I use them for antennas myself. I have a tube of them.

As far as I know the Army called their vehicles a V-100.  I never heard them call it a 706.

Other names were "Pig", "Duck", or "Rubber Duckie", the last two after the song from Bert's song "Rubber Duckie".  They were good vehicles but lightly armored being only able to handle up to a .30 cal machinegun, or perhaps a little more.  Their slanted armor and speed were its best defense.  We would have loved to have a gun turreton at least a few of our vehicles ofer the parapit armor.

One thing that is wrong is the tow/winch system.  We had cables, not chains.  I never understood why H.B. put in a chain.

One other is they forgot to have a second bilge vent on the right side.  Unless teh Army only had one.

quick question, is your figure supposed to be wearing jungle boots or stateside boots?  We used both when necessary, but it could be the time period of the figure.

I recently converted this kit into the Air Force M-706 which was a major amount of work. 

I took it to our last club meeting and was told by a another VIet-vet that my model was too clean.  I told him he was thinking Army.  My vehicle was A.F. and we had to clean our vehicles before turning them in each day.

Well, I have no idea how accurate anything here is but the armoured car looks good and the figure really turned out well. Nice work!!! 

ikar01

I use them for antennas myself. I have a tube of them.

As far as I know the Army called their vehicles a V-100.  I never heard them call it a 706.

Other names were "Pig", "Duck", or "Rubber Duckie", the last two after the song from Bert's song "Rubber Duckie".  They were good vehicles but lightly armored being only able to handle up to a .30 cal machinegun, or perhaps a little more.  Their slanted armor and speed were its best defense.  We would have loved to have a gun turreton at least a few of our vehicles ofer the parapit armor.

One thing that is wrong is the tow/winch system.  We had cables, not chains.  I never understood why H.B. put in a chain.

One other is they forgot to have a second bilge vent on the right side.  Unless teh Army only had one.

quick question, is your figure supposed to be wearing jungle boots or stateside boots?  We used both when necessary, but it could be the time period of the figure.

I recently converted this kit into the Air Force M-706 which was a major amount of work. 

I took it to our last club meeting and was told by a another VIet-vet that my model was too clean.  I told him he was thinking Army.  My vehicle was A.F. and we had to clean our vehicles before turning them in each day.

 

 My buddies dad drove V100/M706's escorting convoys in the Pleiku area of Vietnam during 1970. Central highlands area. He told me a lot and showed me many pictures. You could be right on the cleanliness thing. In a bunch of the pics their vehicles were filthy with a lot of rust. In some of the other pics they looked in good shape. I'll try and find some of his pics if photobucket will cooperate. The figure is wearing jungle boots with the green nylon or canvas panels on the sides. Im going to make a name plate that says December 1970 Pleiku area, something like that.

In my research I read that these vehicles had two bilge pumps that pumped to one bilge drain on the upper left rear side. All the photos tell the same story. Pehaps I'm wrong. I think youre spot on with the chain. It should be a cable but HB supplies such a nice PE chain I opted to use it. Another thing I forgot is the siren speaker on the right front side. It was a red speaker and it's in all my buddies dads photos. I just realized that. Damn it. LOL. I'll have to make a few changes. Also there should be some exhaust shrouds coming out of the engine vent in the back. Sometimes they got damaged and were removed however.   

Where can I see your V100. That's the one with the open topped parapet, right?

Here's a pic of my buddies dad. He's the driver.

Gamera

Well, I have no idea how accurate anything here is but the armoured car looks good and the figure really turned out well. Nice work!!! 

 

Thanks man!

Here's a few shots of our 706's:

As you can see some came in a lovely shade of a strange color and others were resplendant in a nice cammoflage pattern.

If the situation was bad enough, the "Devil's Deciple" would come out and act as a rolling control point to free up Base Defense Control.

 Very cool! It's like a foxhole on wheels. Thanks for sharing