I must admit that one thing I criticized in Academy new Sheridan kit is actually correct!
I was informed (thanks Gary!) that plastic water jerrycans were actually used in Vietnam since about 1969. Suspicious type as I am, before I accepted that fact I started to browse through my whole collection of Nam war photos and... surprise! Indeed, plastic jerrycans can be seen on some photos, attached to M48 tanks (at least that's where I spotted them). One photo was dated February 1969.

So I must apologize Academy and everyone of you who started to remove such jerrycans from their Nam models - these cans are actually fully accurate, unless you build a pre-1969 model.

Pawel

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This was my post from yesterdays thread. Seems like its safe to use them afterall. To tell the truth .... I had no intensions of not useing them. Now its just not going to niggle me. Cheers pawel. Its still a top review.

Thanks for the correction, sir. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to double check. That is the sign of a good man.

Plastic water cans were ready for procurement in late 1968. No doubt trial items were in use before that.

See:

http://www.track-link.net/articles/1120

KL

Thanks for the link Kurt ! Just what I needed to scratchbuild some modern plastic fuel cans

Frenchy

Kurt,

Very informative and useful article, thanks a lot!

Pawel

P.S.
Although I must admit that I have mixed feelings about seeing it linked from this thread, as - for reasons known only to TL management - linking to my own review is now forbidden on TL forums... Please don't remove the link however - I really appreciate the information your article provides!