{"id":8534,"date":"2024-02-04T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2024-02-04T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T11:37:04","slug":"a-painting-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=8534","title":{"rendered":"A Painting Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a very successful painting party today to prepare models and figures for the Rocco D-Day diorama. The crew included John Drye, Mark Franke, John Kephart, Tom Karsten and myself.<\/p>\n\n

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JD and Tom worked on the \u201cboat people\u201d aka soldiers. \u00a0They finished all of them- about 150 total figures including a few I did. \u00a0We filled up one boat with 32 infantry and 3 crew. We think it looks pretty good. \u00a0The plan is to proceed with 4 more boats full of \u201dboat people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

John K. worked on the US infantry on land. He will have about 50 done in a week. Some of those are casualty figures. We expect we will need 300. Mark Fastoso and his crew will also be contributing figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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Mark Franke painted the 2 DWF Shermans, and several boat hulls. \u00a0They are not finished but are looking good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I finished painting all the boat hulls after Mark left. JD stuck around to about 10PM finish all the boat people. Devotion above and beyond!<\/p>\n

I also primed 75 hedgehogs with rust color. We probably only need about half of them for this scene. Still need the other obstacles.<\/p>\n

Down in Florida, Rob is painting the Sherman DD. I’ll get it when I go down there in 11 days.<\/p>\n

I had previously trimmed out the diorama with a \u00bc inch hardboard trim. I also added bolts with tee nuts to make assembling the diorama easier.<\/p>\n

We made a lot of progress today. Scenery and structures on tap for next week. There are lots of details and additional items to add.<\/p>\n

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We also started planning for the next diorama which feature the 29th Infantry and Rangers at Vierville.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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