Tamiya 1/35 3,7cm Anti-Tank Gun PaK 35/36

Ah, yes. Vintage Tamiya, in this case from 1974. Sometimes I find the challenge of re-visditing kits quite rewarding, and this is such a case. The PaK was bought in a New York store (The Red Caboose) on sheer impulse, and it took som time before I engaged in the contents. This is a fairly simply kit, and the main difficulty for me was to give the figures a decent paint job. I also exchanged the rifles for more modern mouldings, and exchanged bread bags, gas mask canisters, etcetera, for better renditions. I also added a small base. French Chars beware!

Tamiya 1/35 M113 Armored Personnel Carrier

The M113 is a kit from the mid-1970s, but is has a nicely detailed interior, and good overall fit. I added some items to the interior, as well as a decent amount of weathering and a shield for the .50 cal machine gun. The figures are chunky and lacking details such as the helmet covers, but they were used anyway. As for the base, I had limited resources to do the groundwork, as well as limited skills in modelling Vietnamese terrain, but the reddish soil or clay is prevalent in many pictures from the Vietnam War.

Here's some pictures of the sprues:
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Checking Out at the Check Point

The old Tamiya US Military Policeman with a Harley Davidson and a Masterbox female civilian constitute the participants in this credit card-sized vignette. The young lady, perhaps a civilian employee at the UN Headquarters in Seoul, is reapplying her lipstick in front of a military policeman who is rapidly losing interest in the traffic. The Tamiya figure's head was replaced by a Nemrod head, but it was tad too small, and simply not of the same quality as, say, Hornet heads. The MP therefore looks perhaps more shocked than pleasantly surprised. The female figure was wonderful to assemble, and I think the original head worked quite well. The characters on the oil drum are supposed to say "stop" in Korean. The base is made out of old hotel key cards glued together and sandpapered into shape.