Dakimbrell

This is Keyser Söze stuff. Dak

Found these two figures by Nuts Planet and finally figured out where to use them. A back alley in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The wall was made with AK interactive carving foam, the debris came from a variety of sources. The car is from Takom. Graffiti is also from AK. The door is too big. Somewhere along the line, I got careless and switched the Murphy's rule around and accidently used the 1/32nd side when measuring. Well, Duh! Dak

While I started using digital cameras 20 years ago, at the 2022 National, I took all my picture...some 800... with my iPhone. All my Journal articles are done with the iPhone. Dak

It has always annoyed me we can't show this sort of thing at a National contest. Talk about white washing history, it's okay to have the SS killing Russians, but show Auschwitz inmates and somehow that is a threat to the sensitivities of others and their children. Dak

Found this vignette in the November 2022 issue of Military Illustrated Modeller. I glad to see someone--Daniel Buchmeier did something besides more SS figures. The SS were the bad guys, and it is time people remembered their crimes. Dak

You thought this was going to be a Star trek scene, but it is a pair of Nazi SD guys raiding resistance members putting up posters. The Figures are from D-day, the car Tamiya and the kiosk from Custom Dioramics. The pigeons are Miniart along with the streetlamp and bench. The pavers and sidewalk are all done with grout. The Paris uprising began on August 18th. Dak

Yes, I already caught that after it was done. But You can't judge the coffee cup in straight up automotive, only in dioramas.😁 Actually, the cup logo came from a sheet of NYC logos. I have no idea what it is, but it looks good. Dak

DEF out of Korea makes the figure. She comes in 4 different scales. You can get them from Sprue Bros. Dak

This is an old Verlinden figure and a full body bag from a bootleg maker. The 101st patch came from an old IPMS contest sheet, back in 1982, I think. Painted with enamels. An old friend and former IPMS member, Jerry Taylor, was a medic with the 101st in Vietnam. He was the inspiration for this vignette. Dak

Thanks Mark. Somewhere down the line there will be a Journal article on the vignette. Dak

The DML late Elefant with Stalingrad figures. Berlin, 1945. The zimmerit is from Cavalier. Bricks are homemade with tile grout in J'sWork molds. Dak

This is the Fujimi 1/24th kit. I had started it back in 1986 and only got as far as starting to paint the body. I found it in the garage stash last month and decided to finish it. Added some Porsche manuals to the interior along with keys in the ignition and an air freshener. The figure is from DEF. The kit does not live up to how good it looks in the box Dak

The model looks better than it is. I had a number of problems which don't show up in the pictures. Dak

This is the special edition of the 1/35th Gecko kit with the SKP figure of princess Elisabeth of York. Dak

A couple pictures I took in June 1975 from my ship. West side of the Suez. Dak

Refueling from the USS Joseph Hewes. Dak

Some years back, I had the chance to look a a genuine nascar racer close enough to touch, which I did. At that time, all the stickers were just that, stickers. You could feel they. Not smooth at all. I know now things are different with wraps and such. I remember one race I glimpsed part of and there was a bumper sticker flapping like a flag. Dak

I like the weathered look. Gives it more life and less of a toy look. Dak

But then Picasso and Rembrandt aren’t being taken out in the rain. 😉 Dak

Saw this at my dealership and noted all the dirt, grime, and wear.even a hand written number on the tire Dak

Just finished the Tamiya kit and made some bad mistakes and had a fit problem. Generally, it was a nice kit. The girl is the Mindy kit from Master Box with earrings and a new hairdo. Trust me, the pictures look a lot better than the model. Note the handicap placard. (Yes, the space is marked.) Dak

The Dragon SdKfz138/1 M in 1/35th with an Alpine figure. Mixed feelings on the kit. Some parts are excellent and others, ehh. Anyway, it depicts one of six vehicles with Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Battle of the Bulge. Three pictures are the Munitions Panzer variant at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Dak

I thought these were cast Iron? Dak

All that works if you have the right kind of dirt. Oklahoma has a heavy clay content that doesn’t take water well. That’s why I went to tile grout. Lots of colors, mixes well, and doesn’t shrink. Dak