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Ground Forces / 1/72 MAUS (Dragon)
« on: December 19, 2010, 11:26:38 AM »
This is a special project; a "paper panzer" I've built for a What-if GB on a French forum.
The Maus was really used by the Germans at the end of the war, but extremely briefly...
For the what-if group, I decided that A.H. was killed and that the Germans rejoined the Allies against USSR. That explains the crosses are not the ones of German during WWII...




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Ground Forces / 1/72 Stryker (Trumpeter)
« on: December 19, 2010, 11:23:40 AM »
It's a M1126 Stryker. The work was very fun. No upgrade, it's an out of the box with only antennas added...




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Ground Forces / 1/72 Luchs (Revell)
« on: December 19, 2010, 11:22:05 AM »
The Luchs is a recce vehicle, so a vehicle that I like  :))
I used some photoetch for this one.


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Ground Forces / Belgian T15 at 1/72 scale
« on: December 18, 2010, 10:10:22 PM »
Once again, a Belgian AFV...

The T15 was a teeny tank, armed with a machinegun that served during WWII and the 18 days campaign of the Belgian army.

Retrotracks made a little 1/72 kit of that beautiful tankette.

I ameliorated some elements, and wished to represent that tank during manoeuvres in 1939. To add a little bit of fun, I've thinked about an animal blocking the tank - But which animal? A cow? a horse? Some ducks walking on the road?
A friend of mine suggested... a goose, and better a furious one! Great idea, and I found a goose in a German shop for HO railway.

Presenting my diorama on some forums, an English suggested me to name it: "Anti-Tank Goose", or ATG (abbreviation for Anti-Tank Gun)



I won with my goose (it seems that people don't see the tank but the goose only!!!) I won IPMS-Belgium Challenge in 2007.

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Ground Forces / The littlest diorama I've ever made!!!
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:56:44 PM »
Ah, it's a long history...

Once upon a time... Euh sorry... Once a day, my mother came at home and gived me a little marble socle, saying that it will surely make an excellent base for one of my kits.
So kind...
...But that base was one for a stone egg!!! You can imagine how BIG it can be...
How to put a normal, decent, average kit on such a teeny place???

Hey, that's the kind of situations I like: to put a kit on that base? Surely not...
...But to realise a full diorama, what a challenge!!!

Yes I made it.

Some years ago, I was a wargame player, and I remembered me that There was still existing somewhere in the house, some AFV's at 1/300 scale: yes, 1/300 scale!!!
I found the box containing my wargame elements and, amongst them, there was some CRVT's. But also some infantrymen and crewmen...
I made my military duty on CVRT's (Scorpion, Scimitar, but also Spartan during my -uncompleted- formation as student officer). So I imagined a manoeuvre scene, including a Scorpion, a Spartan and some crewmembers.





I represented myself on the diorama... Egocentrism...



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Miscellaneous Subjects / DA VINCI's TURTLE
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:33:57 PM »
This one is a special one!!!

The Genius had a lot of projects, amongst them a war machine manpowered with guns: really a proto-tank.
Dominique Jadoul from Retrotracks falled in love for that engine and decided to make a kit of that.
When I saw the box on his stand during an expo... I think it take me no more than 30 seconds to have bought that splendor.

The build was easy, there are a few pieces; but it was for me an excellent test to obtain a wood effect with oil paints on an acrylic base...










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Ground Forces / Belgian T13, bycicles, and Chasseurs Ardennais
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:24:29 PM »
This little diorama represent an accident: A Belgian Chasseur Ardennais let his bycicle on the way... And a T13 came!!! So you see the scene: the bycicle is... well, out of service; the tankcrew and two Chasseurs Ardennais are examinating the situation, and the adjutant is "gently" explaining to the owner of the bycicle that he will "probably" have some punishment...

The diorama is at 1/72 scale; the T13 is from Solfig; the bycicles and the Chasseurs Ardennais from Retrotracks.
The tree is a toothpick with miliput, with "zeeschuim".
I'm proud to say that it was the object of an article for both PANORAMA (IPMS-Austria) and KIT (IPMS-Blegium)




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Ground Forces / The WWI Belgian SAVA
« on: December 18, 2010, 08:47:29 PM »
The SAVA (Société Anversoise de Véhicules Automobiles) was an automitrailleuse build near Antwerp. It was a good little vehicle, used by th Belgians during all the WWI. Anecdotic to say that a vehicle crossed accidentally the Dutch frontier, was interned, used by the Dutch army but sent back to Belgium after the war...

The kit I'm presenting here is at 1/72 scale and from Retrotracks (http://www.retrokit.net/). It's a teeny one, but a little jewel...
I've built that kit in 8 days only, during my holidays. There was some PE parts, for the wheels and the belt for the reserve wheels...





















With that kit I won in 2009 the IPMS-Belgium Challenge...
Hope you like it!

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Aircraft Modeling / Albatros D.III Oeffag Ba 253 (Roden 1/72)
« on: November 10, 2010, 06:19:54 PM »
Hi friends,

Here is a photo of my Alabtros D.III Oeffag from Roden. I built this kit in 2005 and won several prices with her - The most important being "Best of show" at Charleroi (Belgium), 2006.


Plywood fuselage made with Vallejo Wood + aequous pencil; SWORL and Polish checkers are from Blue Rider. I've also used the photoetc from PART.

Hope you like it...

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Aircraft Modeling / Belgian Fokker E.V
« on: October 31, 2010, 05:47:27 PM »
Just after having finished my D.VII, I've built this one: th eprobably only one Fokker E.V that beared Belgian colors!

It seems that that aircraft was found at Evere after the Armistice, and taken as personal aircraft by Lieutenant Van Cotthem. He first flew with a lozenge fuselage but after 1920 was repainted khaki and received the number "17" during the meeting of Evere in 1921...









The kit is the Dragon at 1/48th scale; pilot is from PJ Production

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Aircraft Modeling / Belgian Fokker D.VII (10ème Escadrille)
« on: October 31, 2010, 11:55:52 AM »
Hello friends,

Another of my builds: a post-WWI Fokker D.VII of the Belgian 10ème Escadrille, circa 1919-1920.

After the War, the Armistice conditions stipulated that Germany had to deliver 100+ Fokkers D.VII to Belgium. But many of them were in bad condition and only 35 were reconditioned to be operationnaly used. The Fokkers served in Escadrilles, and finished their career at the Belgian aviation school.

The model I've build has some particularities:
- The fuselage was remade, with Dope linen
- The photo shows that some elements of other aircraft were possibly used
- The windshield comes from a Nieuport 23
- Armament was removed









I used Techmod lozenges. It's the old kit Dragon at 1/48th scale: pilot comes from PJ Production.

That kit has won many prices in different contests in Belgium...

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Aircraft Modeling / Future releases from a new producer: MustHave!
« on: October 24, 2010, 05:33:37 PM »
Greetings all,

Soon there will be a new producer on the marketplace: MustHave!
The man behind MustHave! is my French friend Philippe Jourdan (formerly Hi-Tech). He decided to start with a new production name because the new techniques that will be used differs totally from Hi-Tech. MustHave! will be at a level as good as Tamigawa!

The first kits produced will be in fact reboxing of some existing kits, but with ameliorations:

-The F-86K Sabre
http://users.skynet.be/bk320910/IMAGEF86KLight.pdf
This is the excellent Revell kit, but with a totally new fuselage for the "K" version.

It is to be noted that Philippe wish to include a Dutch deco in the box, but is lacking of informations. If a Dutch member of the forum can help with 3-view drawings (short wings aircraft, before retrocession to FIAT), any information will be welcome and you can contact me with a PM!

-The Curtiss H75A-7 Mohawk
http://users.skynet.be/bk320910/IMAGEMOHAWKIVLight.pdf

There will be also a Dutch decoration in the box, but also an English one:


...And other projects will follow soon after...

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Aircraft Modeling / Spad VII (Roden 1/32)
« on: October 24, 2010, 09:48:23 AM »
OK, now here is my actual "work-in-progress": the Spad VII from Roden.

I'm building that kit for a group build ("Avions de la Grande Guerre") on the French forum Maquette Garden.
maquettes de véhicules et figurines militaires et

I'm responsible of that Group Build.
Avions de la Grande Guerre
Like Maquette Garden is principally a forum for tanks, I'm trying to give to the participating members some anecdots, tips, etc on what concerns WWI aviation...

Well, enough said, here is my build:
















I will also use the photoetch of PART


And my documentation source will of course be the following:


I will build the aircraft of Sous-lieutenant Ciselet:

photo via Belgian Aviation History Association

Some putty needed


the photoetch parts are excellent, but I will not use some of them: so, here, the PE elements are not large enough


The engine. All the elements are not placed because the engine cover will be closed.

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Aircraft Modeling / Hawker Hurricane MK I (4 planes at 1/144th scale!)
« on: October 24, 2010, 09:27:46 AM »
Another aspect of my builds that I wish to show you: the teeny 1/144th planes!
I've bought two boxes of SWEET kits for the Hawker Hurricane MK I: first one with fabric wings, second one with metal wings.
Those little kits are real jewels.
the decal sheets give the possibility to build a lot of aircrafts. In the "fabric" box there was the possibility to build the Belgian "H-21" but unfortunately decals were not correct for what concern the color of the circle of the thistle (I have to redo that with a 10/0 paintbrush) and the size and type of the serial on the lower surfaces of the wings. I've chosen to replace the H-21 by the H-26 of Lieutenant Henrard. Lieutenant Henrard was the first Belgian pilot killed in action during WWII, more precisely during the phoney war when trying to intercept a Dornier.
For the second "fabric" I've chosen a Finnish.
The two other aircrafts (metal wings): a British one from the Battle of Britain, and a really special one: a second Belgian, but probably the only one with a tripale propeller!
That aircraft had a particular story: she was in fact a British one that landed in Belgium and was interned during the phoney war. With the agreement of His majesty the King of Britain, it was decided that the Belgians, having some Hurricanes, would buy that aircraft...
It's the reason why she was bearing for the undersurfaces the British camo...




























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