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

camo junkie wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote:  Axel Smith wrote: AWESOME PINES! And here i am whining how hard and impossible they are! Especially how he made them pines look like palms, eh? i know what he meant hans...but in the back of my mind i was thinking the same thing (no offense axel)

Okay. Now i feel REALLY stupid! but thanks for catching me, and feel free to make fun of me... sorry guys.

Sorry Stern0

A week! jeez...mine started yesterday.....dam, got 10 emails thought I was finally popular!

BTW: anyone else getting email notifications in quad???

Yeah... what's up with that?

Thanks fellas!! The funny thing is when talking to my wife about this peice, I am constantly calling them pine frons..permanant brain cramp!

I will get that toot done very soon guys!!!!

BTW: anyone else getting email notifications in quad???

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Axel Smith wrote: AWESOME PINES! And here i am whining how hard and impossible they are! Especially how he made them pines look like palms, eh?

i know what he meant hans...but in the back of my mind i was thinking the same thing (no offense axel)

Axel Smith wrote:

AWESOME PINES! And here i am whining how hard and impossible they are!

Especially how he made them pines look like palms, eh?

camo junkie wrote:

yeah ditto...looks like it worked and looks very convincing!

Here is a pic of the frons on the trunks....I kinda like it.....(did I say that out loud!?) and the peice of mits. wreckage while i was at it...Again, not sure if it has its place yet.

LOL. 

Nice looking work, very convincing leaves. She's getting closer, I can taste it!  

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?

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!!!!!

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.

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.

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,