YIPEE! It's great to come back!

That was my reaction when comming back on Armorama after a week holiday and find some great looking pictures in the MP campaign gallery!

Thanks Animal, Danial and Darktrooper!

Also found out USNavy2534 finnished his MP Humvee in a very special way also.

I'm starting the scratchbuilding parts of my Brittish MP VW Beetle soon.
Pictures are comming up!

How's the rest comming along during the summer?
Keep us posted!

Paul

Hey Paul

'still slugging along.Figures are about 95% done,M113 60%, VW Beatle 0%.Good thing we have lots of time yet.

Hey Jim, good to hear from you!
Indeed a good thing we have some time left.
I notice a bunch of members are on (well deserved) holiday, so it's very quit on the 'campaign front' this month.
Paul

Hey Paul

This is my progress on my M113 for the campaign.Still working on the gear for the roof.Once this is done I'll start on the dio. for it and the figures.



Jim

P.S. Hows the VW coming along.Those pics sure are taking along time. :-)

Hey Jim,

Man, that looks good. I like that little fading of the markings on the side and the red mud. How did you do the visor? Is it painted? Looks like real glass.




Yeah, yeah, I know hehehehe.... I always want to dod it and think, tomorrow, tomorrow....
But I promise you: before the end of the week the first pictures will be here :-)

Paul

You guys give my panic. I haven't even figured out yet what I should do and you are almost finished...

Don't worry Thomas! :-) :-)
My VW is far from beeing finnished... I'm afraid I need all the time to the end of the campaign.

Paul

Hi Paul
The vision blocks are very simple.They are painted silver (or any bright metal colour ie steel,aluminum....).Then mix green/blue India ink in Tamiya clear until you are happy with the colour.Paint the clear mixture over the silver and............you have vision blocks.
This was the first kit I did it on and I am quite happy the way it turned out.

Jim

Completed and photos in gallery

As an ex MP myself I had to take part in this campaign. I have finally settled on a subject. I'm attempting a vignette based on Tony Vaccaro's photo of an 83rd Inf Div MP directing traffic in Passau Germany 1945 from his book"Entering Germany". He's standing in front of a concrete street lamp with about a hundred unit signs and directions on it.Using artistic lisence I might add a returning german POW. Now all I have to do is start. Any good sites showing US MP uniforms?

Hi Pat,

Actually I was looking for such a site myself but I could not find it. Perhaps you can find some info at the site of the US MP School: http://www.wood.army.mil/usamps/default.htm

However, I did found some B&W pictures of MP's in occupied Germany, if you like I can email them to you.

Paul

Thanks Paul but I probably did the same exhaustive search as you did. I guess us redcaps are just not too popular. This is the figure I'm attempting.
Copyright is Tony Vaccaro's.


I tried direct linking to this photo in ,my gallery photos but it wouldn't work

Hey Pat, I can't open that link... I get an access denied message...
Can you mail it to me?

Paul

Paul you should see it now
If not it's in "My photos"

Hey Pat, looks good!

Here's a simular one, Germany 1945
I've got some other pictures collected ("for personal use") on this link: http://www.dse.nl/~sonne/mpvintage (Part of the MP Campaign info page on my old website).
I think some picture are interesting for more of us here.



Paul

Hi all,

As promised ( specialy to Jim :-) ) here are some pictures of my model and what it should look like when it is finnished...

Paul

Comming along great Paul,looks good as do all the updates and finished work.

Mine must go on hold for a week or so,but when I get back I'll be hard at it again.

Jim

Well my 113 is now about 99% done.Some small details to paint but that is it.



Time to put the rest on hold and work on my car for the 500.

Jim

Hi Jim,

A pitty you have to take a hold! It's looking so good I can't hardly wait to see the end result. But than again: I have the same situation and the 500 ends sooner :-)

The model looks real nice, very good stowage and excellent figures as far as I can see. Nice to see your progress compared to the earlier picture. It looks the vehicle runs over a bump, according to the position of the track; so that's a promising for the dio.

I like the color and texture of the mud very much, but looking at it again I think the mud is a bit too "straight" applied on the back; I would suspect more 'spatters' on the hull. But than again, this can be particular for this vehicle and I'm not so in modern armour, so... not much said about that

Paul