Egilman

Just a suggestion brother, don't forget the starboard 20mm cannon, will look kinda strange with only one....

Been cookin long enough to know you only handle one boiling pot at a time.....

I hope it turns out well, that's a lot of tiny tiny parts......

Well it was kinda like christmas in June brother... Now comes the hard part.... (some of those parts are microscopic)

Thank You Mark, I do try and research thoroughly when I'm doing a specific theme..... It's appreciated...

And another present in the mail today..... The rest of my truck parts.... the Tires and hubs for the trailer, the hubs for the tractor, gladhands and diamond plate..... So I'm pretty well set to continue my Bandit build as well....... EG

Well lookie what showed up in the mail today.... My cockpit parts! ....... And the Eduard Lockheed C-2 ejection seat.... look like I'm going to have plenty of PE to go in the parts box I didn't realize that they gave you a harness along with the seat... but anyway the seatbelt/harness set is a full complete set of harnesses than the set that came in the Brassin seat package. I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to use and from where.... I should come out of this with a pretty complete detailed rocking chair for this bird.... Restarting this after a bit more research.... EG

I know, I'm looking at one of them Cannon camera kits they are advertising all over the place... keep this one for the day trips and use the new one for the serious photography.... Cameras are a whole world unto themselves....

I don't doubt their existence, three little parts turn any Glock pistol into a select fire machine gun.... (true story) I found them on evilbay in Australia, and yeah the crew is available from China if you want to wait a month of sundays..... As far as crew in scale goes, a 6' man in 1/32 scale is 2.25 inches, in 1.35 scale he is 2.058 inches just shy of 5'6" in 1/32nd scale, (the average man is 5'8") the two scales cross over on many things figures are one of them... I don't know if I'm ready to do a crew yet.... when I do it will probably be South Pacific WWII era one of the various invasions.... And Thanks Brother....

Thank You Ed, I do try and get accurate information, and artillery has all it's little bits needed for it to function that one seldom sees in the usual photos... It's appreciated my friend...

Thank you Lou.... Yep when they landed in the Elmira mission, they brought 24 guns with them, when they were finally able to collect equipment after the landing under fire, (after dusk) they were only able to get 6 operable guns together to send to the MLR.... They eventually recovered most of them after the service personnel got there, but they used what they had and fought like hell... I tried to represent that.... Gradually as I find my modeling muse restarting, I'm getting closer and closer to doing one from the heart..... memorializing a battle my father was in..... he saw a lot of situations like this.... desperate deadly times..... and lived to not tell the tales..... Each one I'm doing opens a door so to speak allows me to touch on more...... You know where I'm eventually headed brother, I believe that a "Slick" has landed on my door step, and the ordnance department has aquired an XM-23 setup to add to the vignette..... Yes Helicopters eliminated the Glider troops, made combat insertions much faster, but also brought their own heartache and miseries.... I will be modeling one in the future.... After so many years out of the hobby I'm finding that my muse has changed from building neat pretty hardware and filling shelves to telling a story...... I enjoy it more this way.... Thank you brother, Greatly appreciated.... EG

Thanks brother Yeah I thought it would bridge the gap between ordering parts and them getting here..... and besides, I's kinda fond of drabby green with target markers..... especially when they illustrate some of the hurculean acts our boys perform in service to our country.... Like landing in enemy controlled LZ's having to dig your weapons out of the wreckage and then fix them before you can use them..... Glider troops don't ever seem to get mentioned in the same statement about jumping troops... but they both had their special kind of bravery..... Any way, this is my D-Day tribute to those who served just as hard, but seldom get mentioned....... Thank you...

Thank you Jack, As far as the camera, it is really old, takes nice general pictures but really doesn't do details well, 2.2mpx. Focal length just isn't there for real sharp closeups. Todays basic standard is 30 mpx using a macro...... It's a great little camera I'm still going to use it I just need something with a little bit more capability for the fine shots... Thank you...

So, where do you get this "Blue Tack"? that type of soft edge effect I used to do with sponges or elevated stencils...... this method looks so much easier....

I'm sure, if your dad was there, he would give you a hug..... Beautiful tribute....... Beautiful job my friend...

We get a great opportunity to see what excellent molding and thoughtful design does for painting and shading..... It really looks the part..... Nice work...

Ok, Time to finish this up.... This is where I last left it... Basic assembly complete..... And, After adding the necessary mundane equipment that a howitzer needs to operate on the battle field and giving it something to shoot when it get where it going, I wind up with this........ Well the closeups didn't quite come out as sharp as I would have liked, I still need to get a better camera. (or learn how to actually use it) Anyway she is off to her next firing position, as soon as the crew shows up..... I call it finished... Howzitzer #4, Battery "B" 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. The evening of June 6th 1944....... two miles northeast of St Mere Eglise, France..... 76 years ago, two days from now.... I hope you all enjoyed the journey..... EG Thank you for the discussion, comments and likes.... They are always appreciated..... Next up, resuming Blue Jay 4..... (assuming the parts arrive in the next day or two)

Now that is downright purrr.......rty.... 👍 (dig the manifold pressure gauge mounted right there on the manifold)

I did 1/4 mile oval racers in superstock claiming class.... So I understand.... you go and look, observe how everyone else does it (cause you have to take the plans and fit them within the rules of the class also) then try like heck not to go outside the rules.... Thankfully, we don't have rules building models.....

When you build a full sized kit car, they give you the pieces, tell you where they go and leave the rest of it to you to figger out..... Pocher kits follw the same paradigm, they make the basic parts some of them fit nice some of them do not, some of them are beautiful out of the package, some of them need major reworking, most of them depend on other parts to say where the particular part your working on goes.... Think of it as building a full sized kit car, it takes about the same amount of time, (and the same level of talent) to do it right..... But when someone comes and looks at your finished kit, they react the same as if you pulled up in a show winning Lamborghini/Fiaro.... Literally stunned... I have two pocher kits, even at this date, they are way beyond my talent level to do with the finish you are watching here....

Amen brother.... I have some more modern stuff that won't need a thing to build beautiful models and some ancient things that need everything...... The hobby has advanced that much over the last few decades...... That being said, the molding on this kit is some of the crispest I have ever seen....... very nice kit....

Me I prefer to find the pissoirs..... {chuckle} (French can be such an interesting language, quaint, fastidious at points, but very definitely direct and to the point....

I'm in..... That looks like a beautifully detailed kit....

Well our govenuer didn't renew his quarrantine order, but replaced it with a safe and sane business re-opening behavior control order..... The admiral was ecstatic, she gets to go back to bingo!!!! except just getting into the place is like entering prison.... they have a guard at the front door, you have to wear a face mask, your id security scanned, then you walk up the entrance ramp where the use facial recognition software to take your temperature and connect your image to your membership card and ID.... If you are too hot, they move you off to one side to "Cool Down" then are sent back through again, if your still too hot, security sends you home with instructions not to return for two weeks...... If you make it through that,they have you seated 6 feet apart and wives/husbands/children/relatives are not allowed to sit together, you have to maintain that 6' apart... you have to wear masks at all times except when eating drinking or smoking and you will be asked to leave if you don't. they have put up plastic barriers between people. Everything the Admiral went there for is eliminated...... (she goes for the social contacts, visiting her friends and such) Of course this is an Indian owned and ran business on reservation property so they are not subject to the govenuers orders, they have come up with this all on their own and to be honest? it is three times as open as the governuer is allowing.... But at least we aren't locked down at home anymore.... we just can't go anywhere to do anything.... Insane times my friends.....

Hi Mike, I'm in.... 1/48th is a good scale....