 deadhead  | 17 Aug 2020 6:50 a.m. PST |
Yet another new release and a rather imaginative one, from Gringos 40. She is VC and armed with a Moisin-Nagant, I am told
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| Skarper | 17 Aug 2020 7:11 a.m. PST |
Looks like an M1 Carbine to me….very popular weapon with NLF, especially women. Light weight, low recoil etc. I think they came by them from the ARVN though I suspect some were supplied to the Viet Minh when they were fighting the Japanese. Maybe some were sent to Chinese forces and then made their way into the hands of the Vietnamese. |
jammy four  | 17 Aug 2020 8:48 a.m. PST |
thanks for posting Liam!
actually Skarper you are spot
on,my bad…10/10 for observation
..they were useda good deal and the defacto weapon of
choice for many of the lighter built VC
women regards
Ged
gringo40s.com
gringo40s.blogspot.com |
| nnascati | 17 Aug 2020 12:35 p.m. PST |
Ah, that isn't a mortar base plate, it's part of the radio! |
| jammy four | 19 Aug 2020 4:11 a.m. PST |
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 Legion 4 | 19 Aug 2020 9:16 a.m. PST |
Yes, the VC used M1s and in many cases anything they could get. In many cases, especially early in the War. |
| jammy four | 24 Aug 2020 5:20 a.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 24 Aug 2020 9:12 a.m. PST |
Yes, in the early photos they used weapons leftover from the French, US weapons given to the French, as well as from Russian and China. Have seen MAT-49s, PPSs, PPSHs, etc., etc. |
| deadhead | 28 Aug 2020 7:55 a.m. PST |
and here she is in a really nicely done diorama;
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| Legion 4 | 28 Aug 2020 3:46 p.m. PST |
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| jammy four | 29 Aug 2020 2:00 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 03 Sep 2020 9:30 a.m. PST |
and a front view of the first figure now, from Ged. I gather that is a pen or pencil in her left hand. Bit sinister…get it? Sinister…..boom boom. What a wit.
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| jammy four | 13 Oct 2020 5:35 p.m. PST |
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asks a painting service to handle a complicated commission: assembling four plastic kits, getting the magnets right, painting and applying decals.
