who makes trees of the nam type and stuff for a vietnam diorama, and some good figure sets, dio t include an 88 and a patton, maintainance situation

Verlinden does a couple Vietnam vegitation sets in PE. They have palm trees and ground vegitation. There is also an article in the Features section here, under Dio Features on making them yourself.

DML/Dragon has a bunch of good Vietnam figure sets. Verlinden and Warriors also do quite a few in resin as well.

For the tank, which version Patton are you planning on using? Only the M48A3 was used in Vietnam, no M60s. M60's were all sent to Europe to possible face the Russian hordes. M48 was adequite for the situation in Vietnam.

You can try to scratch build them too.
http://dioramas.armorama.com//features/572
http://dioramas.armorama.com//features/587
http://dioramas.armorama.com//features/200

scott, awesome little plant build articles, and i also checked the pet store they are all great ideas and ive started looking at the stores for sculpy, and found it at hobby lobby, thanks for the help.....

Here are some more 1/35 resin figures. http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?department=FIG &catalog_no=FIG-HF
Glad to see another interest in modeling Nam there is a few of us around here and we will be glad to help in anyway. Keep us posted on youre progress.