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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Gunbird on 25 March 2007, 10:38:35 AM
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I'm always looking to add more lead to the pile so to speak, testing out figureres (or just buying them for the hell of it)
I visited Ground Zero Games this time and bought some 25mm Stargrunt.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/comparison.jpg)
And seperated per type:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSGV-10.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSGE-27.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSGO-30.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSGF-26.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSGN-23.jpg)
And my little special this week. You'll see what it goes with in 1-2 months time, but it is big.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/FW190floatplane.jpg)
Johan
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Whoa! An FW-190 floatplane! Neat-o! :o
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Man you realy have nice Ideas !!!
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(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/GZGSF-A23.jpg)
If these work well for me they should do wonders for you 28mm lot, right?
Johan
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Added some paint, but not nearly enough......
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/floatwip.jpg)
Johan
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I liked these so much I ordered up a few, cause they work for me too.....
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/WormFrauDoktor.jpg)
<gulp.....>
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/WormFrauDoktorLarge.jpg)
Talk about opening a can of worms......might even order up another batch and cut them up so to make them freshly emerged.
Johan
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Quick WIP pic, had some more fun with a diecast paintjob I started...ehm....last year. Only need to repaint the base, exhaust and wheels....that will propably take me a few more months. Gloss black + gloss varnish, no highlights (with black gloss, why bother?)
It's herr Flicks car btw (well, supposed to be anyway)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/Flickcar.jpg)
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Johan, I love your stuff. I love that it's 20mm, and I love how much Weird War material you have. It's all coming along great.
The car is very sleek and black looking. Like an evil beetle.
But if you have that many purple worms in your house, you might need to call pest control.
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Thx mate, appreciate that. Now to keep you busy some more....
I give you this link >>
http://uk.geocities.com/john.paterson59@btinternet.com/left_top_frames_page.htm
And now I'll show you that I'm not afraid to use it, see it as a small homage to John's work, and a way to work my way through 5 boxes of Me-109E's, made by Matchbox before I was born, resold under Revell and repackaged under some Italian company.......
http://uk.geocities.com/john.paterson59@btinternet.com/wasp.jpg
After 1 night of building, a lot cutting and messing about with solid and liquid sytrene paste (hence the blob on the tail).....
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/Bf109WaspWIP.jpg)
I'm enjoying this one, want to add a magnet to the nose for a hook to connect to a zeppelin (or rack) and one to the bottom so it can be catapult launched. No wheels down version for this baby, she's a light and nimble parasite-fighter. Made the tail slightly longer to balance the plane a bit more, but apart from that no concessions.
Here's to you John.
Johan
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A bit cleaned up, and now with tail
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/parasitetail.jpg)
She now needs a magnet in the nose (to take either a spinning or a non spinning prop), between the nose guns (to mount the grab hook) and in the bottom (to mount the catapult skid)
The first is a go, not sure yet about the other 2.
Colourscheme will be along these lines:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/ideevoordeparasietcensor.jpg)
(as she will be a pre war bird, more skin to Indiana's Adventures)
But I want to replace the Swastika with these:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/SALUTE2007hourofglory2.jpg)
(found this pic in a blog about this years Salute)
More acceptable for the crowd yet still instantly recognisable....yes?
Johan
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If you want to, why not? You´re in the Netherlands, so they won´t prosecute you on grounds of $86 and86a...
Very cuddly little plane. And that SS goon car is even better. Could you post a frontal 3/4 sometime?
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Love the parasite fighter! You did a great job cleaning up the panel lines for the join.
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This business with the Swastikas has made me think. If we post pics here with Swastikas on them (I have some little model Nazi flags that I use in WWII games, it's conceivable that I might post pictures of a game with them in), as this is a German-hosted site, would that leave Alex open to prosecution under Germany's anti-Nazi laws?
Don't want to get anyone into trouble. Do we need to be careful here?
(I can understand how Germans would not want folks marching up and down the street waving Nazi flags, but not letting little model ME-109s have Swastikas on them does seem a little barmy. Almost like an Orwellian attempt to pretend it didn't happen, wipe the symbol from history as it were. I've noticed that most kits of Nazi planes in the UK no longer have Swastika transfers or box art, either. It is very odd.)
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This business with the Swastikas has made me think. If we post pics here with Swastikas on them (I have some little model Nazi flags that I use in WWII games, it's conceivable that I might post pictures of a game with them in), as this is a German-hosted site, would that leave Alex open to prosecution under Germany's anti-Nazi laws?
Don't want to get anyone into trouble. Do we need to be careful here?
From my knowledge of §86 and 86a, it might get problematic because it is not in a strictly scientific or educational context. So, of course, it would the the easiest (and probably best) thing to leave swastikas off or only link to the pictures, not using the [img] tags. However, even the link might prove problematic, although you CAN disassociate yourself from links posted in your internet sites, several cases of judicial ruling in recent months have made life for admins of fora much more difficult.
(I can understand how Germans would not want folks marching up and down the street waving Nazi flags, but not letting little model ME-109s have Swastikas on them does seem a little barmy. Almost like an Orwellian attempt to pretend it didn't happen, wipe the symbol from history as it were. I've noticed that most kits of Nazi planes in the UK no longer have Swastika transfers or box art, either. It is very odd.)
As I understand it, it´s an "all-or-nothing" thing. That is to say, on one hand, it might be construed as using the swastika to increase sales (the kit being more "historically accurate" than without). On the other, if you allow model kit manufacturers (and modellers) display swastikas on their models, it would be more difficult to NOT allow the nazis to display them. I see the reasoning behind it. We can still display swastikas in school and history books, as well as in museums, as long as it´s in the aforementioned scientific and educational context, and it is not used to trivialize or promote anticonstitutional and criminal ideologies and concepts.
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Many things you find on the internet might not be so legal in your country, whichever. Governments should live with it. As long as it's got nothing to do with things are world wide banned (such as child porn) I don't think anybody makes a lot of trouble, unless you already are under suspicion and one finds the links or pics, it might add to your problem.
The reverse side is displayed by countries like China where the internet is censured or like in Egypt where they put you in jail for having a blogg where someone has posts that the government doesn't like.
Discretion and common sence I should think, works a long way.
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I agree with Johan's statements, but I'd like to add that, in the end, this is Alex' website. So as far as I'm concerned, his word is law. Maybe he can share his vision and/or wishes?
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Wow, wasn't expecting this many replies.....
First, when I joined I specifically asked Alex if I should not post anything with Swastika's as this is a German site. he said, yes please.
So I blacked out the armbands on my pulp guys, only to find that some other posters in between then and now just showed them without censoring them. Struck me as kind of odd.
Come to think of it, I should have blotted out the symbol on the 109 as well, oh well.
Anyway, I'm a guest here, and I submit to the owners law, if he says no, it's no. Period.
Johan
(Btw, to the other Johan from Antwerp, Johan from the TSA I assume?)
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Generally speaking it's better not to show the swastika on the pics in this forum. But I won't certainly run after each swastika appearance here and remove it. I think common sense will help you to decide what to show and what not.
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So I blacked out the armbands on my pulp guys, only to find that some other posters in between then and now just showed them without censoring them.
Thanks for removing. I'm not really a fan of censoring. I dont think that the occasional posting of the swastika would make us troubles. But be sure I will not allow the posting of it on regular basis.
But i know, the setting of clear rules is better. I will think about.
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I think common sense will help you to decide what to show and what not.
Common Sense? there are Yanks here (self-inclusive), right? we don't get Common Sense in school, we're taught "When offended, Litigate! It's why God created lawyers." :lol:
i jest of course. i find this hobby, on all geo-political fronts, attracts a more rational following - all our money goes to lead not lawyers! and we tend to see history's trappings and images as enjoyable, lampoonable and "gameable". take for instance the Pulp interests we all seem to have: the true bigotted half wit would think it history and true about the Red Menace, the Vodoo Shaman out for Whitey, etc and never enjoy the hilarity in the genre!
i paint with a broad brush here, and make many generalities but, never with Common Sense. the Common Man doesn't vote or read (or game*). that alone makes us Uncommon Men (and Women! 8) ).
* if the COmmon Man gamed more, then i and another aquaintance would not have had to close our own (each) game stores ... but i won't cry over that ... much.
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I have edited out the Swastika of the plane, just for consistency sake and cause I felt I should.
No progress pics for today, but I have added magnets to the prop and to the bottom for the catapult attachment.
Can't seem to decide where I want to put the grappling hook, on the nose or just behind the cockpit
Alos magnetised the prop on the floatplane and did some more work on finishing the engine on that one. And I dropped the aircraft on the floot. Only broke the tailwheel, it's....somewehere :oops:
Johan
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And another small update.
Picked up a few extendable arials for 50 cents and been toying with them for stands, sanded the tip of one down and added a rare earth magnet. Now all I need to do is make a base for it, so I've nabbed me an old CD. Should be a proper size, and with some MDF for slotting the stand in it should be ok.
Glued a magnet to the bottom of the aircraft as well, and added some length to the nose (by accident) as the prop is now magbased too. When she is done I'll make me a clear acetate prop as well.
Still pondering on the hook, in front of the cockpit or behind it........
And the pics:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/parasitepr.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/parasitepr1.jpg)
I filled around the magnet with liquid sprue, so that thing is there to stay
Johan
PS She sure looks patchy, blown up to twice her size. And I sure am blessed, such an amazing wealth of aircraft kits available for hours and hours of fun...
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Nice-y!
A note on the coupling hook: now, we all know pulp isn´t about realism, but I guess it would be the sensible thing to place the hook where the pilot can see it, ie in front of the canopy...
... of course, in Crimson Skies, all hooks are retractable.
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Here's how it would go on the real thing:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/macon.gif)
A job to know how to convert that to a mono-plane, though. It's going to be right in the pilot's face! (But then I suppose it already is on the biplane version, too.)
You could have the base of the hook behind the cockpit, but have the hook itself arching forward over his head, so he can see the front of it to line up his "landing" (or whatever you call it).
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Ah, the Makon taxi service system :lol:
We'll see, I have the 2 options, and just need to embed a magnet where I want it and make 2 hooks, 1 extended and 1 retracted.
Thx for the comments.
Johan
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And just traded a load of micro armour for a (semi armoured) HO scale train plus carts, some V2 and V1 rockets and other assorted late war stuff.
Also managed to find my missing B&B miniatures...hideous and Mr. Potatoheaded as they are, they will be painted too eventually, the Gestapo and goons are just to appealing not to.
And to equip various airfields i won 2 lots with over 40 made aircraft in need of some love and care.....don't ask why......
Johan
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I've decided to skip the aircraft mounted clamp and go for a zeppelin mounted clamp the little blighters have to dock with ....and it will then clamp on the wings. If I switch them around they make great drop racks for the fighters too (like the Starfuries in Babylon 5). I'll make 1 or more of these racks on a later date, now I'm looking at a few aircraft catapults for the Imperial Japanese Navy for that (saves me a boatload of time scratchbuilding one, and u usually get a nice floatplane with it to boot.
Which means that beside a small bit of sanding and making or finding the correct spinner and clearsheet to make a moving spinner and plugging in het tailwheel, she is now ready to be basecoated, yahoo! :D
Johan
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Another smallish update
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/wespe.jpg)
I have to paint the underside, give a number on the other wing, do a free hand wasp on the nose, etc etc....u get the idea.
Johan
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That is an adorable plane. You've been very busy lately!
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April huh? Time flies.
Having 30 projects at once means I have plenty of variation. Or too much, you be the judge.
So here is a minor update, didnt do the entire tail yet as I'm still undecisive about the swastika. Though at the moment its 90% jay and 10% nay.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/wipfloatplane1.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/wipfloatplane2.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Pulp/wipfloatplane3.jpg)
After this its on to the streaks of green, then the streaks of dark grey and then a few flecks of bare aluminium. Base and done. (I make it sound so fast and easy now :roll: )
Johan
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20mm or 28mm, it should do well for both. No real time period, it will have a concrete base though.
Derelict or just not very well maintained water tower - wip.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20Moderns/wipwatertower.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20Moderns/wipwatertowerdetail.jpg)
lots more red to add, and rust, and concrete base, etc etc. I'm aiming for December :oops:
Johan
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That Focke-Wulf Seaplane is awesome. The winter camo is particularly nice.
The tower looks a bit toyish to me, but I´m sure the final result will be great.
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Well, propably cause it is a toy from a toy race/train track :D I'm having a hard time finding good, proper metal stuff like that. This was a steal for something up to 50 eurocents I believe. Can't beat that.
Thx Crhis :)
Johan
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Well, propably cause it is a toy from a toy race/train track :D
I assumed so much! :lol:
I'm having a hard time finding good, proper metal stuff like that. This was a steal for something up to 50 eurocents I believe. Can't beat that.
Agree on that. Just wanted to express that this piece will take some work... the proportions look a bit awkward. But anyway, I´ll wait for the final piece.
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My first (proper) holiday in quite some time so time to get old stuff done asap.
Some more progress on the floatplane, redid the base (much smaller now) and started chipping the floats. Also decalled the well known rune onto the tail. Should be done this week.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/floatplaneprogress.jpg)
A old die cast toy train that scaled remarkably well to 20mm I traded with V quite some time ago. The rather bright green scheme it had wasn't quite me so I repainted it last night. In an hour. Just cause I felt like it. :mrgreen: You will see it back someday in my (future) cityscape and (much sooner) bunker complex for hauling supplies like secret prototypes etc.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Wehrmachttrain02.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Wehrmachttrain01.jpg)
Then we have a HaT FT-17, a little tail mod on it, ready for airfield and bunker defence. And also my entry for the Guild painting competition. Never had this much fun chipping :lol: Barring the rune (which I use for certain items for my pulp bits) completely historically correct (well, I copied off a pic :D )
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Beutepanzer1.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Beutepanzer2.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Beutepanzer3.jpg)
And last but not least for now, my WIP Patrol boat for my modern skirmish. Based off a toy, very extensively reworked, magnets imbedded in 3 positions for various weapons (so I can use her for Yanks, Germans, Russians and rebel/pirate scum. Think Pirates of the Vistula for anyone familiar with Twilight 2000. And yes, I have a Vulcan minigunturret heading my way as we speak to mount on the aft deck.....)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/GunboatWIP1censor.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20Moderns/GunboatWIP2.jpg)
The deck gun can be freely swapped and is a, wel I think anyway, 37mm or 40mm gun from one of my 1/72 S-100 Schnellboote kits that was spare. Working on a sanbagged crows nest, radar, small turret, deckcargo etc.
I'm a fan of magnets, in case you coulnd't tell ;)
Soon more!
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Finally finished putting together my nr 1 catapult (and I have another one to go). Magnetised the cradle so it sits steady on the rail, and added a slightly raised magnet to create a light pull on the aircraft. Light to medium bumps to the table have no effect on it, only really slamming into it made it topple. But with the magnetised prop, it just comes off with no damage done.
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20WW2/Geheimproject%2051/catapultWIP.jpg)
And yes, my workspace is in a dreadful state, something I will remidy right about.......now :mrgreen:
Johan
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Aargh, will this chipping never end? (no, as I'm not done yet)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20Moderns/chippinggunboat2.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/wayswatcher/20mm%20Moderns/chippinggunboat1.jpg)
More chipping, then rust......not too much rust though ;)
Johan
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Wow, you've been busy lately.....
I like the little french tank. But then again, I've alway had a little bit of a soft spot for that quirky french design-mindset. As far as tanks goes, at least. :wink:
The boat is shaping up nicely, can't wait to see the finished item!
Bye, Erik
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Love all the items in this thread. Did this project continue in another thread? I tried your blog but it's only from 2012.
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The Me-108 got its own topic with Crimson Skies (1938 Texas) and the water tower is still in my to finish pile. The rest of the stuff either broke or got lost during the last 2 housemoves and I'm no longer into pulp in 20mm as no one games that and I have very little time for the hobby anyway.
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What did you use for the patrol boat? Who made it?
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A toy I picked up at Poundland/Eurodiscount shop.
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That's...a lot of purple worms.
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This looks very promising! You're planning to run that game somewhere in a Dutch vicinity, by any chance?
;)
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Pijl, see 5 replies up. Practically all of it is gone or broken or sold. Apart from the occasional 28mm pulp figure to paint for fun, I just focus on 20mm and 6mm WW2 now.
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Sorry. Our country is just too small to have enough likeminded individuals I think, twas hard enough to find more then a handful of WW2 wargamers in 20mm. I've never met one who was into pulp or VBCW. Well, until now that is.
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Actually I play anything in 20mm as long as it is slightly possible: Colonial, VSF, pulp, WW1, AWI and SciFi so far.
I tend to simply paint both sides. Hardly anyone plays 20mm that I know off, in whatever period. You get to own more stuff that way! lol