'll look around for some pics and decide. Can i use this kit to build a gun truck?, and what is the time frame of this truck.
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 06:09 AM UTC

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Dave, is it my imagination or have I seen this before somewhere (the subject, not the model ) or is this one of these vehicles that one keeps cropping up in images of Guntrucks?

Really nice build and a hell of an attractive subject, thanks for posting it!...Jim

First off thanks for the kudos.
I am not sure if you have seen it before. There was no Li'l Ace in Vietnam. I built it to go along with the Ace of Spade gun truck. There are a lot of gun jeeps that were in Vietnam and I have built a few of them. Lil Brutus is one that I built and posted the photos here a while back. In Volume two of James Lyles book the Hard Ride there will be lots of photos of these little convoy security vehicles along with the M-37 3/4 ton truck also.
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 07:57 AM UTC
and another nice one from the vietnam ara master. Now this I like as it is like a kitten small and cute with a bite if you upset it.
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 12:15 PM UTC

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and another nice one from the vietnam ara master. Now this I like as it is like a kitten small and cute with a bite if you upset it.


Thanks Cliff. I almost didn't build it. It was just an after thought.
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Posted: Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 12:04 PM UTC
Looks good Dave...... in fact looks down right "cute"......
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Posted: Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 12:50 PM UTC
G'day Dave.
That looks Awesome Mate!
another excellent nam truck, good on ya!
cheers
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Posted: Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 01:26 PM UTC
Dave, looks great as usual. did you custom make your own decals for these two? It looks awesome. Good job.
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Posted: Monday, December 13, 2004 - 04:41 AM UTC

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Dave, looks great as usual. did you custom make your own decals for these two? It looks awesome. Good job.


Thanks Gino, and yes I made the decals from the photos that I had. I reduced them down to fit.
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