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welcome to the nam "mule with a kick"
trucker
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England - North West, United Kingdom
Joined: January 01, 2005
KitMaker: 60 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 03:06 AM UTC
posted my photos a while ago but forgot to put a message on. the model i used was DRAGONS M274 MULE WITH 106MM R/RIFLE, the model was good to build and i think it makes a change from the usual military vehicles. My diorama is the first one i've ever built so it was hit and miss on how it came out .I hope it looks right for nam.
ShermiesRule
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Michigan, United States
Joined: December 11, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 03:25 AM UTC
Hey Trucker. Nice work. Hope you don't mind but I'm going to post one of your pics for others to see

jlmurc
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: August 29, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 03:25 AM UTC
Hi Trucker that is a really nice diorama of an unusual subject, I hope you dont mind me linking your pictures so that people can see them.

John




jlmurc
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: August 29, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 03:27 AM UTC
There you go Alan, great minds thinking alike.

John
HeavyArty
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Florida, United States
Joined: May 16, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 03:45 AM UTC
Looks pretty good. I like the groundwork. You might want to remove the MRE cases though. MREs were not introduced till the early '80s. Correct rations for Vietnam are C-Rations. They look similar, but the boxes have different lettering. The "Meal Ready To Eat, Individual" across the top looks way out of place. Verlinden, Hudson & Allen, and a few others make paper C-Rat cases that would be correct for Vietnam era.

Good job. Change out the rations cases and it will look even better.
pfc
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Oklahoma, United States
Joined: October 13, 2002
KitMaker: 1,017 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 06:15 AM UTC
Great looking MULE you have there. The weathering on the mule and the ground work are very well done.
18Bravo
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Colorado, United States
Joined: January 20, 2005
KitMaker: 7,219 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 06:32 AM UTC
I like it a lot as well. Simple yet very effective. Who does the boonie hatted figure?
I hate to be the color police, as it apparently annoys some people, but the casings on the 106 rounds are steel, not brass. It's any easy fix. Still a very nice dio.
ShermiesRule
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Michigan, United States
Joined: December 11, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 06:36 AM UTC
The boonie hat guy looks like a figure from the Tamiya M113ACAV kit.
trucker
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England - North West, United Kingdom
Joined: January 01, 2005
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Posted: Monday, May 01, 2006 - 12:04 AM UTC
thank you for the kind comments ,the ration packs were all i had and you were right Alan the boonie hat is from tamiya's m113 a/cav.thank you for posting my photos i could not do it. I'm now going to try building more dio's.
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