Reviews for Uniforms and Equipment of US Military Advisors in Vietnam: 1957-1972

The average rating for Uniforms and Equipment of US Military Advisors in Vietnam: 1957-1972 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-25 00:00:00 Jared Humes Some good ideas, but the big failure here is most of the "projects" they describe are not described very well and barely illustrated. A how-to book should really show some step-by-step pictures, while this mostly showed unrelated pictures (of really nice-looking miniatures and buildings, but unrelated to the projects in the text). This is really probably aimed at experienced modelers, not beginners. Also, no effort was made to explain to American audiences what equivalent mateirals nad products might be. I happen to know that "miliput" is a sort of epoxy putty, and PVA is what we'd call white ("Elmer's") glue, and so on, but as small as the market for this sort of thing is, I'd think they could bother to provide to provide a glossary or something.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-26 00:00:00 Devora Romo A nicely designed but short collection of uniform patches collected from classified military projects. The author tries to interpret the patches to derive information about the nature of the projects. For example, a lot of them have six stars on them, which he suggests refers Area 51 (5+1, get it?) in Nevada. I don't buy all of his speculations but I do respect that there are a few of the patches on which he just admits he doesn't know what the hell they are for. A perfect little book to thumb through.