The Model Box

WIP Tamiya 1:35 Jagdtiger with DML figure. Still a lot of work on both before I call this finished.

I dug up my WIP of Dragon Model's 1:35 Delta Force (Somalia 1993) and prepped them again for painting. I'm hoping to do a better paint job this time around and not surrender to lethargy:) DML's kit features four US soldiers as they would have appeared in operations during the Battle of Mogadishu '93 during the events chronicled in Mark Bowden's "Blackhawk Down: A Story of Modern War" and Ridley Scott's film of the same name. Here's a helpful review of this 1994 kit by Peter Ong at TRACK-LINK.  As an aside, the reviewer notes that the M24 sniper rifle shown in the box art and supplied with one of the figures was probably not used during the said events. Instead, the figure would have been more probably armed with an M14 or a shotgun instead. In addition, there is also doubt on the use of  the H&K MP5SD3 in Somalia. Since I have four more boxes of the same kit in storage, I may use some of the weapons there ...

        This is my first attempt at painting a large-scale figure. I like the way the Denison smock came out but the messy inking on the flesh parts bother me. Maybe I'll repaint those next time I break out the paints. This is the first time I tried painting a figure larger than 54mm. I got this model along with 3 other models from Dragon's plastic figures line. Painted with oils, acrylics and inks. The 1st Airborne Division was a military formation that was raised and fought during World War II. It suffered terrible casualties throughout the operations it undertook, especially during the Battle of Arnhem, the operation which made the division famous for its defence of Arnhem Bridge. The division was the first to use the maroon beret, now an internationally recognised symbol of elite airborne forces.  The distinctive maroon beret of the Parachute Regiment was first worn by the men of the Regiment when it went into action in North Africa in ...