Okay, I've _FINALLY_ gotten around to not only taking photos of the kits I've finished and brought to work, but also putting them on the web! Here's a few of my more recent ones that I haven't posted to the group. I still have the WIP of the diorama on an SD card at home, so those won't go up for a while.
Here's the Pegasus M-26:
Next here's the Airfix Churchill AVBL:
Next is the Revell/Matchbox Churchill AVRE/Bridge Layer
Revell/Matchbox Humber and Hasegawa Daimler:
If you look closely you can see that the vehicle commander is a ginger with hairy arms...
Now the Yak-18 and teh Yak-9P:
The Amodel Yak-18 isn't too horrible, It went together kinda quick and wasn't too badly out of line. I did have to do some filling and sanding, not as much as usual with Amodel subjects, though. It has dropped aeilerons from the factory. Unless you want to cut and reposition them, you're going to be building it gear down. And they are typically like that when it's on the ground. At least the vehicle in the Korean War Memorial Museum is the same way.
The ICM Yak-9P is a nice little unit, but you have to cut out the fuselage to make the window for the RF aerial. A pain in the keester, unless you just want to paint that area silver or something. Otherwise, not too bad.
Next up is the Monogram/Revell AG F-82G Twin Mustang:
I know, the F-82 is already up, and that's cool, I'm building the majority of these kits for me and my students.
Here's something you don't see too often, the 1/72 SHQ metal 105mm Airborne Howitzer and gun crew. I figured that it and the 76mm were probably dropped in the two airborne drops so I purchased and included them. I've already put up the 76mm. Here's the 105mm.
Now comes my baby... The Field Aid Station Diorama. I'm very happy with how it turned out. I used drywall joint compound for the base on a picture frame. Then it was spray painted and then some brush paint was used. The materials on the road (rocks/sand/brush) are all natural materials from outside my apartment, and the 'rice stalks' are from a grass that's outside my apartment. It's supposed to represent a rainy day at a surgical aid station near the front. A sign along the road says that the Main Line of Resistance is 2000 yards away. I made up a unit number (712th) and put it under the 2nd ID. The two ambulances were already built earlier, as was one of the stretcher units. The rest of the figures came mostly from SHQ (metal), the house from Airfix, one stretcher case was with the house and so was the radio and operator. The tarps are kleenex that are spray painted OD green, the water tank is a resin kit from England (can't remember manufacturer). The rest of the gear and equipment came from all over.
So, anyway... That's what I've been doing since the B-29 was finished. I don't know what I'm going to start on next. Maybe the C-47 or the C-119. I'd like to have some airborne troops inside the Dakota ready jump, and maybe a vehicle ready to be pushed out the back of the Boxcar. We'll see what happens.
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Andy Hill (the_draken) landrew.hill(at)live.com <*> ASE Master Auto Tech, Imaca certified. >^.^<
PADI OWSI Certified, BA Poli Sci (NDSU), BS Secondary ED-Social Studies MSUM (Sigma *** Laude)