Hi guys, I decided to build a dio using the old Tamyia 232 armored car for the new Under the Sun group build. Its a pretty old kit with 1974 stamped on the sprues. The instructions are all in Japanese but the build is fairly easy if you have any experience at all :-) The second shot shows the base I will be using and 2 days worth of work and a rough mock up of the layout






Working title is "Happy to be alive ". Will keep you posted Don

Here's the second shot.

Looks great...

I messed with aolder Monogram Model a while back

Keep up the great work! I look forwardto seeing it in progress and finished

John
www.johnneill.com

It's looking good !
You must have spent quite a bit of time on this for 2 days !
it will be a perfect target for my valentine !

Pigpen, Only about 4hrs on the 232 so far, its really an easy staight forward build. as far as the figures go I always keep alot of primed figures ready to go. (see pic below) I build them while waiting for things to dry

Hey Water:
I don't see any Allies in that shot..... (or do I?)

Pork chop , Thats the german shelf , the allied shelf is the smaller shelf on the wall on the left

Waterboy! That work area looks better stocked than most hobby shops I go to!LOL!!!!

Here's the rest of the storage that storage room and a closet that I keep most of my 1/72 scale airplanes that I have. (phase I went through a few years back). I also have a smaller storage room across the hall in the basement. Plastiholic to the max

Dear Lieutenant, Sir,

I am a lowly PFC, but wouldn't a bit of elevation variance add some interest? Even in the desert, the landscape is not really flat. Do a diorama of Western Kansas. Now that's flat!

Sealhead

it looks good so far. about the model boxex. they look great.i saw a model that i have too in your last picture. a me bf 110 in !;72 from matchbox. right. or is it bigger?

i do the same thing! I have about 100 figures around at all times, and another 20-30 special figures that I save for particular schemes I plan in the future. I've got about 50% in resin, but have really become a BIG fan of the DML series of figures.

CLEARLY CANADIAN!!! that's like the best drink ever!! i wish i could have all of those models just lying around.

Waterboy,
Are you married ? If you are, I really need to put my wife online to talk to your wife !
Boy, that's modeler's heaven !

Jan, I 'm married to a wonderful woman who enjoys my hobby and supports my plastiholic addiction. In fact we just had a recent anniversary and her gift to me was $100 gift certificate to my favorite hobby shop. Don't get me wrong though she will give me hell if I'm inside sprinkling snow when I should be outside shoveling it