Recent content by Steve Ski

There's Got to Be a Better Way! Progress report: Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but placing these leaves one at a time is getting old real fast, hours actually, for this small area alone. I know, gluten for punishment, but I haven't found anything else that would come close to the scale I...

Slow Going. Bunker time has been shortened a bit, but I'm still able to get a little time in daily. With Spring kicking in high gear that time will only get shorter, so I need to keep the momentum going without rushing the results. I've finished the roof system with the weather damage in the...

Building the Woodshed/Out-Building After serious consideration on how to lay out this scenario I've decided to build a woodshed/out-building. Since most of the barns in Normandy back in WWII were made mostly of stone with wood roofs and trusses, and I wanted to make an out-building, no stone...

R75 Almost Complete The R75 and sidecar are nearly completed. I just have a few more items to deal with such as toning down the rusty tail pipe, clean up some overzealous scratches and rust marks, splatter some euro dirt, and dust up a few locations up from the underside. All the gear has...

Sorry for the delayed reply, Gents, and thank you very much. You do great work, Pantherman, so ya ain't foolin me, HA!;)

Time for the Details When getting back into working this R75 I realized just how much I had to do to get it in shape for the finish. I had to redo the unit decals, because I never paid attention to which unit was portrayed in the kit set. I needed to mount the MG34 gun plus the ammo belt, add...

Tanks, Pantherman!

MG34 and Mount The MG34 that comes with this kit is rather crude compared to the MG34 that is produced by Reedees Miniatures. There really is no comparison. Before I had received Steve's kit, I had already drilled out the barrel and was having no fun with the kit gun mount, it was very weak...

Restart "Easy Pickins" 200mm Dio Resurrecting this older 200mm dio has been a long time in coming. I literally had to stop the build, because there was nowhere to put this huge base once it was finished, and that's not cool. It only took a few years, 10 plus to be honest, to get another cabinet...

Thank you, Pantherman! Now it's time for an Indy car, lol.;)

Point Du Hoc RM1602, US Rangers, Point Du Hoc, vignette from Reedees Miniatures in 1/16th scale. These resin figures and base were created and sculpted by Steve Reedees. This set can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/reedeesminiatures/figuresaccessories/116-120mm All three resin...

Finalizing the Figures Capt. Walt, SSgt. Bruce, and Cpl. Luke are just about ready to be mounted on the cliff. The figures have been completed minus some touch-ups on the brass and anything else that I might have missed. This has been a fun set to work with from start to finish. These figures...

Excellent! Man, that is a lot of "tiny" figures to paint, sheesh!

Trouser Work I'm now down to the closing portions of these figures, always working from top to bottom. The trousers will need to be much darker than the shirts while not getting too carried away with the highlights. I have blended the oils to create a dark Olive Drab tone to work over the...

Thank you, Sir.