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Sorry guys for the very small picture. Here are some better shots. Enjoy,

James, This is a really beatifully painted model. I can tell that you are a figure model. I consider figure modelers some of the best around as far as painting goes. Other then the few minor things already pointed out, I think that you just became a figure/armour modeler. Well done! Chris

Welcome Jorge, It's a long swim across the pond! Watch out for the !/300 scale german u-boats roaming the waters if you do try. HA HA HA :lol:

Welcome aboard Gene.

Beautiful model, she should do well at the nat's. Best of luck.

I showed this forum to my daughter. She was all smiles and said she loved seeing another girl do models. She is building her first car model/ first model ever right now. Thanks for sharing this. Great model and cute as can be little girl.

Mike, Tell your son great job. My 9yr old daughter is now building her first model, a car. When complete I will post it on the forum. Girl Power!!! Watch out boys the future of the hobby is coming and girls will be a big part of it. Chris

Mark, Great looking model. Wouldn't it be cool if some country still had airships and you could buy a ticket and ride in one on a trip. That to me would be cool. Good luck at the Nat's and have a blast. Chris

Ying/Duke, Thanks!! Duke, I did the basic weathering, i.e. rust, rain stains, grease stains, etc. I tried to place the tank in a setting as dipicted on the box art. Box art did not show much of any mud/dirt build up. Chris

Welcome aboard!

Hi Guys, I too enjoy hearing and reading about other services and there operations. BoB, I was on the USS INdependence CV-62 at the time of this story. Bruce/Mark, After I my active duty time in the Navy I changed over to the Naval reserve (active) and changed rates to a Gunner's Mate. I spent a two week tour on Guam at the Naval Magazine. In my off time I rented a car and toured the Island. Guam is a really cool place for history. There are pieces of the WAR (WWII) everywhere. In the jungle at the southern end of the Island is a JAP Zero that was shot down. Just a little hike in and there she is. On the Naval Magazine itself, 25 years after the war ended they found a Japanese that had been hiding in one of the caves and still fighting the war. They sealed up the cave and he went back to Japan as a hero. Anderson AFB was a cool place. One other tid bit, in the middle of the harbour are too sunking ships lying on top of each other. If I remember right they were both German (or at least one of they) fighting ships. One was sunk during WWI and ythe other in WWII on the same spot. This is a populer drive spot today. Well I have talked too long. Enjoy and Thanks. Chris

Hi everybody, This is the Emhr kit of the Tadeploe in 1/35 scale. The base was later given a finished edge. Enjoy, Chris

Here is my Tamyia German Jadgertiger 1/35 scale. Enjoy, Chris

Hi Guys, This was a very interesting reading this forum topic. I see that you are all Air force vets and talking about alerts. So this brought back memories of my time in the Navy. I served as a catapult crew chief (topside Petty Officer) back in the 80's on carriers. As everyone can recall the cold war was still going on an every time we were out cruising in or near a non-friendly country or hot spot we had an Alert ready fighter or two on deck ready to go. During fight op's there was always a CAP (combat air patrol) plane's in the air. They were usuallly the third planes (E-2 Hawkeye was second and the helo's for plane guard always first) that we shot off in the launch cycle. There was always a Alert plane or two on deck as a back up. This plane would be on either Alert 30, 60, (number ment that was the time frame that that bird had to be airborne in)ect.. During non-fight time there was always a Alert bird ready and a catapult ready and on alert. The highest alert being Alert 5. This ment that the bird (F-14 Tomcat) would be sitting on the catapult armed to the teeth. The pilot would be geared up sitting in the cockpit. Plane checkers (squadron personel) around the aircraft ready to do final plane checks. And of couse us catapult crew guy geared up and manning the cat, topside and below. A typical catapult crew had five guys at stations below decks and eight guys on stations topside. I was the top enlisted crew member in charge of the crew topside. When the bird was on the cat and in the ready postion and tension was taken I did my final checks and gave the Handler (yellow shirt plan director) the go signal. He then turned the plane over to the cat officer, who gave the final signal to launch. So one day while crusing off the Cuben coast in the 80's we were getting ready to start fight ops for the afternoun/night cycle. I was manning Catapult number 3 on the waist cats (Bow cat are number 1 & 2, waist (side/midship) cats are number 3 & 4) with the Alert 5, F-14. The fight deck was doing a FOD walkdown ( were every person, officers and enlisted walks the fight deck from Bow to stern looking for anything that can damage a jet engine. This took place before every launch cycle). About half way through the FOD walkdown the fight deck 5mc (fightdeck speakers) comes to life, 'launch the Alert 5, this is no drill, launch the Alert 5 this is no drill". Well in exactly 4min. 41sec. the plane was in the air and the alert 20 was getting ready to taxi up for it's cat shot next. Turns out that the Cubens sent out a couple of fully armed planes to test our response time. This happened from time to time during the cold war. Just one of the many games that was played during that fun war. I hope that this gives people a different look at how other services did operations. I know that this has noing to do with the forum topic, but if any of you plane guys wanted to know a little about how the Navy operates, well there it is. Enjoy, Chris Graeter

Duke, You are a modeling machine. They look great. I could never work in 1/72 or 1/76 scale, big hands for one and my eye sight is not the 20/20 it used to be. Again great job. Chris

Hi all this is a link to Bob Letterman's modeling site. Master of the large scale Diarama. He has been in a zillion model magazines over the years. Shep Paine put several of his works in his book, "How to build Diarama's". Check it out. It is amazing. He is one of the master's in our craft. Leave a comment as to what you think of his diarama's, model's, or anything that you want to share. ENJOY!!!! http://www.bobletterman.com/

I agree.

Mark, Check out MISSING LINK, I believe Cookie S. did a review of the Ontos.

Hobby shops should have it by now or soon. I checked with my hobby shop guy. he says that late july is the release date. Look for anytime now.

Here is the german 251 towing a pak75 in DAK marking. painted in Tamiya paints, weathered with pastel chauks and a dark wash. Added camo netting around gun barrel,scratch bulit tarp and barbed wire, added stowage inside.

This is the old Tamyia Panzer II kit I got off of Ebay. Bulit OOB. Painted with Tamiya paints, used the salt method on this to achieve the chip paint look. Added stowage. Made the air recon flag from scratch. Weathered with pastel chauk and Mig pigments. Small chain and bucket added to the front also.

This is the DML kit 1/35 BMP-1. Built OOB. Painted with Tamiya paints. Weathered with Mig pigments and a light dark brown wash.

Here is the Tamyia Steyr 1/35 I built four years ago. Other then adding a strap to the water can it is OOB. Airbrushed with Tamiya paints and weathered with pastel chauk.

Thanks Guys. The base coat is Tamiya German grey with camo striping of Tamiya Dark Green. Weathered with pastel chalks and light wash of black. FYI - the camo net is a cheese cloth painted and while still wet I srinkled parcely flakes on it. Then rolled it up. Looks just like dried leafs.

Here is a photo of a Tamyia Waspe1/35 that I built about three years ago. I hope this link works. I am new to posting photos on here so this is a testy run. If you do get to see it, I have added grab handles made from brass, stowage, and a camo net. The head phone were scrach built also. Enjoy!