Vintage Toy Military Models - Decoupages

[rockpaperscissor]

Your enhancements have really made that turret pop, Don. Nice job.

[cdavenport]

Don, have you added these to the download section? I sent a bunch of cars to an enthusiast who indicated he would add them also.

[Don Boose]

Kevin - I like your Eiffel Tower. I presume that on the next one you will cut out the spaces between the bracing wires? Just remembering that tiny Mk.IV panzer with the lug nuts on the road wheels that you once built.

Thanks for stopping by, Don, and for the kind comment. I am eager to see that salmon and chocolate dream wagon take shape.

Major D - I presume that you were talking to RPS Don and not to me, I have not produced anything that can be put in the download session, but, rather, am building models that you and Chris have improved (plucking fruit from other people's trees, so to speak).

No real work on the actual tank today. I was focused on daughter Lydia who has been making a brief visit. She started us off with home-made biscuits this morning, we had dinner at our favorite Korean restaurant (she grew up in Korea), and we just returned from the airport from where she flew back to Maine. I returned to phone calls from my on-line forum team leaders who had come up with many questions in my absence.

So the only work I did today was thinking and preparing for the next steps and putting together a spare hull and superstructure to see how it fits together.

Image one shows that the superstructure is missing one panel, which is confirmed by image 2 of the roughly assembled housing. Image 3 is a tacked together hull. In the background you can see reference material, including images of the actual Type 95 and a photo of Chris's tank so that I could see how the creature is supposed to look.

More tomorrow, I hope.

[Don Boose]

I have not had a chance to do any more work on the Japanese tank, but seeing the excellent little howitzer that B-Manic posted in his thread (http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/o...tage-toys.html), I realized that the very first thread I ever posted in this forum was actual a vintage decoupage. It was a little toy howitzer that I made for a military historian and Army War College colleague who was retiring. Kleine Haubitz

So I would like to repost these images as part of the vintage decoupages diologue.

Don

[cdavenport]

Wow! That is an itsy bitsy gun which makes it that much more difficult to produce such a nice result.