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Armor/AFV: Contests
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New York, United States
Joined: January 29, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 10:04 AM UTC
Here is my latest Vietnam truck based on a M35 2 1/2 ton frame. The kit used was AFV’s M35A2 which had to be back dated to a A1 with a little help from Animal and Guntruck Jimmy. Jim also encouraged me into hand painting the Snoopy artwork on the side of the gunners box. A full build article can be found here that will explain and show pics of the trucks construction and scratchbuilds.

























Thank you and enjoy,
Joe
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Singapore / 新加坡
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 12:41 PM UTC
wow!! nice...very impressive...
btw, how did u make the ration boxes?
jazza
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Singapore / 新加坡
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 03:39 PM UTC
Wow fantastic work on the snoopy artwork Joe! Definitely got good advice there. After seeing your numerous GunTruck builds, im almost inspired to try it out too.

Great job and good luck on MoM!
HeavyArty
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Florida, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 05:56 PM UTC
Looks great Joe. Good job as usual. Good luck in the contest.
Joker
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 05:59 PM UTC
As always, nice clean work, looks great
Regards
Peter
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 02:42 AM UTC
Thanks guys , Danial the C-ration boxes are from Verlinden, and used thin black tape for the straps. You can find all sorts of C-ration and MRE'S boxes in 1/35th on ebay. I got mine at $4 bucks a sheet that came with a total of 12 boxes.

Joe
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Virginia, United States
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 03:41 AM UTC
A very nice job.
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Praha, Czech Republic
Joined: April 03, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 11:43 AM UTC
Hi Joe,
Very nice work, this conversion is complicated, I know, because I this build as well.
Your result - super.
Miloslav
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England - North West, United Kingdom
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 02:04 PM UTC
Nice work Joe! I wish you'd submitted your build feature though, then it would have been in the database and seen by more people! You could still do it too.

Vinnie
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 04:41 PM UTC
Excellent work, Joe!
I really love the subtle shading/weathering in the paint job, Bro, looks just "dirty enough", and definitely not overdone. . .Bravo Zulu!
~Mark
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Nelson, New Zealand
Joined: August 27, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 10:03 PM UTC
Excellent scratch building skills, I did follow your link to the build and the engine is wonderful as is the armoured tray and everything else. A lot of hard work has gone into this Guntruck.
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