Recent content by JamesOLeary

Since there is about a month left before the Tulsa Figure Show and I have only two projects completed and the M577 in progress, I figured that I would try to knock out a quick vignette that I had been planning on making for a while. It depicts a Vietnamese civilian woman who was hired to be a...

I thought I had posted the latest photos of my progress but I guess I hadn't. Here is the M577 as she has been for the past week or so. I sculpted the tent roll, made and painted the long wooden box that the crew had made, and added two footlockers that were used as seats during movements.

Thank you. Normally I would have started the weathering process using oil washes, but I couldn't find my oil paints so it is all done with powdered pigments with chipping and scratches done with black and white acrylics mixed to look somewhat like aluminum.

After completing the tribute to SGT Russell Fant, I started working on this model again. I used DEF Models early road wheel set for the road wheels. I attached them today. I still need to weather them. Other things I have done: Removed masking tape from driver's compartment. Installed driver's...

Thanks. Hopefully I can get this completed before I get distracted by something else...oh, look, a squirrel!

Thanks, Guys. Sharon really likes it. Now I just need to figure out a way to get it to her without it getting damaged in transit.

Two nights ago I painted the trim vane. In mid 1967 all of the trim vanes in the Battalion were to have a Panther painted onto them as the battalion was known as the Panthers. There were several variations and poses allowed. All of the HQ tracks whether M577s or the Commander's and S3 M113s had...

I then mixed black and white paint to chip the edges of the vehicle and to create scratches on the sides. I then used pigments to weather the vehicle as if it were moving from one static position to the next site.

After priming the model with black spray paint, I used a regular brush to apply Reaper's Black Green which I have found to be the best match for me for the dark OD green used during that time period. I then applied dry transfer markings, painted yellow circles, and then applied dry transfer...

This model is going to depict track HQ11 from 2d Battalion 47th Infantry (Mechanized) 9th Infantry Division as she appeared in 1967 and 1968.

Several months ago, last July to be exact, I had started working on two M577s - one being made from the Tamiya kit and the other being a kit bash of AFV Club's M113A1 ACAV and the Tamiya M577 kit. The one this thread is about is the Tamiya M577. Some things that I have done to improve the kit...

This is a vignette that I made for a friend of mine, Sharon Bloszko Swift, who was the fiance of SGT Russell Fant of C Company, 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division who was Killed in Action on 3 February 1969 in Long An Province, Vietnam when his M113 hit a mine which...

Thanks, Duke. Hopefully I can knock out one or two more this year.

Thank you. This was a very enjoyable build.

Thank you. The cat is painted to look like one of my cats. The names are of real Soldiers but the serial numbers are made up. My friend Bill Rambow and Freddie Geremia arrived as replacements for C Company at the same time, so I thought they might get a kick out of seeing their names on the...