The Model Box

Les Blue! Les Blue! Slapping on the blue overcoats or "Capote"

Vintage Aoshima 4 figure kit set.

a small diorama I made using the Matchbox diecast Sherman and some HO American infantry. Scales have been fudged around a bit but no soldier was hurt in making the diorama.

Here's a painting guide from the Hat Industries site: Painting guide - By Ted Schulz; All colors are Testors unless otherwise stated. BODY coat, collar -- sea blue 1172 pants -- dark earth 2054 coat front, belt, straps, gloves, cuffs – white OFFICER (epaulettes, tassle, hat top), buttons, belt buckle, strap buckle, scabbard, sword handle -- gold hat, boots, collar center, pouch -- black epaulettes & tassle -- mixed orange hair, gun -- brown ital. dark 2111 gun barrel -- gun metal 1795 face -- flesh chin strap, hat right side tassle, pouch emblem--gold plume, coat trim, hat top -- red 1150 sword – steel HORSE--black blanket & roll -- sea blue 1172 blanket & roll trim -- mixed orange roll top -- red 1150 & white saddle -- leather 1736 straps -- black bit -- steel buttons -- brass base -- green 2029 And here are some reference art work:

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

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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 ...