Chan's Vietnam Gun truck is a kit bash of the AFV club 5 ton truck and the old Tamiya M113 ACAV kit. He thought it was going to be an easy project but was wrong. The AFV kit is a nice kit but the frame is in individual pieces and he had a tough time keeping it properly aligned. Plus, the instructions were unclear and he had to redo a lot of the frame and suspension. Chan also had to repaint the M113's interior. He first painted it white and then found out that it was a Sea Green color. It was a minor setback. Also, he couldn't find his Vietnam era figures or equipment stash, having a bad habit of putting things in a "safe place" and then can't forgetting where that safe place was. Because of his failure to find his figures, Chan used the kit's figures with resin heads. Rather than his usual oil painting technique on the figure's faces, he tried acrylic paint instead. He feels they look okay but isn't not real happy with the way they turned out.
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