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You really bring your figures to life with your excellent detail painting and photo work. Nice job!!

Wonderful detail AL!!!

Sweet!!!

Looks good Al, nice job I like it. Chris

Love it Mark. This one came out great. Now I'm pretty sure I triple dog dared you at one point way back when, so get going on that M40 Big Shot.. :Smile-tongue:

Nice job Mark, As a former sailor I personally love the dixie cup hats.

Well done Ron, That is a lot of parts for 1/72 scale. One of the reason I steer clear of small scalle and only do 1/35 scale. Too Tiny!!!!

One of my all time favoret tanks.

Interesting!!!!

I sooooo want to do a review on that KV-122.

Happy birthday to you. And try not to sniff too much tube glue, as I see you are well stocked on that one. HUMMMM production secret maybe...Hummmmmm

Yes it is posted with the event in the Upcoming events page of the web site. Chris

Hello everybody, IPMS Champlain Valley(Plattsburg, NY) and Mount Mansfield Modelers are hosting CANAM CON 11 on April 13, 2013 being held at Chamels Hump Middle School in Richmond , VT. The contest site is just outside of Burlington, Vt off of I-89. The Theme this year is Green Mountain (Vermont) any subject related to Vermont, the Green Mountain State in any era. There will be awards for this theme for best Aircraft, Armor, Ship, Figure,Automotive, and Diorama. Other special awards include: Best military Subject with canadian Markings Best Corvette '63' - '67' (Sting Ray - 50th Anniversary year) Best War of 1812 Subject Best of Class: Aircraft, Auto, Armor, Ship, Figure, Diorama, Space/Sci-Fi Junior Awards People's choice and Judges Best Of Show And of course 1,2,3, and OOB awards in all Categories. CANAM CON draws modelers from all over New England, New York, and Canada. So please come and join us in beautiful Vermont and enjoy the show. Please see the IPMS Web Site section on upcoming events for more info. Sincerely, Chris Graeter Show Chairman

Welcome Kalle! I love hear for other people around the world and how they go about building models. I'm a armor modeler :army7: myself. Funny that you have a interest in post war US NAvy aircraft. I have been around them for a long time. I'm a veteran of the US Navy having served on Aircraft carriers as a catapult chief :gray-plane: . ABE was my rating in the Navy, it stands for Aviation Boatswian Mate Equipmentman (Catapults & Arresting Gear). So ask away if you want. Again welcome aboad glad to have you. :Smile_sceptic: Chris

Wow, Great collection of models. Monty's caravan really stands out. You know when I said keep' um' coming I didn't expect this many. I swear you have a model production factory in your back yard. Great job Mark, really nice section to look at. :m1helmet:

Shannon, First Welcome aboard!!!! Second I would like to echo what Gil said. IPMS is NOT about building for a contest. It is about the FUN and enjoyment that all of us here get out of this hobby. I can see that you personally get most of your joy from helping and watching your two children build models. Don't give up on yourself. ALL of us started somewhere and to be honest most of us really stunk as model builders to start out. This is why most of our early builds met the firecracker fate or somehow found themself crashed into something. Stick with it,there is sooooooooooooo much talent here and everybody is more then willing to share that with you. Just ask!!! :m1helmet: Chris Graeter

Great stuff there Mark. :m1helmet: Still don't know how you work on carpet?

I like your collection. I have all of these in my stash. The Jadgerpanzer can be built with either the long or short barrel. The best thing about these kits and one of the reasons they are so sought after is that they come with a Shep Paine diarama sheet that he did for each kit to help promote them. These diarama's had a lasting effect on most modelers even to this day. The scarey thing is that Shep only had a week to built each kit and put it into a diarama. Talk about skill and craftmanship. One of the hobbies true masters at work. Thanks for sharing Ron!!!! Chris

Well you are right about one thing it is always a parade of new models when you post on here. I aIways pull out my lawn chair and enjoy the show. I think you have completed more models here then I did all of last year. I know I have said that before, I'm sure of it. Anyway as always great job Mark. I see that you are doing more weathering these days. It looks great. Makes you models feel the part more. Thanks for sharing. Chris

Looking good, lot of work to get it this far. Keep on trucking.

Thanks Nick, I don't speek French (German yes) so it is a little hard to navigate the site,but I did add it to my list of sites I visit. Thanks for sharing. Chris

Nothing there my friend!!

Rob, You have your work cut out for you. At one of the reginal AMPS show I go to every year they have an award for the person that takes a old crappy kit and does a lot of work to improve it. This kit would definately fall in to that award.

Judging from the photo I can see that you are doing a little kit bashing? Yes/no? I will be following this build as you progress. I see a lot of molded on items, do you plan on using any aftermarket Items like PE, etc?

Welcome Bob, Your like most of us, took time off from building for family, career, military, etc and now back at it. Glad to have you back and on the forums. Chris :army7: