June Meeting Report - Model Photos

Here's a list of the models shown at the meeting. Please email me if you know the missing names.

M60 with mine roller by David Bozarth (3X)
M3 Light tank by Vince Barrale
Tiger I by ?
Pz IV by David Bozarth
Chinese APC by (Kevin Boggs)
British Tank by Mike Stucker
Munition Schlepper by ?
German Ht by Vince Barrale
US Halftrack by (Paul Sacco)
Russian KV-1 by Tom Moon
2.8cm AT Guns by Tom Moon (2X)
Russian T-34 by ?

If is walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a DUKW.

This photo has a container of sand from Omaha Beach, thanks to Frank Stumpo for sharing it with me.
Tom

Here are the photos for the  shelf Queen contest.
Tom

Trumpeter Panzerjagerwagen

This is the Trumpeter Panzerjagerwagen. I did this one out of the box as practice for designing my own version in the near future. This seemed to be a good kit, simple, well fit and required little research. I managed to avoid using the photo etched parts for the turret armor plate. The plastic worked just fine for me.

It was painted standard Model Master colors, mixed to provide the green and brown over a tan base which itself was painted over a dark gray primer. The rest was washes and drybrushing.

Vince Barrale

M5 Light Tank‏

Tamiya M5 Light Tank. This is the old kit with the switch and battery holes still in the chassis. This really fit together well, so well in fact that I didn't even need to do any research on the M5, which seems to be a variant of the Stewart.

Notice??? No Additional Stowage.  Yes. I did this out of the box. I like Tamiya kits for that purpose.

I was able to practice some old techniques that I hadn't done in a while. Drew's last presentation inspired me to take that reminiscent step and use powders for mud and muck. I combined that with some grime I had saved. I don't know what it is exactly. Might have been coffee grounds at one time.

I also did the oil washes over the gloss coat and the dot wash over the flat coat. I think you can see the slight color variations and fading of the green.

I added some trashed floral bits onto the hedge cutter with more mud.

Vince Barrale

How Historians Recovered the Only Surviving Nazi "Flying Pencil"

Great article from Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/how-historians-recovered-the-only-surviving-nazi-flyin-1577110261

Incomming!

This diorama of a US Marines camp in Vietnam includes an M113 which was scrap built from Tamiya, Academy and Italeri parts.

Various stowage was added, including some Playboy items from Verlinden Media. I did have to scratch build some of the details added to the M113. This scene was inspired from various old photos both in books and online.

The figures were a combination of Dragon and Verlinden.

Thanks

Vince Barrale

WWI German A7V

Finished Tauro 1/35th scale model. Painted with arylics and weathered with oils and enamels.
Just some quicky pictures taken out on the patio

SdKfz 10/5 Pak 38

Italeri 1/35 scale Demag with Pak 38. The kit was pretty well made and mostly fit well as any Italeri kit. I added some random stowage crates, packs etc. I didn't do any scratch built adders though there were details which could have been easily improved based on the photos I found on the real deal.

Thanks   

Vince Barrale

 

Terrifying GoPro video from tanks in Syria's war zone

Wow...
This is worth seeing. It's an hour long video.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/incredible-footage-from-tanks-in-syrias-warzone-is-utt-1548084560/@caseychan

Question; How does some tanks seems to go in reverse quickly and maneuvers in those treacherous  and narrow streets without missing a beat? Can the driver see anything going backward, on twisty road?

Stalingrad - Berilin

A very Nice Diorama by  Oleg Lanskoy  from Russia. Sometimes I just wonder at the talent!!

Go here for more of this dio!!

http://en.diorama.ru/gallery/dioramas/4697/

Go here for more of this webpage

http://en.diorama.ru/

M4A4 Sherman

This was the Cyber Hobbies kit, Orange Box as some of you describe it. Pretty nice kit overall. I had a few minor construction issues due to not sufficiently studying relevant photos but I worked it out. As noted in my demo, I painted with Enamels, Lacquer dullcoat and sea I the decals with acrylic Gloss (Floor Wax).

The stowage is from various resin, plastic, paper, string etc. Most of this was base painted separately the oil washed with the model after attaching. The oils were used as a light wash to tone down the Green color, then dullcoated before applying variations  of heavier washes of burnt umber an black.

At the last meeting I demoed the dot streaking using blue, white and burnt umber for fading affects. Final dullcoated, then did some drybrushing to highlite.

Overall, I am pretty happy with the result. 
Vince Barrale

 

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