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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;">This 'Schneemann' (snowman) was one of a pair that adorned the tower of U-boat 201 along with the</span><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;"> crest of the German town of Remscheid.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;">U-boat 201 became famous while under the command of Kptlt. A</span><span style="line-height: 20.46875px;">dalbert Schnee, who also </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">commanded the </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat" style="background-image: none; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="U-boat"><span style="color: black;">U-boats</span></a><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> U-6, </span><span style="background-image: none; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">U-60,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-121_(1940)" style="background-image: none; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="German submarine U-121 (1940)"><span style="color: black;">U-121</span></a><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-2511" style="background-image: none; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="German submarine U-2511"><span style="color: black;">U-2511</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">, sinking twenty-one merchant ships on twelve patrols</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.46875px;">. His last name, Schnee, means "snow" in German and thus the snowman was a natural choice of emblem for his vessel. Two versions of the snowmen were painted during U-201's service. When commander Schnee received his Knights Cross in August 1941, the Snowmen of course got one as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lieutenant Uffizi was eventually promoted to Captain of the First Independent Experimental Fireball Company, subsequently his personal snowman insignia, which he had first used during his deployment in Northern Europe with the 44th Armored Huntsman Regiment, became the emblem of the new unit with the addition of a crescent moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A picture of Wing Commander Ian Richard Gleed in his Spitfire decorated with a cartoon image of 'Figaro' the cat swatting a swastika and palm tree, Tunisia, 1943. Gleed</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was given the nickname 'Widge' – short for 'Wizard Midget', apparently due to his tendency to call things 'Wizard' (like people today describe things as 'Wicked'), and his short stature (he was 5 feet 6 inches / 1.65m). He mentions his RAF nickname in his part-fiction, part-autobiographical book but claimed not to know how he got it (although that may be irony as his commanding officer calls him 'Widget' on the same page).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ian
Gleed adopted Figaro as his mascot for his brand new Hawker Hurricane, P2798,
which he was issued on his arrival at 87 Squadron in France in May that year
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had used it before going to France).Figaro shattering a swastika with his paw
became<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the then Flight Lieutenant
Gleed's unofficial coat of arms. Wing Commander Gleed used the Figaro badge on
all his personal aircraft up to and including the day he died. He saved the
original doors decorated with his Figaro emblem from two of his Hurricanes,
P2798 and Z3779. A fragment of the Spitfire in which he died, AB502, containing
the Figaro, was recovered from the crash site by a childhood friend who was
also serving in North Africa at the time. All three were kept by Wing Commander
Gleed's family until they donated them to the RAF Museum in 1971.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Figaro was a cartoon cat that first appeared in Walt
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A tribute to Gleed's Figaro appeared on the decal sheet that came with the </span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Ma.K.Combat Scheme Card File from SF3D To Ma.K. #2, only this time he's sporting an Excimer laser.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detail washes and flat coat applied. The very first layers of 'dust' have been added using a thin layer of enamel paints heavily diluted with white spirits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the basic paint work and decals are done now ... next I'll be moving on to detail washes and some heavy weathering to tie the disparate colour scheme together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second 'base coat' is meant to represent a primer and is a reference to Kow's original Archelon build. </span><br />
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<br />Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-80668246017819480852013-04-30T05:29:00.001-07:002013-04-30T05:47:53.433-07:00Big Red - 1/20 Wave Archelon<br />
<span style="line-height: 16.890625px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next Archelon ready to paint. Inspired to push this a little further than I had intended by Paul E C Keefe Jr. 's excellent Gustav internal mechanics on FB. First time playing with Aves epoxy putty ... much nicer than Milliput.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to add a tarp/blanket to this suit. Maybe the pilot is trying to keep his engine warm or maybe he's trying to soak up melted snow from the exhaust - actually I've always liked the look of stowage on scale armour kits and just wanted to add a little more olive to the colour palette. The blanket is foil from a coffee can burnished to the contours of the suit.</span><br />
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<br />Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-49910709152165467202013-04-29T08:36:00.001-07:002013-04-29T08:36:35.842-07:00Cold Finger - Final Groundwork and Weathering<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To tie the suit to the groundwork I added some final weathering effects such as additional snow and mud and also finished off the power cables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost finished the groundwork for this project. The tree trunk was sculpted from fimo while the roots are actual fine twigs from a paper bark tree blended in with putty. The snow was a bit of an experiment, a new recipe - talcum powder and matte gel medium for a dry winter look. The leaves are real leaves that I picked from a dead herb bush in a caffe. Included is a photo I used for reference.</span><br />
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Added detail washes and some olive filters ...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decided to finish off this old build that I started in 2008. The base model, a Wave A.F.S Polar Bear, has been modified to include some of the subtleties of the original resin Love Love Garden garage kit ... such as remodelling the breastplate and removing details from the arms and legs. The right arm and manipulator are almost entirely scratch built ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Groundwork was mapped out with styrene tube, tin mesh, bits of sprue and 'valves' from a Morser Karl kit.</span><br />
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To celebrate the release of Kow Yokoyama's new Archelon model kit produced by Wave Japan, I decided to finish the resin Modelkastn Archelon kit that I started in 2010 ...<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I'll be treating the suit as if it were the vertical fuselage of a german plane ... the rear will be RLM 76, the front will be a soft edge 74/75 pattern. There may be a little mottling along the sides to blend it all together. May also go for RLM 21 ID bands ... but not sure yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Needed a break from working on a Nitto Krote (longest build of my model making life - and still a ways to go ) ... so I built this Gustav in just over a day because I really wanted to paint something. Built largely stock for speed (swapped out the arm joints for solder and putty, sculpted over the kit's leg joints, replaced the laser barrel with a Wave option part, fixed the crappy Nitto hand, added some weld beads and modified the hips so I can pull the legs out to paint separately), the interior and seat were painted prior to construction. The idea is for this suit to represent a regular ground slogger ... an SDR Grunt, so I'm going with a fairly 'low key' marking combination over a RLM 74/75/76 camo scheme.</span><br />
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Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-7059989681711164292011-07-29T22:25:00.000-07:002013-04-30T04:58:21.679-07:00Balls Out - Base 2<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I base coated the display with silver automotive spray then stippled on some masking fluid ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then I sprayed on some white primer. When the primer had dried I scrubbed off the masking fluid with a toothbrush ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To soften the contrast I'm slowly starting to work some off-white filters into the base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The look I'm going for is inspired somewhat by the interiors of the Nostromo </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-12158681202428056212011-07-25T02:46:00.001-07:002013-04-30T04:34:53.960-07:00Balls Out - Base 1<span style="font-family: arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">I cut up this Tamiya Merkava hull into as many small, flat planes as possible ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">... then rearranged them to create a base for my Superball build </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Base with Superball and pilot figure ... </span><br />
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<br />Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-84191448918382589012011-07-20T15:56:00.000-07:002013-04-30T04:48:31.408-07:00Desert Poacher - Groundwork and Decals<span style="font-family: arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">Basic paint work is done, and groundwork has been completed. Groundwork is just dirt, rocks and matte gel medium. I don't like painting groundwork so over the years I've collected bags of different colored dirt to mix with gel medium to create a variety of environments - for this desert scene I used dusty shale from under a rail bridge. The grass is a product from Germany called 'miniNatur' ... it comes in a range of different colors and scales - these are 2mm autumn tufts (I gave them a bath in Tamiya flat earth then dusted them with the same fine dust I used on the base).<br />Decals were cut, line by line, from the Wave AFS decal sheet ... the unit marking was featured in the Hobby Japan special edition as the insignia of the 102nd independent armored hunting regiment.</span><br />
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Skinnybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075672564821918658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705600004681384941.post-35900266372624045652011-07-20T06:35:00.001-07:002013-04-30T04:51:20.125-07:00Desert Poacher - Construction<span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">'Desert Poacher' was the SDR nickname given to the merc sandstalkers because they were often used to conduct SAS style raids and sneak attacks. This Sdh.222 Sandstalker was built using a 1/76 Fujimi kit as a base with details either scratchbuilt or taken from a variety of 1/72 & 1/76 kits ...</span><br />
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