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Jack12477

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  1. Thanks, Edward. Yea it was done over a span of years. I might add that all of the painting with the exception of the HumVee and USMC amphibian, were done with a Badger airbrush and Floquil's military color paints; the soft edge camo was done freehand without masking. The two exception were brush painted with Vallejo and Tamiya paints. Haven't done any airbrushing in decades, not sure how steady my hand would be now. Have to do some practicing and relearn the skill.
  2. Ok, Lou, Edward, EGilman - part II of the Armor collection Modern US Abrams M1, Bradley M2 IFV (2 variants), HumVee, Sgt York Air Defense British Chiefton German WII and Modern German Mardar (I think) APC And that Gentleman concludes the collection - at least for now - probably order some more kits in future.
  3. I found the Tamiya brand to have some really fine detail and they fit together without a lot of gaps or flash to remove. And they were not too expensive, at least here in the States. All the models I have shown are Tamiya.
  4. Yea, one of our parks covers 2,000 acres with probably hundreds of miles of isolated trails but the citidiots decided to fill up the one or two common lawns with hoards of people and no physical distancing, ditto some of the trails. Luckily there are a few trails known only to locals that can be used.
  5. We don't have any of those type restrictions up here. I can go out in my yard or even take a walk with admiral in neighborhood. Hell the streets in my neighborhood are deserted, only 1 or 2 people out walking.. Btw those last photos are from last year already loaded onto PC. I can still go out for groceries, doctors, post office, even parks, except the idiots descended on 2 state parks in throngs and now they are closed, spoiling it for the rest of us. I may be in NY STATE but not NY City Metro area. I'm over 100 miles from Manhattan island.
  6. Yea, last November-December when we had our 1st snow, long before the plaque arrived.
  7. This one was documented in a Build Log here a while back USMC LVTP7A1 in winter camo before I added the decals
  8. Thanks. I will get the other armor photographed tomorrow if the weather is good and the sun is out. Best to take outside and photograph in shade of house under clear sky as I did above
  9. Continuing on Variants on the M113 This is what's been published to-date - more to be photographed later
  10. Ok, Lou, Edward, Egilman, here's a few to start Soldiers Germany's Thor 60cm mortar - both variants HO Scale (1:87) rail car and 1:35 Model with loader German anti-aircraft self propelled armor Variants on the US half-track This was the 1st M16 model - one in diorama is 2nd
  11. A lot of them have already been posted in other forums but I will see what I can do. Yea, I am waiting for someone to bring me a cake with a hacksaw blade hidden inside so I can break out of prison !
  12. Ok then, guess I have to unpack a whole bunch of plastic storage bins then and empty a few display shelves I'm assuming you mean the stash of completed models. Cuz the other stash of incomplete/unstarted models is not very impressive.
  13. All of the WWII photos I have ever seen never showed the caricature peering over the wall, all I ever saw was the slogan. Besides I am not that good an artist - had all I go do just to keep hand steady enough to write the slogan without smearing it all over the wall. Thanks for the compliments, Lou. Reinforcements from rear aka stash. I probably should photograph the stash . . . Yikes !
  14. Well I knew there was something missing from the diorama. Took me a while to remember it tho (advancing age I guess).. Now that the most famous building tag of WWII has been added to the church walls the diorama is now complete. Thanks for following along and all the helpful comments, critiques, off-topic banter, jokes etc, much appreciated. Stay turned for the next "incarceration" project.
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