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My US Army Train

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#1

I got the K-line locomotive. Kept blowing a fuse my TE on track power, so converted it to battery. Ran it this morning for an hour or so and it did fine. Pretty happy with my Army train. I was in the Transportation Corps and was trained on their trains some at my Officers Basic course in 67. I made the Sealand trailer, had them in convoys in Nam. Metal tank came from Hobby Lobby, I was in the local guard unit after Nam, we had tanks. The tank cars are USA(got one with the loco) and the boxcar(battery car) is Aristo.
http://www.largescalecentral.com/gallery/index.php?level=picture&id=3227
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#2

Looks good Jerry. I didn’t know K-line made large scale. What scale is K-line 1/32?

#3

Yes I believe so

#4

Not sure, it seems to look okay with the Aristo boxcar. Being that old of a make, I sort of thought maybe it would be 1/24 or 1/22?

#5

I finished up the Revell 1/32nd scale Cobra model and got it mounted on a flatcar. Wood beams besides the skids and going across. Rotors are tied down with string I coated with liquid dull coat to keep them from sagging in the humidity. Used to have these choppers accompany my convoys in Vietnam on QL19 to Pleiku.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Army%20Train/ArmyCobraMnt.JPG)

#6

All ya need now are some steel sided gons with 50 cals mounted in them and plenty of sand bags…:wink:

#7

Darn Revell…missing TOW Missiles (Anti-Armor) and TOW Sight Unit under nose…I work for the company that developed all that stuff. We used bailing wire and duct tape to install the first system on a Cobra in Vietnam… marines still fly it but the Super Cobra Model.

#8
mike miller said:
Darn Revell...missing TOW Missiles (Anti-Armor) and TOW Sight Unit under nose....I work for the company that developed all that stuff. We used bailing wire and duct tape to install the first system on a Cobra in Vietnam.... marines still fly it but the Super Cobra Model.
I don't doubt that the Marines still fly with bailing wire and duct tape. Probably some bubble gum, too. They are very good at make do. :)
#9

Not to be rivet counting, but wouldn’t the US Army fly an Apache as well?

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jebouck/apache.jpg)

#10

Apaches are not early 70’s era that Jerry seems to be modelling.

Just sayin’…

tac

#11

Marines don’t have Apaches as they are un-reliable and maintenance costs too high. The old adage applies: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Army did junk almost all of their Cobra,. For awhile they were relegated to the National Guard.

#12
mike miller said:
Marines don't have Apaches as they are un-reliable and maintenance costs too high. The old adage applies: If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Army did junk almost all of their Cobra,. For awhile they were relegated to the National Guard.
As I remember it, the Marines raided the Army junkyard, stole a bunch of junked Cobras, glued on another engine, and made them reliable tank killers.

Of course, I may be biased. :lol:

#13

(http://www.212veterans.org/images/loach_rear_view.jpg)

One of these would aldo be used

#14

My army train is limited to items that I used in my convoys/time in Vietnam. Cobras would accompany them sometimes. I have a Huey coming also, rode in them quite a bit It is a diecast with Marine markings, but I have plenty of decals left from the Cobra for changing it to Army. The tank I am using is because I was in the local guard unit after Nam, finishing up my 20 as a tank commander. Never did ride in a Loach Dave, watched one right above our compound one day, he had a mini-gun one one skid, when he let it off, peppering the hill side, it would veer , he would bring it back and let off another blast. They still hit us that night though.

#15

Dave Marconi said:

(http://www.212veterans.org/images/loach_rear_view.jpg)

One of these would aldo be used

Is that a Hughes?

#16

Yep. 500-MD built in Culver City.

#17

Cool …thought so…
mind you I was only hatched in 1970?
:wink:

#18
tac said:
Apaches are not early 70's era that Jerry seems to be modelling.

Just sayin’…

tac


I didn’t realize the Cobra’s were that early either

#19
David Russell said:
Cool ...thought so.... mind you I was only hatched in 1970? ;)
Still frikken wet behind the ears.................:)
#20

By June 1967, the first AH-1G HueyCobras had been delivered.

tac