Rare Photo of 1940

Vietnam Huey Slick Dio

http://www.scale-rotors.com/gallery/utility-helicopters/bell-uh-1d-huey-slick-dragon

Additional items

• Dragon 1/35 Viet Cong 3304
• Dragon Huey Slick
  
• Dragon 1/35 U.S. 1St Cavalry 3312
• Andrea Miniatures 1/32 S2A2 Ox
• Verlinden 1/35 Vietnamese Civilians 298

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Salt Weathering

Simulating paint chips and wear with salt

This close up shows how rust had caused the paint on the side of this AFV to flake away. Paint can also be removed due to regular wear and abrasions.

Introduction

This tutorial will provide a step-by-step guide to a technique that simulates paint chipping and rust effects using common table salt. The method is quick, easy and relatively forgiving.

Background

The pristine appearance of combat vehicles and aircraft when they come out of the factory does not tend to last very long when subjected to the hard realities of life in the field.
Even during times of peace, military equipment gets rough treatment since it will be subject to exercises that simulate combat. As a result, the upper coats of paint will often show the underlying layers due to wear and tear, corrosion, or accidents.

This German fighter plane exhibits unusual paint wear near the nose.Unless you intend to make your models as they appeared when brand new, then you will have to face the problem of simulating wear, damage and dirt - generally known as 'weathering'.

A Door to the Past Remember this one?

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUI-9cJt63_QagItnBG8WdSoJKnMVw1SLHOWkvK53uTw1WshfGnOGpjqYFBLgfaonYLiTUqg8GP2Z1Dl5fzWxN-MXy6DCFQ8zOgipp6tSCbv6gBlFFxsdKBwq_rb0x36IQyFLWRDiP08/s1600-h/IMG_0764.JPG

My own Scratchbuild Aerosan

Incredible 1918 Picture

This INCREDIBLE picture was taken in 1918.
It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge , in Iowa .

EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN!!!!!

FACTS:
Base to Shoulder: 150 feet
Right Arm: 340 feet
Widest part of arm holding torch: 12 1/2 f eet
Right thumb: 35 feet
Thickest part of body: 29 feet
Left hand length: 30 feet
Face: 60 feet
Nose: 21 feet
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet
Torch and flame combined: 980 feet
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000


Total men: 18,000

WW2 Ski Sleds Aerosan

RF-8 or GAZ-98

NKL-26 Aerosan

aerosan

An aerosan (Russian: aэросани, aerosani, literally 'aerosled') is a type of propeller-powered snowmobile, running on skis, used for communications, mail deliveries, medical aid, emergency recovery and border patrolling in northern Russia, as well as for recreation. Aerosans were used by the Soviet Red Army during the Winter War and the Second World War.

The first aerosans may have been built by young Igor Sikorsky in 1909–10, before he built multi-engine airplanes and helicopters. They were very light plywood vehicles on skis, propelled by old airplane engines and propellers.

Military aerosans

Military use of the aerosan goes back to at least the 1920s. During the 1939–40 Winter War against Finland, some were equipped with a machine-gun ring mount on the roof. They could carry four to five men, and tow four more on skis. The aerosans were initially used for transport, liaison, and medical evacuation in deep snow, and mostly used in open country and on frozen lakes and rivers because of their poor hill-climbing ability and limited manoeuvrability on winding forest roads.

During WWII, aerosans were found to be useful for reconnaissance and light raiding in northern areas, thanks to their high mobility in deep snow (25–35 km/h, where many vehicles couldn't move at all). Responsibility for aerosans was transferred to the Soviet Armoured Forces (GABTU) and orders were submitted for design and fabrication of lightly-armoured versions, protected by ten millimetres of steel plate on front.

http://www.armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/sani/

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Aerosan

http://www.armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/sani/?img=sani4.jpg.html

www.wikipedea.com

I tried my own scratchbuild version for the Germans:

Glossary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations WW2

http://www.feldgrau.com/glossary.html
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

Miniart Latest figures

Euro-Militaire 2009

http://militarymodelling.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/euro-militaire-2009/

Dragon changing direction

6574 - German Warriors 1940-41
Despite what war movies might purport to show, the majority of a soldier’s time is not spent in frontline combat. Dragon’s latest 1/35 scale figure set is thus an accurate portrayal of a war scene, for it shows German soldiers performing various mundane but nevertheless essential activities. Buckling up a belt, adjusting a chin strap, taking off a tunic or putting on personal gear are pretty ordinary events, but these are exactly the kind of things these five figures are doing. While perhaps not as dramatic as firing a weapon or performing a bayonet charge, these kinds of actions are certain to lend an air of authenticity to a modeler’s dioram a.

The German figures represent the early-war period, suitable for any European theater in 1940-41. Each figure is masterfully molded and anatomically accurate. The faces are carefully scuplted, as are their everyday actions. They wear a variety of uniforms, including three Wehrmacht soldiers dressed in typical M1935 field gray tunics, trousers and leather boots. Meanwhile, one figure is kitted out as a Panzer crewman, while the final one would suit a Sturmartillerie unit. Modelers are always clamoring for more figures to populate their dioramas and vignettes, and they don’t come any more practical than this! With its credible and lifelike poses, this set will find multiple uses in many dioramas to come.

Unusual Diorama

http://cs.finescale.com/forums/1146035/ShowPost.aspx

Biggest Diorama? Roadside America Pennsylvania

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/pennsylvania/berkscounty/shartlesville/roadsideamerica/index.htm

Probably the coolest exhibit of all time: a 9335-sq-ft mini New York called the Panorama, with each building in the city shown. You walk in to one side, and go up a ramp encircling the......
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/visitpanorama


http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=827&Itemid=4338

Abandoned tanks website

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abandoned_tanks

Bob Letterman's Museum

http://www.bobletterman.com/wordpress/?cat=87
http://tanksandthings.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=53&func=view&catid=15&id=1333

Dragon's latest figures

1/35 "Fragile Alliance" Axis Forces, Balkan 1943 (4 Figures Set)

After Italy ventured into Albania in 1939, Mussolini decided to invade Greece on 28 October 1940. The Italian armed forces found it hard going, and in fact, it required the intervention of German forces attacking via Yugoslavia to finally capture the region. Yugoslavia and Greece were divided into sectors, with Italian, German, Bulgarian and Rumanian forces policing these occupied territories against determined partisan resistance.

Italy occupied two-thirds of Greece (including its islands), Albania and the Yugoslav coast. Although they were supposed to be allies, there was often tension in the relationship between Germany and Italy. After Benito Mussolini was ousted in July 1943, the country signed a secret armistice on 3 September, bringing Italy’s combat involvement in WWII to an end. German forces in Italy and the Balkans moved quickly to disarm their former allies and to take up critical defensive positions, with significant violence taking place in some garrisons.

Great unknown dioramas

Diorama Accessories and Groundwork Supplies

http://www.milminwh.com/groundwork_&_diorama_aids.htm

Battle of the Bulge Diorama

see the rest of the pics here!

http://www.dynamicdioramas.org/MODEL%20SOURCE/bulge/