"Hollywood at War" Group Build

I swear I'm still in this!

Kid's are in school and though I got knocked out of entering to competitions for September and October, I aim to get my 'Bettie Lou" in for a late September show in Poughkeepsie. The theme - "Show Business". 

Han's, don't cook the cat, yet. From experience, I've learned to put all materials away after working on it -or at lease build in a cat free space.

NUTS!  No, I didn't decide to do a scene from "The Battle of the Bulge"... My Phalz D III has become a casualty of war with my new kitten... He decided that polystyrene in general and German aircraft in particular make fine chew-toys and has destroyed the upper wing beyond repair...  That said, I'm back at Square One here...

While I ponder over the whether the cat stays or becomes a fajita, I'll get back to y'all with another plan... P-A-L-N, PLAN!

lewbud wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote: Sure, jump in, Fallschirmjager.. (Get it? Jump? Fallschrimjager?) What, no rimshot?

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Sure, jump in, Fallschirmjager.. (Get it? Jump? Fallschrimjager?)

Sprengen!

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Sure, jump in, Fallschirmjager.. (Get it? Jump? Fallschrimjager?)

What, no rimshot?

Sure, jump in, Fallschirmjager.. (Get it? Jump? Fallschrimjager?)

Is it too late to star i may do something but i have to give it some thought

... the movie zulu comes to mind.

Not struggling, no... I've got the Phalz out of the box and some cockpit work down, and the Dr1 is about done 'cept decals and some touch-up painting.  The Stachel figure's going to take the longest I think, since the only figure I got to use is the 1/28th scale metrosexual pilot from Revell's Dr1 kit.. I've gone and chopped him up and put him back togethr s couple different times and still am not satisfied with the pose, so...

I may end up doing the whole figure from scratch, something I've never done and am NOT wanting to do...

Real life stinks, doesn't it?

I've done little more and I've yet to take pics what I do have. I want to get the tank itself to a show the end of this September to act as another motivator to get myself moving on it. I've got to stop vegging out at night and start on the bogies. I've got the DVD for 'Saraha' and I still trying to decide what scene to model. At the least, I'll need to get 3 US tanker figures.

Is anyone else out there struggling for this build?

666Irish wrote:

Is this group build still alive??? There just doesn't seem to be anyone really interested in it.   As for my SPR scene, I haven't gotten much done on it. Life has gotten in the way a bit. I am about 3 days from being a Daddy, so that kinda takes priority right now.

I may have screwed up by giving so much time, but again, since it's a diorama GB, it'll naturally be a lot slower, and with fewer participants.... I'm still working on mine, and it's not all that interesting yet, since I'm not doing anything outside building the actual models yet.. Once I have those complete and start on the shadow box, then I'll post WIP-pics.. It's forced-perspective, so it's largely useless to take pictures of the models themselves until I start to position them, plus they're not all that much to look at yet, since I'm only painting what will be seen from the viewing window, lol...

666Irish wrote:

Is this group build still alive??? There just doesn't seem to be anyone really interested in it.

I was just thinking about this build. I was just going over some reference images for my M3 and decided to look at what was going on here. 

While giving a far off end date gives people lots of time it also leads to procrastination (case in point -me!).

I'll have some images to post of my 'Lulubelle' by this Sunday night. Still need to find a 1/35 Bogey.

Huxy wrote:

3 days? That's plenty of time to model! Get to it!

I see your point. I put a phone on my workbench and I told her to give me a call when the baby arrived.

3 days? That's plenty of time to model! Get to it!

Really, Congratulations!

And for GB, I still have to find something usefull to do....

Is this group build still alive???

There just doesn't seem to be anyone really interested in it.

As for my SPR scene, I haven't gotten much done on it. Life has gotten in the way a bit. I am about 3 days from being a Daddy, so that kinda takes priority right now.

Irish, she is coming along quite nicely!

As for me, I have been nickle and diming one idea along, the one from Bridge Too Far... Lets just say this one will take far longer than the deadline for the group build here. But now that I have begun, I will CM on it until completed...

But for the actual GB here, I am gonna go with a Longest Day scene.

A couple of quick shots of what I have had to do lately, as mentioned above...

That, and I don't think it would go over well at a show. People get a little testy when their show models get melted.

As for my entry, it's a combination of not having mych time to work on it, and the fact that it is currently going through major surgery. Looking at the hull sitting on the chassis, I realized that not only is the hull too short, but the roadwheels where set in too far. Off comes the suspension, lower hull is currently getting boxed to widen it, then I get into lengthening the upper hull. 

This one is getting more and more difficult by the day! I'll have some pictures soon.

So I guess that using real smoke, and real fire is out of the question, then?

Dayum, Irish... Lookin' good...

Not much to report on my end... I'm not happy with the Phalz since I tried a hand-painted lozenge camo (Stachel's Phalz was completely covered in the Lozenge Pattern)... I did it on the underside though, so I won't have to remove it (Stachel's crash-landing ripped the gear off the Phalz)...

Th' Baron's tripe is about done tho.. Just not that much to see in 1/72 scale, especially with such a small plane as the DR 1 was... I'm thinking about motorizing the DR1 though, have a rod run through the engine front, that will allow me add the "wing-waggle" salute to Stachel from MvR.. BUT.. I run into the conflict of moving models pared with everythig else being stationary... UNLESS, I think of a way to animate the smoke & flame from Stachel's Phalz...  Kinda like the old Hamm's Beer signs with the smoke from the campfire...

Nice job 666Irish cool base!

Bumpety bump!

This poor group build was languishing back on page three...we can't have that!

Not much advancement to report. Haven't had the time I would like to work on it lately. All I have really done is to build up the base to put my rubble and debris on a little.

This has been accomplished with a mixture of water, woodland scenics scenic glue, and seveal colors of Woodland Scenics Ballast. Also added to the mix has been soil that was sent to me by a friend who lives in the Normandy region of France. I just thought that it would be a cool addition.

I am considering entering this into the AMPS 2009 show, since it is in my State this year. I don't know, though. I have never entered a competition before. I'll most likely chicken out.

Made some progress on the diorama base yesterday. It just served to show mw how much more work I actually need to do to get it to resemble anything from the film! So I am still calling this the 'beginning stages'.

 The buildings copper drain pipe. Poly scale copper, testors flat green, and testors interior green, with a  poly scale grimy black wash. Woodland scenics Turf for moss.

The slow buildup of small rubble and mud at the base of the building. This will be mostly covered with larger debris and wood.

A slightly out of focus shot from above.

Tips, comments and criticism are always welcome!