Manuel Castro
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Manuel calls this diorama "May God Help My Marines..." in honor of Maj. Walter M. Murphy who uttered those words after being mortally wounded on January 31, 1968. In it, a squad of Marines make their way down a street in Hue and come upon a M247 Mule with a 106mm recoilless rifle. The driver has been wounded by a mortar round and a Navy corpsman tends to him. Manuel built the 1/35 scale scene on a MiniArt base and used a Dragon M247 fitted with a AFV Club barrel for the recoilless rifle. The figures are from Bravo6, Model Master, and Tamiya.