you're killin' me Smalls

I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.

Big Joe: Who's in command?

Kelly: A guy named Oddball.

Big Joe: Oddball! He's a freak!

Kelly: He's got three Shermans all ready to go.

Big Joe: What kind of a guarantee is that? "He's ready to go." He's a nut!

Pvt. Jonesey: Well we're all nuts, or we wouldn't be here!

A Sherman can give you a very nice... edge.

Crap Game: Make him a deal.

Big Joe : What kind of deal?

Crap Game: A DEAL deal... Business is business, maybe he's a Republican...

But you are, ze American Army...

German tank commander: I have orders. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American army.

Kelly: Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands. You see, we're just a private enterprise operation.

German tank commander: You... the American army!

Oddball: No, baby, we ain't.

Lol, I've seen the conversion kit and figures for Oddball's Sherman but I wonder has anyone ever done a diorama of them pulling the gold bullion out of the bank and loading it up on anything that will move? That would be a lot of work but pretty darn cool!

Best WW2 movie related model I'd seen in a while was someone painted (pink that is!) a Gato class US submarine up like the one in (don't remember her name) from 'Operation Pettycoat'.

USS SEADRAGON

Ah, yes, that's it!

Thanks Waynec

The sub in the movie was called the USS SEATIGER

right you are. where the hell did i get seadragon.? breen reading too much on PLAN and 1/350  pe is destroying my eyesight i guess.

Well it was something like that!

I remember the boat was pink!

waynec

right you are. where the hell did i get seadragon?

Some of the plot points of the movie were based on real-life incidents, such as:

• the sinking of the submarine USS Sealion at the pier at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines
• Commander Sherman's letter to the supply department on the inexplicable lack of toilet paper (based on an actual letter to the supply department of Mare Island Naval Shipyard by Lieutenant Commander James Wiggin Coe of the submarine USS Skipjack),
• the need to paint a submarine pink due to the lack of enough red or white lead undercoat paint. The heat from the burning Sealion also scorched off the black paint of the nearby USS Seadragon and for a time this boat fought with only her red lead undercoat visible. This led Tokyo Rose to disparage American "red pirate submarines."
• the torpedoing of a bus by the U.S.S. Bowfin

I understand Seaman Hornsby has been promoted (posthumously) to Petty Officer

Wow.  And you guys get mad at me for going off topic? 

Hey guys most of the AM resin, PE and decals have now arrived for my Spitfire so I'll be able to post a "box contents" shot tonight, YAY.

The only things outstanding are a few additional pieces from Ultracast which should be hear here in a week or so, but won't stop me from starting.

Cheers

***EDIT*** I'm an idiot who can't spell

Good news Darren. Look forward to the pics.

I'm trying to post pics from Photo Bucket. If this works I'll be good to go.

IT WORKED.......

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Finished with the ribbing. The wire and pulley system is started and some detail work completed but I'm waiting on PE before I go any further. I think I'll leave the door in the down position and also go with US Navy grey. I believe waynec said he was painting his LCVP the tri-color British version so we'll have both versions.  

Not sure what happened on the second attempt, but its looking good so far.

i am and you are already farther along than i am. probably won't do any pe on this one. no reason you can't do a tri-color also if you eant too. i'm just really getting into silly putty and different colors.

Bish I'm sorry for not knowing this stuff, but when you click on the tab I just sent do you get the entire folder, if so there are additional photos of this build and a Nashorn and Tiger.  

When I click on that link, I just see the one photo. How are you inserting the links.

When I click on the photo, I'm hitting the wheel that pops up, then to Get Links, then click on Direct. I hit on that and I get "copied".

Wen I post on the Forum, I used rich formatting.

????

Sorry Bish, I'm using a Mac.

Darren: Looks cool!

Jibber: I can see your photos fine by clicking the link. Not sure why it's not posting, did you use the 'Insert Image' function on the website? You could just copy and paste on the old website but it doesn't work anymore.

Not much work on the Churchill I'm afraid. It's so humid and muggy here the paint takes forever to dry when airbrushing.  Had to sand out a few runs on some other projects! 

I'll work on it.

Anyway ready to assemble, the cables were easy and the fit not so bad(so far).

In the photo link, I show a Nashorn and Tiger that I was going to post to the Armor Forum, please feel free to comment.  

Cliff: Same here in Austria. Everything takes about 3 times as long to dry...

Clemons: Yech,  I was hoping only us on the US/Canada east coast were having this weather. It's starting to dry out some now though.

Jibber: She looks good so far, the cables are nice detailing. The Tiger and Nashorn look good too, but it's kinda hard to tell without more close-up photos.