A Day at the Beach, Another "Girls Just want to Have Fun" build.

 I thought I had already posted this. My apologies to my fans. 

This is from the 1/35 Takom Blitz kit Panzer III M along with the YUFAN girls in the DAK. 

The Palm tree was from one of those rubbery plastic toys that I enhanced a bit.  I made the beach towels. The umbrellas were from China. Had to paint with lacquers as the paper repelled any water based paints.

The Takom kit was OK and I am happy with my weathering to depict some light wear, not totally beat up. Yes I know that this version was NOT used by the DAK, thus how the girls found the beach instead. 

These YUFAN girl kits are always fun to paint up and add a touch of humor to any tank. Look it over and you figure out a good story. Don't forget to include the bucket if iced Heinekens. Finally we know what the Buckets were for. 

The base is a sheet of Styrofoam, the cheap stuff, with a thin balsa wood trim. Don't forget to check out the video on U-Tube

Vince B.  2-25-2023😎 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFEnZgGEvzE

M35 A2 Cargo Truck

 This 1/35 scale AFV kit is pretty old, and well represents AFV as Awful Fit Value. Took a lot of re-working to get the rear wheels in place. Good reason for groundwork.

I added plenty of resin and plastic stowage bits. Special details I added were the tow / wench cable, ammo can straps on the gun ring, and polished the mirrors.      

 

 Actually, I think the improvised stowage came out better than the truck.

Since the truck and resin was so heavy I didn't want to add any wooden base. The groundwork is directly on Jasons dense Foam. I painted with a craft acrylic paint mixed with Mod Podge.

Its not going to win any awards so I will see how it does on E-Bay.

Vince B. 2-20-23

New Tokyo, Samurai City

 The following was inspired by the movie 'Mortal Engines' so New Tokyo is not one of the Traction Citys in the movie. I was intrigued by the concept and decided a few years ago to create a similar effect, keeping in line with the Steam Punk theme. 

  

I started by planning out components from my scrap boxes. I purchased some 1/700 scale architectural structures and started cutting them up. All of the tank hulls, wheels and tracks were mismatched from leftovers and scraps, no actual kits were harmed in the making of this project. 

 

 And so it grew in size and configuration. Many of the interior details became obscured as the city grew. I began planning lighting to help bring to life and show some of the details.

 

Finally it was taking shape. After several re-configurations and fit and light tests, I decided on the final version. Up till this point it was all just experiment.

 
Next came the details to fill in the story and New Tokyo was developed as the Samurai City.

 
The separate modules needed to be designed to fit loosely together to take into account the future terrain groundwork. Wiring had to be planned and continuous fit tests with each improvement.

https://youtu.be/tfvowuLT3V0

And now it is finally done.

Vince B.  2-20-23

M2 Bradley

 This is the old Tamiya 1/35 scale kit with some interior details. I did ad some more interior stuff such as cables and other misc boxes and stuff on the ceiling as in the real thing, though most of it is improv.

I only added some stowage to the exterior with some tape straps for tie downs. 

Vince B. 1-29-23

Winterblitz 2023 Museum of the American GI.

 Just a few birds eye views of the show in the museum. This is the biggest ARMOR show in TX.

Abandoned

 For the HAC Club February WINTER build, I created a scene to depict a broken down and abandoned ammunitions / supply trailer, rusted out and buried in ice and snow.

The trailer accessory kit is by Italeri. Not sure, but the dented oil barrel could be from Tamiya.

I used a variety of Ice and Snow products from Tamiya, Mod Podge, Green stuff etc. 

This is the first time I used a block of XPS insulation foam as a base. Worked out well. It takes less space than a wooden base and much lighter weight. 

I hope you all get chills looking at it. 

Vince B. 1-1-23   (Unique Scrap Built Models)

Polish PL-01 Prototype

 This is the TAKOM kit out of the box. Really simple construction and rather boring.  Al I could do to improve the build was to give it a special camo paint job and weather it as if it had been deployed.

I am happy with the outcome. The model is still out of the box.

The street / sidewalk are plaster casts from Dioramas Plus. 

For the multilevel camo pattern, I cut strips of masking tape into block patterns and between color applications connected the dots. There were 4 levels of tape mask.

Vince B. 1-1-23  (Unique Scrap Built Models)

Autocannone 3RO

 This is a 1/72 Italeri kit of an Autocannone consisting of a Lancia 3RO truck and a 90/53 anti-aircraft gun. The figures came with the kit, but are probably a bit oversized. (Six foot tall WWII Italians. I don't think so.) The shell crates were scratch built. Found the netting in one of my parts drawers.

The kit is basically a snap kit. The truck in made from styrene, but the figures and canon are soft plastic. the soft plastic does take paint well, though. I did prime evrything  with Tamiya rattle can lacquer.

Belgian Gendarmerie, Occupied Rheinland, 1919

 The armored car is a Belgian Minerva from Copper State Models. Excellent kit. The figures are also from Copper State. The vignette shows a Belgian Gendarmerie (Police) vehicle and its crew in the Rheinland of Germany in 1919.

The grass is static grass but did not go down as hoped for. I need to replace my useless, cheap, Amazon purchased static grass applicator with a better more expensive one. The grass did not stand up properly (if at all). Also, the color is a bit brighter than I had hoped for, but its what I had. Looks like a lawn.

There are also some small Eduard photoetch flowers in the grass, but they are barely visible in the photos.