Terry finished his Tamiya Churchill with Tamiya and Mig Gen 3 acrylics and added a Miniart figure and Value Gear stowage to enhance it.

Napoleonic Diorama Work-in-Progress by David Blankenship

 I'm getting out of my comfort zone of building mainly World War Two armor and aircraft by jumping into an 18th century theme.  The figures are 54 mm Historex offerings which will (hopefully) end up in a diorama comprising around ten figures, five horses, and the 8-pounder artillery piece in the photo.  

Since the finished diorama will require considerable figure conversion (if you're familiar with Historex figures, you know they come in rather staid postures) and finishing with oils can be a time-consuming process, it may be a long-term undertaking.

Stuart M5A1 by Terry Mckeown

 Here's a nicely done AFV Club M5A1 Stuart that Terry finished with Tamiya and Mig Gen 3 acrylics.  He added Legend sandbags to the vehicle and placed it on a Tiger Models base which he painted with craft acrylics.

M5A1 Stuart by Chan Jackson

 An older Tamiya release of the M5A1 nicely finished by Chan. He painted the vehicle with Tamiya and AK paints and weathered it with AK and MIG pigments and Abteilung 502 weathering oils.

The figures are from the recently released (and beautifully molded) Tamiya "U.S. Infantry Scout" set.

The building is a Scale 75 remnant.

Japanese Type 1 Ho-Ni I by Chan Jackson

 The Type 1 Ho-Ni I was produced in limited numbers and saw action in the Philippines and Okinawa. Chan used Tamiya acrylics and a variety pigments and enamel and oil washes on this older Tamiya release of the 1:35 scale Ho-Ni 1.

Chan built this vignette several years ago and doesn't recall the makers of the figures...possibly Stalingrad but does know he painted them with Vallejo paints. All-in-all, a simple project and fun build.

Panzer 1A (DAK) by Stew Langenbeck

This build combines the Tristar Panzer 1A Early with ModelKasten tracks and Tristar's Early/Late boxing that contained an interior. Neither kit had turret weld seams or vision port detail so pieces from a Dragon kit were used to fill those gaps.  Stew was sorry he didn't begin with the Dragon kit from the beginning since he couldn't deal with the ModelKasten tracks and the rubber band tracks in the Dragon kit would have sufficed. 

Voyager and the Tristar kit photoetch parts were used.

A generic desert camo color was mixed and roughly hand painted over Tamiya German Grey followed by filters, pin washes, and sand and dust weathering...and Stew thinks he'll never again be sorry to see rubber band tracks after dealing with the tiny Modelkasten independent link tracks.

Sd.Kfz. 251/8 Ausf.A Krankenpanzerwagen by Dave Blankenship

 Another completion in the German ambulance collection I'm putting together: the ICM Sd.Kfz. 251/8 in Afrika Korps markings.  I have built several ICM armor and soft skin vehicles and found this one typical in being highly detailed (if a bit over-engineered in areas) and generally (more on that later) an enjoyable build if you take your time in the construction.   

The vehicle was painted with Tamiya XF-92 Yellow Brown (DAK 1941.)   Weathering consisted of a sprayed-on filter of burnt umber oil paint, a pin wash of a heavier mixture of the same paint, chipping with Tamiya German Gray, and light dustings of Tamiya Buff.  

The Bedouin figure and camel are from the Masterbox "Commonwealth AFV Crew" set and were painted with Vallejo and Model Color acrylics.  I didn't put much time into painting the saddlecloth (which can be highly ornate) so may redo it someday

 Probably the fiddliest part of the whole build was installing the upper stretcher you can see in the above photo. To say it was frustrating is an understatement. After fiddling with it for an hour I almost said the heck with it (my language was a bit more colorful than that.) Instead, I set it aside for the night and tried again the next day and successfully pulled it off after coming close to giving up again. As an aside, when I did research prior to the build, I found one build review online. After I flailed around with the "stretcher", I went back to the article and noticed that the author hadn't installed the top bunk. I suppose his level of masochism didn't match mine. 

The kit didn't contain a canvas cover, but the vehicle screamed for one, so I resigned myself to fashioning one from epoxy putty. I was getting the Apoxie Sculpt out of the drawer when one of those eureka moments occurred. I thought to look through the pile of a dozen Sd.Kfz.251's in the stash and found one in a Dragon kit...and it fit the ICM kit perfectly! 

The German figure is a simple conversion I did years ago but don't remember the source of the parts other than the head which is a resin Warriors piece.

So, that makes eight WWII German ambulances finished, one work-in-progress, two more in the stash, and two conversions to finish someday. And, to add insult to injury, I recently learned that ICM is releasing another ambulance kit I won't be able to resist buying.