AFV 1/35 M351A Vietnam Gun Truck

I saw this model sitting on the shelve at the local hobby shop.  Never saw anything like it and thought it was cool; really tough looking.  Enjoy Vietnam era subjects for many years so this kit fit the bill.  I had to purchase it.  I had taken some years off to try out some other hobbies such as RC planes, and related activities.  I started building some simple ship models in our living room for my son to play with.  Well these simple models re-kindled the old flame for model making.  The bug had bit once more and I was ready to get crazy over model building again.  This was the 1st kit I purchased as a result of the re-kindled desire.  Although I did not build it for almost a year after that purchase due to a 9 month long ship build of the battleship USS Massachusetts.  Once I got around to it and back to this model I had a good time building.  My 1st truck model ever of a military truck in this scale.  It is not OOB.  I purchase some after-market photo-etch, and did some scratch building here and there, although this was minimal.  I do not recall if the soldiers are from this kit?  I believe another 1st for this kit is it's the 1st AFV brand kit I ever built.  It was high detailed, engineered well, and a bit on the complex side especially the suspension assembly shown in last picture.