It was a great, great evening. We had a lot of members there and we all had a real good time. Wish everyone lived close enough to join us. Well, that's all for this UPDATE, until next time, have a good one!
Hey Campers, had our monthly meeting last night and I thought I would deliver a report and post a few pictures from the meet. Sorry there was no update on Tuesday night, I had some technical difficulties that I still haven't figured out, but hopefully everything will be back to normal tonight. Without further delay...LAST NIGHT'S MEETING... Dr. Zorkon sort of stole the show last night with this huge diorama that I am calling Zorkon's Gym. A combination of bashed items and some limited run Internet finds, this Gym has got everything you need for your 1/6th body builders. MADDOG CPL had a line of Waffen SS Soldiers on hand and they sure looked good. I love those camo smocks. No doubt about it, SS guys definitely had the best uniforms. This is one smart looking unit. Right next door to MADDOG's Supermen was Trooper Paul's tribute to U.S. Presidents, which I am calling Hall of Presidents for lack of a better name, though Turnstile of Presidents might be a better description. According to Paul, this is still sort of a work in progress, but when it's done it should be pretty cool. He doesn't have all the US Presidents, but he has pretty much all the ones that have been made so far. The whole thing turns so that you can view each president up close and personal (don't get too close to Bill there, if you know what I mean). The evening seemed to be mostly about buying, selling and trading, there was a lot of stuff there to dig through... Getting back to figures, Trooper Tim did these Hasbro Star Wars figures and sort of customized them to create some unique expanded universe type figures. I like the weathering on that stormtrooper. He also did this really unique futuristic looking warrior. I like the hand painted camo that he did on the various armor pieces and helmet, that must have taken a considerable amount of time. Nice Job! Panzercommander and I tried to get in a little shoot featuring his Italians and my British Marmon Herrington armored car in a desert scene. Above is what it looked like under the lights. Below is the finished scene. You will be seeing more of this shoot on Sunday night when I show a few more shots from the shoot as a way of introducing our newest set of Printables, The Italian Collection. Our selection of printables continue to grow. Featured at left are three sets that I displayed last night; The Indiana Jones Collection, The German Collection and part of the new Italian Collection.
It was a great, great evening. We had a lot of members there and we all had a real good time. Wish everyone lived close enough to join us. Well, that's all for this UPDATE, until next time, have a good one!
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I took these pictures a while back and I am just getting around to finally posting them. On our home page there is a link to Hammer Six's review of the Taowan Sd.kfz 222 German armored car. I haven't really shown you what he did with that model though. If you read his review and that of other folks around the web, you will know that this model had some problems. Hammer Six worked through the various issues and his 222 is a work of art. But don't take my word for it, here's the proof in living color. Most of the fit issues were related to the turret and the turret cover frame. Hammer six corrected those issues and then began working on creating a realistic finish. My pictures don't even begin to do the vehicle justice. The weathering is beautiful and unfortunately a lot of the really subtle technique is not visible in my photos. I particularly like his rust spots, they came off looking extremely real. This vehicle would be a museum piece if you just painted it, but Hammer Six's looks like it has been in the field. The weathering is perfect. I really like that rusty chain on the bumper, the rusty spring shocks and the rusty exhaust pipes. Sometimes the various rust paints can look a little too red too me, the rust that Hammer Six used look just perfect to me. I would like to know what you used buddy. The 222 has always been a favorite of mine. When I was building 1/35th scale models, I believe that I built no less than 3 or 4 off them. I would love to have one like this, but it is a little beyond my price range. It is such a great size for 1:6th. It is too bad that when 21st was still in business that we didn't get one of these along with that Panzer III they kept promising us. I would have been all over that. Well, that's all for tonight. Until next time, have a good one!
Well...time for a little science fiction tonight. Above was the photo I shot for GL's last photo contest, featuring my Stormtroopers in an "action" scene. I didn't place in the contest, but that really wasn't my goal as much as trying something different. I spent a lot of time working up my Mandalorian Stormtroopers, but never really had any plans for them in terms of featuring them in a story or series of stories. Sci Fi is just hard to do if you ask me; coming up with sets and locations, etc. The contest though was a chance to experiment with an idea that had been lurking in the back of my mind...that of doing a series of comic book covers with different figures...kind of "what might have been" story ideas (that is if I had more time for that sort of thing). A concept I am calling "THE PHOTO VIGNETTE". Right now, at this particular time in my life, I don't really have time or the space to build physical vignettes for my figures, but I can create photographic vignettes because they don't take up any space, except for megs on my hard drive. So...the discussion for this UPDATE is how would you define a Photo Vignette. If this a topic that interests you, tell me what you think the definition of a photo vignette would be and flesh out the concept. My own idea is something like what you see above, figures featured on magazine covers, but that is just one concept. I am sure that there are a whole lot more ideas out there. Unrelated to that discussion, here are a few pictures of my Stormtroopers. These were just some table top shots done without any Point Man magic, but they have never been seen before...so maybe someone will enjoy seeing them. And that's it for this week. We start back up on Sunday evening, so until next time, have a good one!
Hammer Six, Dr. Zorkon and Gun Shy were at the Lunken Air Show this weekend representing the SSCC with several tables. They gave out a ton of business cards with Ft. Thomas show information on them. They also had a great display. Hopefully Hammer Six will get on and give some more information because I am kind of sketchy on all the details, but it does look like it was a good show and that they made a lot of great contacts for the club. I am going to let some of Hammer Six's pictures tell the rest of the story and he can fill the details in with his comments. Hammer Six got the great pictures of the B-17 moving down the runway as it was taking off. I know it doesn't look like it is moving, but those propellers were actually spinning (just don't look like it in the photos). Below is a B-25 flying over the field. It is painted in D-Day invasion scheme. Below are a few pictures from the SSCC display that Hammer Six and Dr. Zorkon put together. They put together a really nice display and there was a lot of interest in the club and what we are doing. Hopefully some of those folks will come down and see us at Ft. Thomas. Until next time, have a good one!
Thought we might start the week out with a review. I don't know that I can talk too much about this figure because I don't really have any data and I obviously haven't seen the real figure yet, but we will retreat back to the old axiom that a picture is worth a thousand words. Several pictures then should be equivalent to a lengthy short story... Following some of Hot Toys lines (like Batman), I know that sometimes the reviews are mixed, especially when you consider the price, but I have to tell you that I certainly do like the looks of this one - Chris Taylor from Platoon. It looks like the actor Charlie Sheen and the uniform and gear looks first rate. Not only that, Hot Toys seems to have a commitment to accuracy as evidenced by the fact that they spend the money to get the license for their figures. And of course I am into Vietnam figures, so I was bound to like this one. But then, really what's not to like. They give you two heads and plenty of gear. It looks to be a pretty sweet figure. Years ago I bought a Sideshow version of this figure and though the sculpt and the uniform survived to surface into my Vietnam saga, the gear did not. The Sideshow gear was pretty sub-standard. But, enough of what I think, here are the rest of the pictures. You all tell me what you think of this one. I think it is pretty cool, but I will not spend as much as I know it's probably going to be to get my hands on one. I sure hope it gets parted out though, I want that claymore bag and the LAW. Well, I think it looks pretty sharp, but I am interested in hearing what you all think about the figure. And, will it be the only one? or will there be more characters from the movie? Inquiring minds want to know. Well, that is all for this time round, so until next time,
Just the other day, Panzercommander sent me some pictures of his excellent Italian Machine Gun Team, shot in a really cool desert-like location. I am going to let him do the talking for the rest of this Blog though because I know nothing about Italian units and he's got the straight scoop on these guys. So...here we go... Take it away Panzecommander! Machine Gun Team, 28th Regiment, |
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