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Yep, Catachans..the only army I'll ever sort of finish.

I can't decide if I should paint the undersides a lighter color or leave it camo?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
whoa.... good news on the lego front it seems... reminds me strongly of the deathstar build... and the lone ranger sets... that train does look awesome...!

your camo looks stunning... i love that tiger stripes camo!

how come so much is happening here on dakka when i choose to go to bed early??? *mumblegrumble....*

I think it has to do with me following your posts and trying o keep up. Your pretty spry for an old timer, what's your trick Pilates?

Hey I missed the memo that you were doing 40k centric things again. I'll just start from page 50 and assuming nothing happened before then.

Dave, if you go WW-II, sky or eggshell blue belly works for day flights, black for the night. Modern age, well, camo all over works too.

And no, killing stuff in the wastelands never gets truly old, especially wearing power armor and using good firepower, and killing deformed mutants and supermutants(Orks, they are so Orky!) shouting "FOR THE EMPRAH!" in my head as I kill them all.

Haha Theo- Vik is only a couple of years older than me, which is why I always call him an Old fart

@Whale- I was my mistake to ever mislead you into thinking there was such a thing as On Topic around here. I am a hobby nomad

@Shas- I'd like to keep the Catachans as "Nam-centric as possible. The adrenaline rush I get from wiping out Paradise Falls never ever ever gets old

Well, I guess I'm the old dog then, because I got you by 4, or at least that's what you profile says. 1974 was a good year, or a least the second half . I take back all my age jokes, of course I could be getting senile and could till make the cracks.

Fair enough. I hung for the first few pages, but couldn't get into the lotr, and at the time, you were getting away from 40k/Munda.

Stein that vendetta looks great! Glad to see some catachan love!!

Wow dave I'm really lovng the looks of your halftrack!

 dsteingass wrote:
Yep, Catachans..the only army I'll ever sort of finish.

I can't decide if I should paint the undersides a lighter color or leave it camo?

I would leave it camo myself its 40k after all

whalemusic360 wrote:Fair enough. I hung for the first few pages, but couldn't get into the lotr, and at the time, you were getting away from 40k/Munda.

Not getting away, just wandering off or awhile I can understand, when people switch to Marines I fizzle out myself, not that I hate them, I'm just extremely bored with them.

bebopdrums2424 wrote:Stein that vendetta looks great! Glad to see some catachan love!!

Thanks Bebop!

Rogue Wolves wrote:Wow dave I'm really lovng the looks of your halftrack!

Thanks RW, I wish I felt the same about it. Perhaps I'll get back to it one day.

lone dirty dog wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Yep, Catachans..the only army I'll ever sort of finish.

I can't decide if I should paint the undersides a lighter color or leave it camo?

I would leave it camo myself its 40k after all

I Think you're right, as a gunship meant for strafing the enemy into chunks, I don't see the need to camouflage it for sky on the belly. It's meant to be terrifying..for your last moments.

I think a consistent scheme all over is better than having the belly of the craft different. The color scheme is excellent, looking forward to what you with the canopy and the guns.

Good! it is agreed then! The canopy frame will just be OD, but I need to paint some panels and bitz in flat yellow..just because I think flat yellow looks great against OD green. The guns, I'm not sure, I've seen miniguns on UH-1Cs in a grey that looks good, but not sure yet. I seemed to have misplaced the pilots and ammo belts, need to dig those up. I'm sure I put them somewhere with the intention of "not losing them" LOL

You didn't lose them, they are out on assignment whatever color you go with it needs Lots of smoke stains from the guns gentle usage .

Seems America painted a whitish underbelly for most aircraft back then




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However, Helicopters, which the Vulture and Valkyrie resemble more than normal fixed wing aircraft, were painted all green or camo all over so the Vulture getting a camo belly is on target Dave






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But the lightnings/Thunderbolts/Marauders would be most likely to have a pale underbelly

dsteingass wrote:Thanks Vik!- See what old people miss
@Didde- Thanks! and yes..yes it will

harharhar...

Theophony wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
whoa.... good news on the lego front it seems... reminds me strongly of the deathstar build... and the lone ranger sets... that train does look awesome...!

your camo looks stunning... i love that tiger stripes camo!

how come so much is happening here on dakka when i choose to go to bed early??? *mumblegrumble....*

I think it has to do with me following your posts and trying o keep up. Your pretty spry for an old timer, what's your trick Pilates?

well would you believe it... i had to try yoga during school hours... the worst backache i had for month... and my neck/head ached too... rubish... i drink coke and eat chocolate and jellybabies and meat() that keeps me healthy^^...


and dave... loved that bob ross trubute song!... i am a great fan of the man too... whenever he is on telly i watch him reverently...even brought my wife to like him too!... happy lil clouds and happy lil trees! what a most needed view for the world!

Yeah, but not on gunships from my research..

Not much exciting to show yet, just painting the boring, hard to see bitz

hmmm.... gatling love!

I did mention helicopters did not need the pale under belly. Ah, the weapons that need the boltgun metal base.

Yeah, but is it a helicopter, gunship, or plane?

My last remaining pot of Boltgun metal is too rare, this is leadbelcher over black followed by Didi's magic black ink.

I would class it as a helicopter for the reason being it looks more like a quick drop in craft rather than a jet so to speak, thats why I think the camo pattern all over as it would be dropping in on jungle growth all the time.

That model always make me think of a Harrier.
Often they were just one colour all over and when they did do camo' they did it all over.

I believe that grey and green pattern is "Falklands Camo" eh?

Dave will you be doing any nose art on the vulture? Maybe Rosie the riveter?

I dunno, it has room I suppose, I haven't decided on any markings yet.

Loving the Valk dsteingass!!!!

Thanks Hazz!

I found the AWOL pilots! -For some reason I thought they were resin, but it turned out they were the plastic ones, from the Valk kit, still on the sprue

If you don't do nose art you could at least name the pilots or call signs. I think juju beans would b an excellent copilot for capt. Steigass.

I'm apprehensive about nose art...

In other news, more proof the Swiss are Jerks

Haha, you trying to bring down the site again Dave? It did remind me how often gung ho would go on arctic missions in just his vest though.