Johnny Tip

WOW, I was sure it had to be 1/48 at least... fantastic!

I fear I will have to use this thread some time, when I do my next 1/48 Hurricane... she turned out to look absolutely splendid.

Thanks @Nick Belbin, I wouldn't have managed that anyway... but I wanted them to look used but not "old" - before the introduction of US. 50cal MGs. (shame, I have so many spares...)

wonderful, well done chris. (I was sure you knew a Wildcat from a Martlet.)

Are you sure you're okay with the paint of one of those spinners? 🤣so sorry, I couldn't resist. It looks, well, sounds very un-british, but I must say it, awesome. I love Hurricanes, but especially that one. Edit: I showed her to my wife, and she said I needed another Hurricane... 😳 okay, it's with a heavy heart, but if you insist... 😄

Hello Adam! How about a MD500 with stripes in yellow, orange and brown? (I know what you're thinking - it was inevitable)

Thank you @Bertie Psmith, @Das Abteilung and @Pete Robin. Something like the F-4 Phantom, not really "beautiful" but built for work. Especially this one, made from lots of sprue parts, blister packaging and some resin for audiologists - can't use it for customers any more, but for customizing models...

Thank you @The Great Escape and @PlaStix! btw here is that reference pic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Caravan#/media/File%3ATutira_1.jpg

2nd of course - season one. Ving Rhames taught me the word "honkey" in one episode... 😂

this looks better than most of my "better" cars!

Welcome Andrei, lots of people here who did their research... I've come to like that part too.

Hello my friends, some months ago there was a Delta Force FAV on here... when the kit came out, I wanted it. But couldn't; can't remember why. So I started something very unusual for me -I scratched a vehicle. Upon seeing the few pics of the newly-developed "Flyer" for the US SOCOM, I had to do it. Just don't check the measurements... Those wheels were copied from a 1/24 1970 Challenger. The winch was... I think an electronic coil from some broken VCR, something like that. Not my best work, but lots of creativity... hope you like it. Until next time, Johnny Tip

I did my uboat with one side closed, one side open... but any choice you make is fine. Helluva noise dremelling those Flutschlitze, ain't it?😂 looking fine so far.

with that title, I was expecting something like a surrendering Jerry in the area of Wesel... 😂 Your work is certainly kein Plunder! (rubbish, worthless in german) great idea with the paintings!

"You can never have too many spitfires!" (H. Dowding) 😉 Not related to Captain Kaarlonen by any chance? 😂

I don't see too much sucking with those figures... yes, the officer with the field cap hasn't had the seam removed on his right leg, but I needed years of fruitless figure painting to get the faces look anything like that! Like the side walls very much, as well. A moment that keeps bringing my thoughts to Blackadder's "Goodbyeee" and the fear that lad going up first must have felt if he'd been on the front for even a few weeks (days?)

thank you Chris @spruecutter96 ! If only all my works would turn out even half as good...

thank you @Homer.

Thank you both @Bertie Psmith and @Pete Robin! It took lots of placing trials, and decisions to leave out a jeep and more folks... (in fact, I had another base planned. and built.) My main thought was to NOT have them dig their truck out of the sand.

I am on board if you'll have me...

Hi Wheat! Was John Madden right, do they eat "big ol' bratwurst" in Cincy? Welcome here!

Me too likes the figures and the story - as you had to mention Sean Connery, his words immediately sprung to mind: "think they know shomething we don't?" at the sight of lunatics laughing at his men... And now I can't shtop thinking in that voishe again. Rather embarrashing. How'd buliding thoshe Miniart offishersh go? I like 'em, might buy them...

I like the scene, calm Nam dio +1 Where's Zeke Anderson and that Stones soundtrack?

Hello everyone, after moving, settling in and working on the smaller things in the house (still not finished), I found some time to get on with my 2nd beloved desert Chevy, and set up a diorama (no foliage, thank goodness ) -I hope you like it. that board actually existed, and Tutira III was parked next to it on a well-known photo. that gunner wears a german sidecap... when in doubt, brew-up. those wheels will not split within the next few years btw -I copied them into resin. that corner needed a little something... so I decided to place another bloke there, getting ready for his undercover mission. The frame was filled with an old formed part of plaster, and new one. Those rocks were glued on, partly to hide some air bubbles in the plaster -and painted. The Lads are of course Masterbox' lot, Tamiya's driver (and parts of their gunner) and one ANZAC from ICMs WWI set. (ta for the hat and some equipment. Oh yes, equipment was, like in real life, a mix of assigned, scrounged and rebuilt stuff. One covered wheel is originally from a Humvee, and I built that Vickers gun myself out of a surplus M2 .50 cal. Jerry cans were included, those big flimsies too. Two per truck, won't last very long -so more resin ones had to be made. The rebuild of Tutira III into a NON-radio truck went surprisingly fast, with lots of blister packaging. Oh, almost forgot the disguised man -he was originally french, from Heller's Kufra set. As said before, I hope you had fun, any comments are welcome! (I have read much online, but there's still a lot to know about the LRDG) Greetings, Johnny Tip PS if better suited in the AV section, please reassign at will!

He ain't got no time to bleed...