SteveKrieg
Company Commander
G'day all,
With Project 'Fallschirmjager' put on-hold (requiring more time that I just don't have at this time so will be a postponement 'til early next year). I've decided on a rapid-firing Plan-B under 'Showcase' to assist in celebrating our local model club's 50th Anniversary and I could think of no better way, from my part at least, than to put on display a scene or part thereof covering each of the past 8 1/6th showings I've placed on their ScaleACTs which first commenced in 2013 with my elongated display on the Afrika Korps.
This idea also allows some revisiting of my favourite scenes and to revamp somewhat with detailing experience garnered since my early days in the hobby. Fortunately, everything that I have done in the past is neatly stored away which makes re-assembling a breeze and I kicked it off recently by doing a new scene to represent my 2014 series on Operation 'Market-Garden' utilising a building ruin that I've used twice before to good effect and putting in several re-detailed British paras.
This is sort of a one-off as it is a scene I wish I could've done for the 2014 series had I the building ruin (and time was against me then in making one). Other favourites that I'll dust off and go over will be the three SAS Desert Raider jeeps that I based off a famous period photo (ScaleACT 2016 which was shared with my Tiger tank diorama), The American paras resting and refitting near a jeep and trailer (2019), One of the four Panzer IIB's I did for ScaleACT 2015 marching past a column of troops, a winter white-wash Sd.Kfz 250/1 that I did for a ScaleACT 2017 that I couldn't attend due to a deployment, an Australian trio of jungle fighters from my larger diorama of ScaleACT 2018 (which was paired with a Flak 38 Vierling diorama), a German sniper in the attic from the more recent ScaleACT 2021v2 (which was held-over to Feb this year).
To cover my inaugural ScaleACT in 2013, I'm putting out my favourites - Rommel's 'GRIEF' and an Sd.Kfz 250/3 (both TAOWAN) with the necessary figures.
I mentioned that by doing this allows me the opportunity to fix up and revamp and I did this today with the DML CHE 'Urquhart' figure which largely involved painting the boots as per a British officer and not a private (black to brown), a change in the Dennison smock which I always found, on the boxed figure, to be too faded and changing out the flocked beret to a cloth one.
Not too sure if any SAGgers out there tend to go over older stored-away builds (vehicles and figures) but I do recommend a revisit if you've the time. Not only does it rekindle a sense of nostalgia but it's also amazing what bits and pieces - long forgotten about - turn up.
Will post each scene as they are completed. Cheers and hope all is going well out there for everyone?, Steve
With Project 'Fallschirmjager' put on-hold (requiring more time that I just don't have at this time so will be a postponement 'til early next year). I've decided on a rapid-firing Plan-B under 'Showcase' to assist in celebrating our local model club's 50th Anniversary and I could think of no better way, from my part at least, than to put on display a scene or part thereof covering each of the past 8 1/6th showings I've placed on their ScaleACTs which first commenced in 2013 with my elongated display on the Afrika Korps.
This idea also allows some revisiting of my favourite scenes and to revamp somewhat with detailing experience garnered since my early days in the hobby. Fortunately, everything that I have done in the past is neatly stored away which makes re-assembling a breeze and I kicked it off recently by doing a new scene to represent my 2014 series on Operation 'Market-Garden' utilising a building ruin that I've used twice before to good effect and putting in several re-detailed British paras.
This is sort of a one-off as it is a scene I wish I could've done for the 2014 series had I the building ruin (and time was against me then in making one). Other favourites that I'll dust off and go over will be the three SAS Desert Raider jeeps that I based off a famous period photo (ScaleACT 2016 which was shared with my Tiger tank diorama), The American paras resting and refitting near a jeep and trailer (2019), One of the four Panzer IIB's I did for ScaleACT 2015 marching past a column of troops, a winter white-wash Sd.Kfz 250/1 that I did for a ScaleACT 2017 that I couldn't attend due to a deployment, an Australian trio of jungle fighters from my larger diorama of ScaleACT 2018 (which was paired with a Flak 38 Vierling diorama), a German sniper in the attic from the more recent ScaleACT 2021v2 (which was held-over to Feb this year).
To cover my inaugural ScaleACT in 2013, I'm putting out my favourites - Rommel's 'GRIEF' and an Sd.Kfz 250/3 (both TAOWAN) with the necessary figures.
I mentioned that by doing this allows me the opportunity to fix up and revamp and I did this today with the DML CHE 'Urquhart' figure which largely involved painting the boots as per a British officer and not a private (black to brown), a change in the Dennison smock which I always found, on the boxed figure, to be too faded and changing out the flocked beret to a cloth one.
Not too sure if any SAGgers out there tend to go over older stored-away builds (vehicles and figures) but I do recommend a revisit if you've the time. Not only does it rekindle a sense of nostalgia but it's also amazing what bits and pieces - long forgotten about - turn up.
Will post each scene as they are completed. Cheers and hope all is going well out there for everyone?, Steve
