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Jack12477

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  1. They are a spongy like material (rubber ???) from Woodland Scenics, the tree is a white metal bendable casting from them also, as is the white crush stone rubble. The scattered brick is from Pegasus, the cobblestone road is Sculpey dark gray clay, dry brushed with various chalks. The dark brown/black earth seems to be ground up Model Railroad cork roadbed. Thanks !
  2. Okay, I guess I can call this a wrap. Been hampered a bit by the lockdown, had to drag out my leftover Model Railroad scenery stuff to finish it. Aside from maybe darkening the fallen brick in the rubble pile a tad I think it is done (have to wait till the white glue completely dries to do the touchups otherwise things move around to easily).
  3. Okay, I found the 3 variants I built years ago. Here's the 3, the one on left is I think the one you are building EG , middle one is the Vietnam era one I almost include in my M16 Diorama, and the one on right is the TOW version which seems to be missing a few parts as is the one on the left - missing machine gun. And all are showing the wear and tear, dirt and grime of mounths on the battlefield. Thanks for letting me post them, EG
  4. I'm not so sure about the "beautiful" part, it was from my very early days of armor modeling. I will try and get a photo of it/them and post it.
  5. I think I also have that same kit in my completed models stash. Will have to do a little rummaging. I know I have 3 variants of the Jeep.
  6. That's because he was still sleeping, Lou. Cool looking model, Craig.
  7. Must be one of those flatlanders who has never driven in the mountains 😁😁😁 white knuckle time ???
  8. Nice, Craig. I like that subtle shading effect.
  9. So does my Admiral or she slices them with a slice of mozzarella cheese and some seasoning
  10. Both! And as pizza toppings and sausage/peppers/onions. It's a taste, texture thing with tomatoes, ketchup, pizza and spaghetti sauce okay, raw / stewed / fried , no go. Adirondack blue/purple potatoes
  11. I picked up a "cat scat mat" from a Garden Supply Company in Vermont. Think of a 12 inch square barb wire mat, except it is all plastic with sharp pointy spikes. Place it on top of the soil, plants grow up thru it, but critters get their feet spiked when they step on it. It comes in 6 ft long x 1 ft wide rolls you can cut to size.
  12. I have 2 types of tomatoes, Cherry, or grape, and "Big Boys", both are for the Admiral, I don't like tomatoes. The Cherry mature early and produce a lot of fruit, all the other varieties don't produce much fruit and don't mature until almost September even tho I plant them in May and they get 8 plus hours of full sun . Fried green tomatoes, no way ! Fried green peppers, yea ! I have red and green Bell peppers. Tried some of the other pepper varieties last year but did not get much yield, so went back to Bell variety. The purple potatoes, yes that is their color - skin and meat, are unusual but have a very strong potatoe flavor/taste. Found some at a local farm stand a few years back and tried them, decided to plant my own.
  13. For the virus or cats ? I was thinking a few Claymores for the cats, but decided that was too drastic
  14. I have 3 raised beds for veggies, 1 - 3 ft x 3 ft, 2 - 3 ft x 6 ft. The 3x3 is tomatoes, peppers, bush beans; 1- 3x6 is all potatoes, red skins and purple aka Adirondack potatoes, have a purple skin and purple meat very tasty; other 3x6 is beets, broccoli, egg plant and kolhrabi. I use the "square foot" gardening technique for the veggies. The flowers are the peripheral gardens, we just augmented them with a variety of phlox, coneflowers, Bee Balm (Manarda), coral bells, coleus. The flower gardens are well established, we just augment them from year to year.
  15. Still here! Just waiting for supplies ! Also got a little sidetrack, planting veggies and flowers; had to build a 2 ft high fence around a raised bed to keep the feral cats from digging it up. We are sloooooooowly coming out of lockdown, but now I have to remember to put a "face covering" in my pocket along with a handkerchief
  16. My first car was a '65 Mustang convertible, 6 cylinder, 3 speed on floor, manual top - no motor but not needed because top was so well balanced you could raise/lower with one hand, only drawback was you had to exit the car to do it. Color was Twilight Turquoise, depending on light either sea green or green. Great car.
  17. Well, here's the Villa all painted and assembled. The last wall had to be re-epoxied because the 1st attempt did not hold. Now for some weathering, then create the scene. Having some difficulty locating the building materials I want, most are out of stock at the moment, so progress will be a little slow.
  18. I will be adding some type of damage, just not sure how I wiil present it yet. Still messing with the basic colors right now.
  19. Thanks, Edward. The box art is a little vague looking at the color photo. I was experimenting with unbleached titanium white, which is kinda like parchment in color. Have to play around still.
  20. While I am trying to figure out a suitable display for the tank, I decided to at least drag the Verlinden Battle Damage Villa kit out of the stash and at least paint it. Not sure how I want to depict the stucco but I hit the whole thing with a coat of Tamiya Fine Gray Primer first. The started painting in the exposed bricks. The various other colors on the stucco are just test paint strips for now. For the brick I first applied a coat of Liquitex Red Black acrylic then over painted somewhat random bricks with Lifecolor Terracotta. More work to be done and more testing of color schemes. Then the whole thing has to be Epoxied together. It's 3 " x 4" x 3 " x 3' wide per panel.
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