What’s In The Box: M113 APC Platoon
August 8, 2013 by warzan
The guys sit down to have a look at one of Warren's favorite kits from the entire Flames of War Vietnam range, the M113 APC Platoon. These light versatile machines look great and you can make six different vehicle types from the one box. How cool is that!
Here’s the run down on what you can win:
Prize 1: US Rifle Company
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
2 x Rifle Platoon VUS712
1 x Machine gun Platoon VUS708
1 x Mortar Platoon VUS705
Dice and Tokens VE003 VE004
Crashed Huey VE107
Loach VUSBX04
Prize 2: PAVN Army
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
Dice and Objective VE002 VE101
Infantry HQ VPABX06
Infantry VPABX07
Weapons Company VPABX08
Divisional Fire Support VPABX09
Local Forces Company VPABX10
To win all you have to do is comment on anything that we send out this week and at the end we’ll pull all the comments in to one big pot and pick two winners before announcing them on not this coming Weekender but the one following it.
So get commenting and enjoy the week!
Amazing miniatures. Really love all the options in the box
I built a Tamiya kit of one of these troop carriers as a nipper. I love em!
All they are missing are some sponsons for heavy machine guns 🙂
look cool, any idea how useful some of these variants are in-game?
loving the amount of variation from this one kit 🙂
that is definitely a nice kit
Rhino’s for the win
I don’t know why but I have always liked apcs, and mech enfantry.
This is one of my favourite plastic kits of all time!
Gareth is definitely brave for fielding that force. Honestly, though, those are so amazing looking who can blame him for trying?
Nice kits. FoW or Bolt Action….too hard to decide.
My friend laid it out quite nicely for me.
If you favour tanks, then you should go for Flames of War.
If you favour infantry, then you should go for Bolt Action.
This helped me with the thinking a bit.
The Rhino’s older brother.
Great looking kit. Lots of options.
NOW Where are the Dusters!!!! (M40s) Luv’d those things for clearing some jungle!
A super dooper little kit. Forget the Huey copters, go where the grunts are!
give me !
These bad boys are next on the list to buy, if the wife lets me lol if not il sneak them in somewhere lol
Lovely looking 15mm Rhinos.
It’s a wonder GW hasn’t taken the US Army to court
I have this kit and they really are great.
My favourite transports, awkward death traps, but reliable and working to date.
hey warren convert these to 40k unit’s!!!
with a little bit of conversion work those could be epic scale rhinos
I was waiting for this unboxing since Warren was taling about it with Dave…. And right he was.. great vehicles.. great detail… great work , Battlefront ppl
Boughtb the resin ones and they had some problems with the top fitting correctly and the sides were often warped. Being Resing this could easely be solved, but the tops were often too small. Still made some very naice models. The plastics just blow your mind. Simply put; the best thing after sliced bread 🙂
These M113s could convince me to forget Air Cav. Nice kits.
the real rhino!
PLAAAAAAAASSTIC! WOOOOHOOOOO. Just lovin it. Give me more of these awesome kits Battlefront!
Miniguns rule!
These are so awesome.
Very nice stuff!
Now I’m not sure if I would prefer playing PAVN or Americans. Lots of troops and sturdy Rusian tanks vs. helicopters and this lovely versatile kit. It’s a difficult choice.
Very nice. Charge!
I really, really like this kit. Such a classic APC.
and here are warrens “rhinos” nice tanks but i think i will stay at the vcs 😉
Nice to see so many options from a 15 mm kit. And the extra packs look cool as well!
I do like the flexibility of the build
That has to be the best thing Battlefront have produced yet. Hard plastic with oodles of variants and modelling possibilities.
I am surprised Warren & Co have missed out on a certain Vietnam themed song that many of the community may remember from their childhood: here it is with lyrics :0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnwpEirhiA
Oorah!!
A nice looking kit – particularly with all the options. I’ve got four of the resins ones built, but had to put some greenstuff under the M60 guys to get them to the right height.
Best apc of the 20th century in my opinion 😀
Looks like a great kit!
The versatility of this 15mm plastic tank is amazing!
Most versatility I’ve seen in a single kit before.
The metal box that inspired it all. This APC has inspired even videogames for transportation.
Neat, I’ve always loved the M113 design. Looks great in model form.
Amazing how little these changed between WWII and Vietnam.
awesome stuff! I like the plastic
Here is an amazing fact from ‘Nam, American tunnel rats found one of these APC’s buried in a VC tunnel complex at 30m depth, they were using it as the power generator for the complex and the command radio station. Great kit, me wants to buy one now.
cool APC:s !
That looks awesome. Thanks guys!
random comment to win stuff
Wow, that is a great kit. Hoping to see a lot more plastics coming out.
Love the look of this kit. Great job Battlefront
Nice looking.
These look awesome and so much you can do with them
Love that kit 🙂
Hmm yes, I wonder where the inspiration for the Rhino came from. Really interesting to see that though!
Great kit might have to get one box or two
APC’s seem to add a lot more playable armour to the game. The tanks were there but they are not the typical image of Vietnam as we know it.
The classic image of of the reserve forces coming to the rescue in the back of their buckets under the cover of those 30 and 50 cal MGs is just too good to not want to try out.
nice to see so many options for a small box
These just look cool…really like the look of the Vietnam plastics
Sooooo many options, always good.
Always say FoW Nam as an infantry based genre but these are definitely making me reconsider that!
Love the versatility built into this kit. Would definitely need to buy some more magnets.
I never realised GW ripped of the US Army, or is it the other way round? 🙂
Awesome kit tho, very impressed!
The resin ones were horrible. Warped top hatches, rear hatches that didn’t fit. Horrible.
These ones are fantastic in almost every way. Nice clear detail and a dream to paint. I have only done one test model for a Client but he bought enough to do every option so I have that to look forward to.
These look so good
Ah, love the 113s nice reliable vehicle… not the most comfortable vehicle to ride in, but beats walkin’ the kits look really great!
I do love BF Plastics they are so detailed and look great
Great kits. Someone just needs to adapt it for the Arab-Israeli 73 War.
That is a snazzy kit! I love all the little options, and I’m an absolute sucker for tank riders.
Best theme week yet guys. Thoroughly enjoyed it all. Especially nice touch with the music. And i liked the multiple unboxings spread over the week.
I’m going on a copy+paste mission now to maybe win an army. If not, i’ll be buying one anyway.
If I remember correctly the British contemporary of this was used as a rhino for promoting a 40k game. Iconic APC.
These apc are still used in Australia inside there small dark and stink
Really great kit
Yes it does look like a 15mm rhino, FOW 40k anyone?
Hell have a bit of both….air cav and apc’s. Give them both barrels.
Very versatile kit. More bang for my box!
great minis having a lot of opitions