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    Greetings Skysters!

    Back to the Workbench! Just created a new paint station, our local hobby center sold out their air compressors so I suddenly needed a new one.

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    Now to put it to work!

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    David,

    What is the tri-wing plane sitting on the front right corner?

    Jim

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    What dreams, lawsuits and nightmares are made of. The Mannesmann Triplane. 10 engines, 14 guns, 2 cannons, crew of dozens, said to be capable of bombing the US and returning to Germany . . . 12 built by the elves, no April fools . . . Search for it on the site . . .

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    David;
    with summer coming, I hope you installed AC there
    Karl
    It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus

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    Nice to see Clipper back at the helm, welcome back.

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    Please see my plane storage completion post on the WGF A Storage System for My Biplanes thread in the Hobby Room. A sample:

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    Jim

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    Always good to see how others store their planes. I use those cases for my unofficial planes.

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    Clipper, The Mannesmann Triplane is pretty darn awesome looking! Is that a shapeways or something or did you scratch built that beast?

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    Don't really have a dedicated area, just a temporary corner of the kitchen table. Such is life at the moment, but grateful I do get in a little painting now and then.

    Next up a pair of DVIIs and the French WW2 air force!

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    Quote Originally Posted by camelbeagle View Post
    Clipper, The Mannesmann Triplane is pretty darn awesome looking! Is that a shapeways or something or did you scratch built that beast?
    Try here:

    https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...ght=Mannesmann

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
    Don't really have a dedicated area, just a temporary corner of the kitchen table. Such is life at the moment, but grateful I do get in a little painting now and then.

    Next up a pair of DVIIs and the French WW2 air force!

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    That works!

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    love the aircraft recognition poster! is that to assist keeping your myriad of projects sorted lol?

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    It will be something to see those French planes when we get together again. Just painted up a few AIM planes I received a few weeks ago. At least I have some things to work on. Hope to get one of them decaled tomorrow. This will be a normal planes but a different air force.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milcoll73 View Post
    love the aircraft recognition poster! is that to assist keeping your myriad of projects sorted lol?
    Found it framed at Hobby Lobby just before the plague, couldn't resist . . . they may come back . . .

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    Okay, Clipper. That is pretty neat. Did that thing Mannesmann actually get built and fly? Interesting....very interesting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by camelbeagle View Post
    Okay, Clipper. That is pretty neat. Did that thing Mannesmann actually get built and fly? Interesting....very interesting!
    There is rumored to be a single wheel in a museum in England. A few photos of the fuselage under construction have been found. All are claimed to be ruses intended to extort government funds to a steel tube/fast boat company in the later years of the war in Germany. I did find an intriguing master's dissertation of all things online that tells that story, but the proposal and description of the time tell a most thrilling concept that some people believed enough to invest a ton of money into the project. See the links above and I did a few threads on it in the distant past . . . I also built 13 of them as war prizes for cons and our poets here on the site. . . just ordered the copy of Aero featuring it in the cover . . . . always something fun to research . . . I think it was Zoe who found the first color rendering in lozenge for the project, cool to have such group efforts here!

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    Started these last month & just finished them off:
    A figure conversion of a 20mm Liberation Mini's figure, switching out an M.21 for a pump shotgun, to add to the collection.
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    And this one has been kicking around for the last twelve months - obviously to go with my moderns - thought it would be neat to have it suspended over the table when called up in a game... went for the 1/144 scale model as that suited the budget & the look I was after... it started life like this:
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    The colours are a little iffy & there's a little more detail to add but you get the idea. Beware the Reaper.

    "He is wise who watches"

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    Love the painting station Clipper, I have to make do with a cover on the dining table.

    Never Knowingly Undergunned !!

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    Finally took photos so here is the first one up. E13A (JAKE) from AIM with MISCMINI decals, well part of them. When I was looking at pictures there were a few of a JAKE in THAI markings. So having THAI decals I now have a JAKE for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN). I saw the anchor on a white or yellow disk but I just put a THAI roundel there and the anchor on the nose.

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    The spinner is yellow which is the color of the king. The tail number, in Thai, is 18.

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    OK, chunk of a commission finished tonight. Anyone up for some light reading?

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    Ooooh, nice library!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    That Library minis would perfectly match the Mystery of the Abbey detective boardgame that my wife, our daughter and me play every now and then.
    Great miniatures.
    They remind me of my miniature workshop opened last weekend...



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    "We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowcat View Post
    OK, chunk of a commission finished tonight. Anyone up for some light reading?

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    ooooohhhhhhhh spellbooks!!!

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    Here are some P-47's. AIM models with MISCMINI decals. Paint scheme is from a P-47 at the Air Force museum but the squadron markings (HV) are different.

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    Fantastic library Ken. Never ran into one with my dwarf character though.

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    T-bolts...one of my favorite WWII fighters. Very nice.

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    Ken, those are some awesome Thunderbolts. I also love the library scenery. Would go great with Gloomhaven!

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    When I was looking at markings for the P-47 I noticed that the list of who didn't have P-47's was way shorter then the people that had them. Here are 2 I did for the ROC AF. They used them in the Chinese civil war. SO here are 2 of hem.

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ID:	284891 Not sure o the actual markings but here is my take on them. I saw that Red is a lucky color for the Chinese so gave them red cowlings.
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    More nice Thunderbolts. Its obvious what you are spending your shut in time doing, huh Bob? Keep it up!

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    OK, part 2 of the job I was working on.

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    Nice ogre like things.. what make are the miniatures?

    Never Knowingly Undergunned !!

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    Chris, not really sure but they were a softish white plastic so assuming Reaper Bones?

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    Using a door as a shield!

    I've done that...……...
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Using a door as a shield!

    I've done that...……...
    Me too; I bet we both called them Scutums, though.
    Karl
    It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jager View Post
    Me too; I bet we both called them Scutums, though.
    Karl
    I called mine "George"
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    We called ours a pavise

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    Some of the bits and pieces I've been working on:








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    See you on the Dark Side......

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    Excellent work on the Germans Neil
    Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!

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    Like the troops, building have much promise.

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    I love how he did the the snow on the bases. Really nice every bit of them. looks like they are ready to jump out of my screen and invade.

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    Very nice Neil. Are there Russians to go along with the Germans ?

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    I've got Russians, Blitzkreig Germans, Early French and BEF to do (hoping lockdown goes on for a few more weeks).

    Plus the Stalingrad buildings to finish, rubble piles for Maverick and a few others in the pipeline.
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    Sounds like my stash, Have early war French, Germans, Japs, And US armies in reserve for when I get spare time. Hmmmm....Maybe after finishing the Black seas stuff,......AND... last couple of zombicide KS's, the Warlord MASH Box set, Odd Balls Sherman, couple of Flames of War armies, A ton of Black Powder 25mm Nappies, And a few thousand 15mm Nappies...sigh...so little time.

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    i get cold just looking at them neil!

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