Shep Paine Fans, Check it Out.

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Stumbled across this site a few minutes ago while I was looking for Shep's TBD photos... These are a collection of his Monogram dio tip sheets from the 70s, the ones that got many of us into dioramas in the first place... Well, Me at least, lol... http://studiummag.com/interviews/painefotos.html They're in a pdf format, BTW...

it seemed like eack set of pics just got better and better, but in the end it was the P61 hands down! Anybody know whatever happened to Shepard Paine?

gary

Thank you, Hans. Shepard Paine diorama sheets were the reason I preferred Monogram growing up. He is hands down the the single most influential figure in the modeling universe. His scratch building stands toe to toe with anything I've seen by today's builders armed with considerably more products at their disposal.
It would be nice if a manufacturer or two would bring back the practice of including these types of instruction sheets.


Something that might be of interest to you Hans, Revell is bringing back the Monogram "Hedge Hog" Sherman. I pre ordered one from Mega Hobby, $24.00.

Awesome find! Before my time- but his book got me into dioramas and I've heard you and some of the other big names on FSM talk about these- glad to finally see them

squeakie wrote:

...Anybody know whatever happened to Shepard Paine?

Yes, Shep is still active in the club in Illinois that runs the Chicago military miniatures show, and in the MFCA (he was our first grand master).  He's a real gent!

And many thanks, Hammer, for the link!  I've been tracking down the brochures, I think I lost all my copies when I went into modeling hiatus at the end of high school.  Only a couple of them are posted up at his site, and they're few and far between on eBay.

I really should check out the rest of my parents' attic, they're probably up there somewhere...

It would be nice if a manufacturer or two would bring back the practice of including these types of instruction sheets.

I think you may be getting your wish if Revell follows suit with their re-releases... The B-17 re-release came with Shep's dio sheet of "In the Pink"...

Glad I could help, y'all...

The first Monogram kit I ever got that had the dio tip sheet was the P-61, about 1974 or so...  The second was the M-48 Patton.. From that point on it was a no-brainer that  was gonna be a diorama-builder... 

Something that might be of interest to you Hans, Revell is bringing back the Monogram "Hedge Hog" Sherman. I pre ordered one from Mega Hobby, $24.00.

Ya, gonna be doin' a few nostalgia builds m'self, lol...

Bookmarked.  Thanks HvH.  These bring back some memories.  The B-24 dio article was a huge influence on me in my modelling youth.

Think I need some more printer ink, lol...

Happy to say I have most of these. Looks like they don't have the Do-335 dio and wasn't there one in the 72nd F-15?

Shep has a new book coming out that I will have to get my hands on:
http://sheperdpaine.com/books/index.htm

I don't remember any 1/72 ones... I think the Eagle kit was the one in Air Superiority Blue? Back in the 70's... If that's the one, their wasn't any dio sheet in the kit I had.. (It was a gift, I don't do 1/72 except for forced perspective work, OR jets that weren't flying in 1944-53, lol..)

I remember that 335 dio, the wrecked hangar was a real piece of work..

philp wrote:

Happy to say I have most of these. Looks like they don't have the Do-335 dio and wasn't there one in the 72nd F-15? Shep has a new book coming out that I will have to get my hands on: http://sheperdpaine.com/books/index.htm

Does the book have all of these dios in it???  I read an article a few years back that tried to track down all of those dios...sadly, many had been stuck in closets and fell in disrepair, and a few vandalized/scavenged at the Monogram offices...some even flat-out disapeared...

philp wrote:

...Shep has a new book coming out that I will have to get my hands on: http://sheperdpaine.com/books/index.htm

To clarify, that's the extended interview book by Jim DeRogatis, not a book authored by Shep himself.  But that's not to say it's not good.  It came out around Christmas, I think, or a little earlier, and it's fantastic.  A must for all Shep fans.  Think of his tips books, but with more subjects, more photos, and a running interview with Shep.

Regards,

Brad

I know for a fact that Shep's TBD diorama was on display at King's Hobby Shop in Austin, TX in 1987... That's the last time I saw it..

Thank you for the link, and more importantly thank you for the trip down memory lane!

Shepard Paine was my hero throughout the 70's and remains so to this day.  Back in the day, your were pretty much either a Paine guy or a Verlinden guy .... Shep Paine made me "think" about my presentations and for that I am thankful.  He did two books with Kalmbach Publishing, Military Models and Dioramas, I have them both and they are still relevant today.  Here's his homepage for those interested - http://sheperdpaine.com/ 

*** Only Shep Paine could make that Monogram stuff look "Modelable".