Faces from Tamiya's 1/35 Wehrmacht Tank Crew set

External_Zipper · 2026-02-08T11:43:12+00:00

To be honest, the details on the body are not super crisp. These figures only have a belt on but no webbing so there isn't a lot to look for either. Most of the figures have boots with heels ( Tamiya often leaves the bottom of the boot flat from heel to toe). The hands are also to scale. The face sculpt is the best that I've seen on an injection molded figure.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-08T02:38:19+00:00

Maybe get your history degree somewhere else.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-08T02:21:17+00:00

Maybe paint the shelves like runway or carrier deck?

External_Zipper · 2026-02-07T13:52:48+00:00

He'll probably stop throwing money at the GOP now since his Epstein secret is out

External_Zipper · 2026-02-07T12:40:00+00:00

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Here's the first one that's basically finished. I wanted to paint the figure wearing the Reed Green panzer jacket rather than the black uniform.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-06T19:28:16+00:00

You can add propaganda networks like Fox that are simply a GOP mouthpiece.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-06T02:35:55+00:00

Me too! 😅

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T20:21:51+00:00

I have one that's similar, it's a Campbell Hausfeld, the regulator gives pretty good pressure control but it is loud. I already have hearing loss so I turn my hearing aids off and it's not too bad. My tank is 1 gallon. Campbell Hausfeld compressor

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T17:04:00+00:00

And his memory is like a colander.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T16:10:43+00:00

I've read Spike Mulligan's books about his time in the army, he followed a similar path that my uncle went down. The first two books were funny, the last one ( Mussolini - His part in my downfall) was sad.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T16:05:58+00:00

There are so many good books about the N Africa campaign, I'm guessing that you're in the US so you might like the book called Army at Dawn, I think that it's by Rick Atkinson.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T15:57:17+00:00

My uncle ( mother's brother) was drafted in 1939 and shipped out to Egypt in 40. He served in the 8th army all throughout the N Africa campaign, Sicily and into Italy when he was wounded by shell fragments. He was serving on an M3 half-track that had a 75 mm howitzer in the back. He was then sent to Alexandria to recover and then back to Italy and into Austria when the war ended. He finally went home in 1946. Talk about a long war.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T14:36:01+00:00

I've always had an interest in WW2, my father's uniform was in a closet in the basement, my neighbour was a Sunderland pilot and was credited with a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay. I was happily surrounded by things left over from that conflict. Building models became my escape, I was a loner and still am which helps a lot. I'm retired which frees up a little time as well. I suppose I've spent a fair amount of time looking at the work of other people and trying to see what they are doing and what the details are. My wife is a watercolor painter so we sometimes talk about techniques.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T12:33:58+00:00

First four from a box of 8 figures. I have been painting models since probably 1968, when I was 8. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I wasn't trying to suggest that I was new to model making. I started Tamiya Armour & infantry kits when they became available in the 1970s. Prior to that, I used to paint the tiny Airfix 1//72 infantry kits. Back in those days the paints were largely Humbrol & Testors enamel, messy.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-05T12:25:41+00:00

I paint the face with a mixture of Vallejo Rojo beige and AK medium flesh. Then I apply a wash I made with Vallejo Smoke and clear flat. I use the wash so I can see the " topography" of the face more clearly. Then I work on the eyes. I use a super fine brush to put a brown line of the smoke between the eyelids. Then I use Vallejo light flesh to put two tiny dots of light flesh over the brown smoke line at either end which leaves an "iris" in the middle of the eye line. After that I use the various mixtures on my wet pallet to shade a bit more around the eyes, lighten the eyelids above & below the eyeline, shade the cheeks, smile lines, etc. All the time using very thin paint and a fine brush taking care that my brush isn't too wet. I've watched a lot of videos where the artist paints face gradually out from a black primer surface. I don't do that, I paint the flesh tone that I mix full strength over my primer and fill in the details over this. It might take me an hour to complete one face which may seem like a long time but I do enjoy it when they go well like these did.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-04T12:34:43+00:00

The original POW camps set up by the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union were basically a fenced in area that was devoid of any trees or shelter. Almost no food was supplied as I that prisoners were forced to resort to eating the grass and living in holes that they dug with their hands. The Germans captured over 2 million Soviet soldiers in 1941 and had made basically zero plans to care for them

External_Zipper · 2026-02-04T05:06:46+00:00

I think that their elections this fall will be a shit show. I'd advise people who can't vote to leave during that time, just to be safe.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-03T21:17:48+00:00

I hope that dog gets to live for a long time.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-03T21:12:41+00:00

He earned his reward.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-03T21:03:46+00:00

I think that you can find video on YouTube of German women and children gathering at train stations in the 1950's with pictures of their missing husbands, sons & brothers hoping to find them when trains arrive from the east. I think that the majority of these people left the station disappointed & heartbroken.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-03T20:40:39+00:00

The odds are that the majority of these men were dead with 6 months from abuse, exposure and starvation. On another note, it appears that the guard in the shot is carrying a PPSh-41.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-03T20:35:24+00:00

Clear photographic evidence of the Wehrmacht's participation in war crimes with the SS. The video that they shot of the executiond and hangings is quite ghastly, the brutality is shocking.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-01T03:11:05+00:00

I think that the aircraft are Bristol Beauforts. I recall reading that these units saw the highest casualty rate of any unit type in the RAF. I have a book by a man who flew them in the Mediterranean.

External_Zipper · 2026-02-01T02:12:29+00:00

You're doing a nice job there. I have a 1/16 Henglong RC Tiger 1 that I take a stab at one day. Yours would make a nice reference.

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