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Thanks, everyone.

These have gone to their new home today to the pleasure of the new owner. :gold-plane:

Her e are two recent commission projects: Revell’s 1/144 C-17 and Italerie’s 1/48 AC-130U. The gunship has a custom made decal for the nose art. The design was requested by my customer. He will be showing this gear up and in flight, so I made acetate “spinning” props.

Here are a bunch of photos from the 2014 Long Island Figure Show.

Thanks,Rob.

I'm currently working on a review of the Bronco Buffalo with slat armor for IPMS/USA. (Yes, I'm making progress on this.) My question concerns part G36. This a bottle shaped device behind what appears to be an air conditioning unit (parts B16 & 17 and four F19's) located behind the last seat on the driver's side. It looks like a fire extinguisher or an O2 tank. My questions: What is it? What color should it be? Thanks in advance.

Mike Blank’s Best of Show –Historical Entry, Wings of Darkness. For many more images of the entries at this year;s MFCA, please click here: MFCA 2014

Thanks, Edward. I bought this from Chuck at The Red Lancer at either the Long Island Show or MFCA, The website is http://www.redlancers.com/ When I've ordered from them online, the order has gotten to me in a few days to a week, from PA to MA.

Here is the United Empires Miniatures 1/10 bust of the Seneca war chief Kaintwakon ( Cornplanter or By What One Plants) and by his given name John Abeel, Jr., as sculpted by Carl Reid. Kaintwkon was the son of a white father and a Seneca woman, and given the matriarchal lineage of the Senecas, was considered a member of the tribe. He lived from about 1750 to 1836 He fought with the British in both the French and Indian (Seven Years) War and in the American Revolution. In later life he maintained contact with the Quakers but became disillusioned with the treatment of his people by the Americans. The bust is based on a painting done in 1796 by Frederic Bartoli. Various reprinting show different shades to the clothing and feathers. The bust, seen at the link below is painted in Vallejo and other acrylics with ModelMaster Aluminum Buffing Metalizer in the silver jewelry and presented on a base from Birch Tree Enterprises of Long Island. Kaintwakon

Photos from & Wheels Modelers' Valleycon 24. This is not an inclussive set of photos but captures about 2/3 of the entries.

Thanks guys. Edward, Parts list: Powder horn, haversack. right arm, blanket roll. musket/left hand, roach/feathers, beaded plume, left arm, head/torso, two musket strap parts. two earrings. hatchet handle One of the straps may have been missing or lost and I replaced it with lead foil. There was length of fine solder for the powder horn holder. I uses elastic thread instead and used a bit of the solder for the cap holder. There were minor gaps at the arm/shoulder connections that were easy to fill and a small mold line on the shoulders. The lower part of the blanket has strapping molded in place, but it didn't seem to connect to anything so I corrected this with a bit of foil. I thinned the earrings and added them with some of the solder. The hatchet handle was too long for my base so I cut that to size.

Here is Stormtroopers Miniature’ 1/9 bust of an Iroquois as sculpted by Carl Reid. The warrior is depicted shortly after the defeat of General Braddock on the Monongahela in his expedition to capture Fort Duquesne, now known as Pittsburgh in 1755. The general was mortally wounded and his column took heavy casualties. The raiders, from a variety of tribes allied to the French, looted the abandoned supply train and casualties. Many took the coats as prizes and wore them proudly. In this case, the figure’s coat shows the colors of the 44th Regiment of Foot. He is painted primarily in Vallejo acrylics. The gorget was first covered in Bare Metal Foil then toned down with various washes. The base is cherry wood from Birch Tree Enterprises of Long Island.

We are now just three weeks out from Valleycon 24 to be held 30 March at the Knights of Columbus Hall 460 Granby Road in Chicopee MA. Registration runs 9:00 am to noon with judging shortly after .that. Judging for automotive and aircraft will be standard IPMS 1-2-3 while all other categories will use the Open System. Our vendor area is filled with 69 tables, and the stock for the raffle is building up. Among the items which will be in the raffle are: 1/24 Revell Germany Ultimate Ferrari Set (3 kits in one box) 1/25 Polar Lights The Batmobile (2 snap tite kits in one box 1/32 Hobbycraft Models Wildcat F4F-4 1/32 Pegasus Aerial HK Machine –From Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1/35 P Panda Hobby Soviet Heavy Tank Object 279 1/1:350 Trumpeter USS Fort Worth LCS-3 1/1:48 Academy B-25G 'Shark Mouth 1/48 Kitty Hawk F-35A Lightning II Iwata NEO Gravity-Feed Dual-Action Airbrush 4 sets of 1 each 1/144 Dragon 54cm and 60 cm SP mortars 2 sets each of 4 1/144 Dragon Panzer Corps rail cars Our commercial vendors include Amato’s, Birch Tree Enterprises, Craftec Hobbies, Farina Enterprises, Hobby Bunker, Rare Plane Detectives, Red Frog Hobbies, Red Line Hobbies, Sentinel Miniatures, Time Machine Hobbies and Tom's Trains. To encourage the use of our forms available at our website we are offering 5 free raffle tickets to entrants who download and pre print their forms. The contest will feature a new Lego class to for our younger entrants and a wargaming class in the figure division. Both individual figures and groupings will be judged in this class using the open (gold-silver-bronze) system. To recognize the 50th anniversary of America’s quintessential pony car, the Mustang, we will have a special Mustang Corral. Entrants may present any model of any mustang in any scale style or, markings either for simple display or to be judged. Hog Heaven Hobbies of Sturbridge MA will present a $25 gift certificate for the best A-10. There will be on site food and drink and plenty of free parking. Hope to see many of you there.

Thanks. My original post gives a list of sources for everything. It started life as this kit:

Very nicely done.

Two recent items I completed from the HBO series Game of Thrones. The first is the70mm kit “Snow Knight” from the short l9ived Toisson Studio. It is obviously Jon Snow and his direwolf, Ghost The wolf and cape are resin and the rest is white metal. I was initially going to paint him in shades of brown, but in reading the books, he joined the Night’s Watch, who only wear black, very early on so it was back to the drawing board, more precisely, the paint tray. In any case, they are painted in acrylics, primarily Vallejo. The snow is a product from an source lost to the ages, just a small zip lock bag in my scenery drawers applied with AK Interactive Pigment Sealer. Thanks to Dan Capuano for that method. The base is from Birch Tree Enterprises, aka, John Jeffries. I had him make it for me for a different figure but that wasn’t going to work. I played with the idea of the rough side to the front with the figures facing down the slope then decided to take a different route, allowing for the title. “Winter is Coming,” which is the motto of Jon Snow’s father’s house Stark. For those unfamiliar with the story, the character is an illegitimate son and cannot carry his father’s name and is given the surname Snow. Next is a bust of Tyrion Lannister, aka The Imp, from Castle Miniatures. The kit is finely cast in three pieces of resin: cloak, shoulder armor and everything else. He is painted in acrylics except for the black on the shadow cat cloak which is Model master enamel and the dark metal of the armor which is Buffing Gun Metal from the Model Master Metalizer line applied with an airbrush and buffed out with Q-Tips. His hair is painted in light blond as described in the books and his eyes are mismatched green and very dark brown, described as black in the books. Again, the base is from Birch Tree Enterprises. I found the Lannister banner on line.

Accidental double post.

In just about two months, Valleycon 24 will take place at the Knights of Columbus on Granby Road in Chicopee MA. Today, we sold out our vendor room with 48 individual vendors who will display on 68 tables. There are Among the vendors are Rare Planes Detective, Sentinel Miniatures, Birch Tree Enterprises, Red Frog Hobbies, Craftec (Windsor CT), Time Machine (Mancheter CT) Amatos (New Britain CT) farina Enterprises, Tom's Trains of CT, and the Hobby Bunker (Malden MA) as well as numerous private dealers and the club table. Our raffle will have a brand new Iwata Neo airbrush. The contest will feature a War Game Figure/display categor for the first time as well as a Lego class for youngsters.

Keeping it fresh...I wasn't under a strict timeline so I worked at a more leisurely pace. I'd send him in progress shots as I went along. I don't often do aircraft so I had to dig back into my skills for some of the techniques and plan tings out. I also tried a new antenna method using stretchy necklace material from Michael's. I drilled holes where they'd be attached and glued them first to the radio compartment. Them I inserted the other end, wing or tail, and pulled it tighter than it needed it to be and put a drop of Zap-A-Gap with accelerator and let it go...nice and tight with flexibility. I had to rethink attacment to the base for so may items and used stainless steel wire to hold all the wheeled items and the scaffold down. So, some "freshness" came from being out of my normal comfort zone. I scratched the requested scaffold and did some detail work on the cart with spare PE. The Jeep driver's upper half is Verlinden and bottom half is Hasegawa. The owner thought about getting PE details, including interior detail sets. I convinced him it would be a waste of time and money since the dio will be in a plexiglas case as well as closed up and never be seen by anyone but me and him (in the pictures I was sending him.) . Other than that, stuff is pretty much OOB.

Thanks again for the kind words. The tarmac was printed from this poster at Armorama. I printed several pages, cut them to size and attached them with Elmer's Wood Glue.

"Shep Paine-ish"? Hokey Smokes, GIl, what a complement!

I just finished this 1/48 diorama as a commission using the Revellogram B-17G, Tamiya Ford staff car, Hasegawa , Accurate Miniatures cart and Verlinden and kit figures. Video

400 plus images from the Long Island Show held on 16 November 2013 can be seen at I put these up on Picasa

Thanks, guys. Dannie, you might consider scanning the articles you want to keep. A thumb drive with decent memory will hold them all until you need them.

Here is Author Sculpt’s 200mm US Indian Scout bust. The figure is cast in white metal with braided wire for the braid from the helmet to the collar. The kit comes also comes with a sheet of foil for the chin strap to which I added two Historex buckles. He is wearing a full dress pattern 1880 uniform with braid particular to the Indian scouts, with one white and one scarlet thread.