Jeep in a Crate for $50!!!!... Done!

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Nice work on this one Gino, definitely a cool conversation piece no matter where you take it! [B]

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Thanks Bill, glad you like it.

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A nice change of pace…really like the LC crate…nice stencil markings for the crate. The workmanship is up to your usual perfection…great discussion piece

Now what I was trying to say before…if you ever have to pack again (hopefully not for a bunch of years yet), you have one model packed and ready to go!!

Rounds Complete!!

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well done! looks like the prototype pictures

just need to find a 1/35 figure that looks like this guy to stand in front and ‘sell’ a warehouse full of them [H]

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Now that is way cool!!

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Thanks for the compliments all. I enjoyed building this as a quick diversion from the normal.

Mike: I thought you may be referring to a quick trip up the east coast in about a month or so. Hmmm… [;)]

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Excellent job as usual.[t$t]

Another odd project done well.[:D]

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Very nicely done! Definietly a unique piece!

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I think that’s realy wonderfull, so different from what we normaly see and very neat[snYea][snWow]…cheers…Kenny

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Thanks for the compliments guys. Glad you like it.

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great idea and good job.Ron

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Very unusual, completely awesome and way freakin’ cool!! What a neat subject!!

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Thanks Ron.

Kevin: Thanks, I think. Are you talking about my model or your picture…[:^)] [H]

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That is an awesome and inspiring build! I’m planning on doing one, too. I have almost everything I need. I know this is a long time passed, but do you know if these stencils are still available? And if so, do you have a web address so I can order them? Thanks!

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Thanks for the compliments on my jeep in a crate. It was a fun build. There are no stencils for it though, I didn’t buy them, but made them myself. I used my home printer and rub on decal paper from Papilio Art Supply: http://www.papilio.com/inkjet%20rub%20on%20decal%20decal%20transfer%20paper%20media.html

Good luck with yours and be sure to post some pics of it here at FSM.

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Considering that the original post is an old item it has rattled some old memory cells. I remember seeing crates the size of these on a pier in New York shortly after the war being sent somewhere overseas no doubt. And I do remember the markings on them indicating that a jeep was inside. I also remember the adds in Popular Mechanics or some similar magazine of how you could get the list of available surplus Jeeps.

In the mid 1960s I had a tour of duty with Naval Beach Group 2 in Norfolk. Part of the people we were responsible for were Beach Masters. Each Beach Master unit had assigned to it, among other vehicles a DUKW. When one wore out or broke down we would requisition a new one from a storage facility at Quantico. The DUKW would arrive completely set up on a flat bed trailer. Urban legend had it that there still were DUKWs in crates at Quantico and the one we were getting had been taken out of a crate. I never saw one in a crate but there certainly were brand new ones coming from there.

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Hey ;

How about sending it to Vela Lavella for one Colonel Lard -You know The guy in charge of Pappy Boyington’s Marine Aviation group ? LOL T.B.

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A DUKW in a crate would be a neat dio. Who is going to build that?

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Unique and awesome. This is something I also have never head of, or seen. I bet this looks really sweet in your growing collection! :slight_smile:

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Thanks Mike. It does look good next to my other jeeps.