Flamethrower Up! **FINISHED**for real! pg8

HAHA ... NP. Anytime. I guess I wasn't as clear w/ my FT question though ... although yes, flaming the hole (hmmm.....) does sound like fun, I was more thinking about how you were thinking to do the little flame thats always lit at the end of the FT.

I think that someone once before posting something about using a small piece of shiny ribbon!?! Don't know ... that's just the first thing that popped to mind. ....

Lookin forward to it .....

Getting that pilot light done up would be pretty cool. I don't know if this is the same kit figure

http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/usa/m4a2tarawasz_1.html

But I'm not too sure if it would be visible inside that little nozzle. Unless it's actually outside of said nozzle

MC, At least I was thinking big!!! I invisioned a 30 foot ark of flame going into the bunker with a massive hellstorm at impact....I may be able to handle the primer flame!!

agentg, Thank you for the positive comments! As far as the utilities go, I am just going by the box art..which parallels my research...looks like, we mixed and matched camo with the green and some still had only the sage green herringbone twill (at least the grunts)...I will have to see which color pattern was used more...the brown makes more sense for sure. Thanks for the info sir

Glad you can use that- I think he has a build log somewhere on UKs Military Modeling website, but I don't remember how I stumbled across it...

If I recal he added a lot of scratch detail to the fig. alone!

Can't wait to see your highlighting!!

Looking great Stern0!

Really like that base work, and camo pattern on the marine.

looks good keep up the work

PS he does kinda look like a zombie

A10, thanks for the feedback....my wife pointed out that he looked like a zombie...I didn't say it to her but she may be right!!!

No prob Jim..it is 1/35..at least the figs..everything else is just eyeballed..might not be exactly to scale...hope you can get to bed earlier tonight..sleep well!

Here is the redone  camo...

Looking great- are the leaves... masking tape strips perhaps?? They look great, just wondering how you pulled it off. What's the item closest to the lense? Looks like some kind of sheet metal and appears to have a rising sun on it- part of a fuselage perhaps? Hard to tell from the angle

Comeing along real nice

Think I have a handle on the palm frons, these are cut from real leaves. If anyone can identify the leaf please let me know..I may do a toot if anyone is interested..

They look great!! And that plane section's pretty cool

I think you could write a tut on those leaves even if you cant ID the 1:1 leaf

Awesome work

Thanks Tom, The curl is actually part of the process, turns out I was going about it totally wrong..these were a little time consuming but very easy!...I'll get on that toot!

Chris, Many thanks! i'll get some better picks of that wreckage for ya...tried to find some pics of the ribs on a Zeke...no go,  but it needs a little more work on it. would love to see ya do a PTO dio...

Jim, Much appreciated...give me a day or so and I'll have that toot up,

Wow... This's really taking shape, man...  It's more than peaked my usual interest as well, since the Jarheads are so rarely modeled outside the occasional pilot or tank commander....  Keep waiting to see SGT Stryker pop up with a satchel charge... (Ya I know, I know..)

I really don't know much about Gyrene infantry stuff (other than describing them as robot-like creatures that willingly charge MGs with fixed bayonets.. I'm mostly a Western Europe GI kinda guy), but if it's passing muster with that Jughead on the Vegas PD, life's good...  The palm fronds are great.

Nice job, Steve .... I'm an outdoors-y guy, but I can't get a handle on the leave. (Size matters, ya know! hehe!!) Looks like something that outside on my bushes, but I can't be sure.

Palms are looking good. As far as the fuselage piece ... Not sure how I feel about it yet. It does add some interest though. Have you tried searching for "cut away" for that particular A/C? There are tons of cut-away drawings out there that should give you an idea of what you're looking for.

Thanks Col. Funny stuff! on dark modeling nights, I hear on the wind.. Stryyykerrrr! She is comming along though, glad I'm through the palm fron crisis...have a few things to work out, not to mention the figs..Thanks for checking in sir!

Scott, if it helps the leaves are on a single branch about 2 to 3 foot long with the leaves in tandem all the way down..a fairly large tree...branches hung low enough to reach from ground. I dunno! I wish I had never put that plane part in the pic...it wasnt finished and looks like hell. I origanally wanted it to be a wing peice with the meatball still mostly intact...I need some detail for the ribs and spars that are visible....I dont like the way the colors look with the rest of the dio so it is still in the air.....I do know it wont be where it is in the pic..many thanks!!!!!

I dont like the way the colors look with the rest of the dio so it is still in the air.....

Do I HAVE to say it?