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Stik , i found it ................well it was right here in plain sight i know , but i never look in the obviouse places first ........what fun is that ?

I'm in Stik . I dont know what i'll build right now . I served on a cruiser that patrolled up and down the coast of Vietnam (1964 thru 1966) to provide NGFS with our main armament 6' turret . Anyway , i dont know if there is a model of the USS Oklahoma City or a ship of that class after the retrofit that they went thru in the late 50's .

Ahh.. The ol' Five paragraph OPORD... 

Well, in keeping with Murphy's Laws of Combat, I'm not volunteering for anything... However,  a directive from Household Six says I'm doing this one...

Will advise HQ on subject and scale upon receipt of FRAGO 1..

55th (+1) anniversary of your 21st B-day 

Hey, that's a good way to think of it- thanks, Stik!

I guess that means I qualify for the "old vets."  I've already built models of most of the aircraft I once dealt with so maybe I'll duplicate something.  Not sure which yet, but I'll give it a go.

Ken

I was intel so I'm not sure what I 'll be able to build for it; but I'm willing to give it a go!

SPC-IC, MI, Commanding?

I would be interested in a Veterans group build. If this GB happens you would have to tell me the rules for a GB as I have never participated in one.

GoNavy ,the basic rules will be to build a kit of something you served on or crossed paths with during your service time. If a kit is partially begun before the start date, that is acceptable. Any scale and any military subject will work. Things like the car you owned at Fort Hoocheekoochee, or airliners used to transfer between Fort Lostinthewoods and Camp Swampee are not allowed, but an airliner used for a deployment is. For those UK vets who went somewhere south on the Canberra or QE2 this opens up the possbilities. The build subject must have an actual military usage connection. Corossovers from other GBs are allowed,

The idea is to get the kit built during the alloted time span, in this case Memorial Day Weekend, and share updates on your progress here. As well as give feedback and encouragement to the other Vets who will be participating.

 I am thinking of starting this on the day after Thanksgiving to get it up and running ASAP. One can join at a later date if they feel that the Memorial Day weekend deadline can be met.

Slusher, you can build something like a Deuce or 5-ton that you went to the range on or being MI, some piece of the other guys stuff you came across in your travels, a Serb M84 or Iraqi Type 69. Carrier guys can do the tractors or ordinance loading equipment that keep those multimillion dollar birds operating. Mech and Armor guys can build one of the vehicles in a combined arms Task Force, Airborne/Air Assault types the air taxi that took them on their one way trips... It does not have to be the item you were signed for.

Roger that! 

Guess I can stick with the BMP-3 then.  Ruskies always make for good targets!

Now an MI guy and a BMP-3,,, now that would make a good tale at the bar...

"Dere we wuz, no..."

I'll neither confirm nor deny...;)

That's classified...

I actually do have a story of me and an Iraqi Ural 375 truck full of 152mm howitzer ammo...involving an anti-tank mine; but I'll need a few before I can tell that one!

Shellback

I'm in Stik . I dont know what i'll build right now . I served on a cruiser that patrolled up and down the coast of Vietnam (1964 thru 1966) to provide NGFS with our main armament 6' turret . Anyway , i dont know if there is a model of the USS Oklahoma City or a ship of that class after the retrofit that they went thru in the late 50's .

Excellent Shell! If there is gonna be a plastic kit of a ship of that class, I imagine it would be an old Revell kit, But that is just a SWAG. Revell did do a USS Springfield, CLG-7, which is a sister ship modified similarly. But it is OOP currently and you will have to hunt the usual sources to find one.

stikpusher

 

Shellback:

 

I'm in Stik . I dont know what i'll build right now . I served on a cruiser that patrolled up and down the coast of Vietnam (1964 thru 1966) to provide NGFS with our main armament 6' turret . Anyway , i dont know if there is a model of the USS Oklahoma City or a ship of that class after the retrofit that they went thru in the late 50's .

 

 

Excellent Shell! If there is gonna be a plastic kit of a ship of that class, I imagine it would be an old Revell kit, But that is just a SWAG. Revell did do a USS Springfield, CLG-7, which is a sister ship modified similarly. But it is OOP currently and you will have to hunt the usual sources to find one.

http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=34416

I guess I can do an F-14 since that was the main plane during the early 90's. I have 6+ kits in my stash and if I built an F-14 at least it would have the bombs and missles I dealt with being in the Weapons department aboard the Connie.

Wish I knew how to scratch build, then I'd do a scene down in one of the magazines showing us redshirts putting the bombs together and getting them ready to send up to the planes.

Now that would be very cool to see! I know there are a few sources for crewman in 1/48 and 1/32, and the bombs could be easily be found. But creating the  work area would require the real scratch building.

The work area would probably be a challenge for a lot of people and way out of my league.  Off the top of my head you would need to do, a table with rollers, an overhead crane, the metal floor with it's holes every 2 inches(real life not sure what that would be in scale), the reachfork, shelving units to hold the bombs, an elevator and doors, even the bombs would have to be modified since a bomb does not have it's fuse or tailfins(and also it's arming wire) added until it's being sent up to a plane, battle lanterns, tie down chains, floor length polls from deck to overhead. 

Unfortunately my work area was classified(not to sure why, even when there were no bombs) so I don't even have pictures of us working down in the mags.   I did take a few pics of my area when it was being remodeled and that was just of the mess.

Whatever you comeup with Navy will be more than welcome here.

Stik and Bondo thanks for the info .

I am a retired veteran and most of what I spent a quarter century on is available as 1/35 scale models. I'd guess my greatest difficulty would be deciding what tank, HMMWV or other armored vehicle to chose.

Like Rob, I too have over a 1/4 century of Service, so there's a LOT to choose from..  BUT...

My primary is going to be the 1/35th Italeri M109A2 (converted to an A3, which is just a refit of the A1 to A2, IIRC) and an AFV 1/35th M548 Cargo Carrier, with assorted Tamiya, Dragon, Testor's and a Soviet-made set (who's name escapes me at the moment. IRC or IPC or something like that..), since i "Frankenstein" figures... Both kits will be for a diorama of course, but I'm gonna call  them finished when they're ready to mount on the dio if that's OK...

The reason I ask is that there's always SOMEthing to do on the model after it's mounted, even if it's just a little pastel-dusting to tie the model to the terrain.. Also, figure placement will be after the fact as well..

My back-up, should the howitzer fall through (parts missing, broken, etc), or if I have tie to do two builds, will be "my" trusty little M151A2 that I drove through hell & high water at Ft Hood during one FTX, where I was double-slotted with another guy as NBC NCO and I drove the BC instead... There's a story about me, the BC, the quarter-ton, and an old foxhole at night that's pretty funny... NOW...

So it sounds like we have a half dozen or so here interested in partaking. I will get the ball rolling in the next few days on the GB forum. I have built all the vehicles that were "mine" except a M1037 Shelter Carrier, but seeing how I don't have one in the stash or the funding to go get what is needed to do one currently, I am gonne be going with something I served alongside in a Task Force or rode in...

maybe one of these

or one of these...

Verlinden did a PE shelter conversion for the Academy (I believe) 2-door HMMWV kit. I've got one in the stash somewhere.

Count me in.

This will be my first group build and committing to it also sounds like a great way to mark the eve of my 28^th (and still counting) anniversary of my PEB date (11/17/83). Subject will be in 1/35^th, the four possible candidates that come to mind right now are Tamiya’s 151A2, M60A3, M113 or Italeri’s 998. 

Gary

Welcome aboard Top! I like the sound of those builds. You enlisted just over a week after I arrived at Ft Benning for OSUT... I enlisted 08/11/83 and arrived Benning 11/08/83...

Rob, I have not come aross the Verlinden M1037 conversion or I would have snatched it up. I was thinking of perhaps buying one of the Italeri Shelters along with a stakebed HMMWV and doing the conversion myself. The shelter would need to be cut down in length at least, but It would not be too hard. But that will have to wait for sunnier financial days. Right now it is dig in to the stash.

Sounds like you must have graduated just a few months before I arrived at Benning for my OSUT.  C-9/2 Harmony Chuch Barracks 21 May 84 thru 24 Aug 84.  The M60 thought for the build comes from the M72 LAW trg when the 60 rolled over you while you were in the hole and you had to pop up once it rolled over and engage it with the LAW.  I can still smell the diesel exhaust.

Gary

Holy Smokes... I was D-10/2 there. We were the last set of barrcks in Harmony Church before you headed off towards the 11M school on one side of the highway (I95?) and Ranger School on the other side. We graduated on Feb 29, 1984 (leap year). I remember the LAW range and the hole/tank thing quite well to this day. Not the smell for me, but the shaking of the earth around you as that beast rolled over... another buddy of mine was the arriving Privates at the next company the night before we graduated. I remember watching them getting smoked upon arrival as we were getting ready for our graduation. I know he was in 2/2 but dont recall what Company.

Now taking volunteers Jerome

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Marched past you barracks several times I think.  I remember a Dco barracks just before you crossed over the highway.  Delta Dawgs?  I need to dig out my cycle book and make sure it was an A3 that rolled over, it may have some barracks pictures too. 

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I see you've set up the thread in the GB.  As Ive been more of a lurker here since I've joined, what is the purpose of the two posts after the greeting?  Do you reply to the specfic post for participants to list your name, and reply to the next one to post your pictures of progress?

Gary 

It may have even been an A1. When I got to 5th ID after Benning, all the tank units there had M60A1s. They transitioned to M1s in 1988. Us TOW guys were the only ones with thermal sites. D-10/2 was Vanguard Delta. I still have my cycle book also.

The two posts after the opener are reserved as follows, and are to be edited by the NCO(retired)IC who orginally posted:

first post will be the roster of participants and their build subjects- to be modified as folks join up.

second post is for a gallery of photos of all the completed builds- this makes it easier for anyone to see rather than having go thru all he pages of the thread to look for each build as they are posted. I copy one pic from the completed shots that are posted by the builder and move them to the front page- to be modified as builds are completed.

have a look to my other current GB that I am currently ramrodding to see how it works...

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Rather than scroll thru almost 200 pages to see them one at a time, they are all in one place of glory... although I did not have seperate posts for for roster and finished builds there. A combined one is getting long and messy now.