"20mm Gama Goat - Troop of Shewe" Topic

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Troop of Shewe	08 Aug 2014 10:26 a.m. PST
new blog update with this strange little beast. Updetailed S&S Resin cast. blog: troopofshewe.blogspot.co.uk more pics up on flickr
Major Mike	08 Aug 2014 5:30 p.m. PST
Looks great, you just need a pair of earmuffs for the driver.
shaun from s and s models	09 Aug 2014 6:22 a.m. PST
yes a great bit of modelling. when I first said I was doing this vehicle almost every email I got was from an ex us army soldier who all said how noisy it was!
Sigwald	09 Aug 2014 3:29 p.m. PST
Very nice! I drove one of those while with the 7th ID in the late 70's. Yup, they are so loud you are issued with noise suppression headsets.
Legion 4	10 Aug 2014 11:53 a.m. PST
Nice modelling ! I remember most our M561s spent a lot of time in the motor pool …
Brad Jenison	10 Aug 2014 11:51 p.m. PST
I had a platoon of towed Vulcans in the 80s with Goats as my prime movers. Loud as Sigwald says, and hard to get into and out of, especially if you had the canvas on them. Ours were pretty reliable though, unlike Legion's
Legion 4	11 Aug 2014 8:04 a.m. PST
I was in the 101 and we kept dropping them from aircraft or sling-loading them under choppers … so that may have had something to do with it. I remember, the Riggers wanted to practice dropping them from aircraft. And we were requested to send one over. The Bn XO told me as the S-3 Air, he didn't want to see this one come back to the motorpool. It was a nightmare to keep FMC. I told him, I can't guarentee it. But based on the other attempts at dropping a Goat, we shouldn't have much to worry about … Damn thing landed like it was in a training film !!!! The Riggers also tried to perfect dropping M274 Mules we had in our TO&E back then. They usually "crashed and burned" so to speak. When the Riggers told me to come to the airfield and pick up our Mules. I asked how many drivers I should bring ? He said, just bring a big truck with an empty bed …
Lion in the Stars	11 Aug 2014 10:18 a.m. PST
I was in the 101 and we kept dropping them from aircraft or sling-loading them under choppers … so that may have had something to do with it. I remember, the Riggers wanted to practice dropping them from aircraft. And we were requested to send one over. The Bn XO told me as the S-3 Air, he didn't want to see this one come back to the motorpool. It was a nightmare to keep FMC. I told him, I can't guarentee it. But based on the other attempts at dropping a Goat, we shouldn't have much to worry about … Damn thing landed like it was in a training film !!!! Murphy strikes again! Whenever you want the object destroyed, it emerges unharmed, and when you don't want it destroyed it gets wrapped around a tree or two…
Legion 4	11 Aug 2014 4:43 p.m. PST
It's Karma !