20mm Pulp; adding stuff on a contineous base - 30/4 update

[Gunbird]

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.



And seperated per type:










And my little special this week. You'll see what it goes with in 1-2 months time, but it is big.


Johan

[Westfalia Chris]

Whoa! An FW-190 floatplane! Neat-o!

[Grimm]

Man you realy have nice Ideas !!!

[Gunbird]

If these work well for me they should do wonders for you 28mm lot, right?

Johan

[Gunbird]

Added some paint, but not nearly enough......



Johan

[Gunbird]

I liked these so much I ordered up a few, cause they work for me too.....



<gulp.....>



Talk about opening a can of worms......might even order up another batch and cut them up so to make them freshly emerged.

Johan

[Gunbird]

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)

[PeteMurray]

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.

[Gunbird]

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).....



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

[Gunbird]

A bit cleaned up, and now with tail



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:

(as she will be a pre war bird, more skin to Indiana's Adventures)

But I want to replace the Swastika with these:

(found this pic in a blog about this years Salute)
More acceptable for the crowd yet still instantly recognisable....yes?

Johan

[Westfalia Chris]

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?

[PeteMurray]

Love the parasite fighter! You did a great job cleaning up the panel lines for the join.

[Plynkes]

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.)

[Westfalia Chris]

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.

[Johan]

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.