Shep Paine article

Very interesting!

Especially where the author says "......to build the 1/32nd scale plastic tanks (roughly a third the size of the real thing)". Big models!

Bob B

"railfan" wrote in news:1130897884.659607.99650 @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

That wasn't the only boo-boo. In describing some of his dios the author says "...a crew escaping a downed fighter plane during the Battle of Midway..."! A fighter you ignoramus?

During the late 80s and 90s I was involved in progun politics. I was then and still today am truly flabbergasted by how wrong so many of them get it as well as on anything military. I mean these people hold themselves up as the guardians of democracy, the elites, the "educated class". Yet by choice or prejudice or sheer ignorance simple basic facts and truths evade them.

It makes one wonder just how much of the news, at least from the "traditional media" has any basis in reality at all.

Like when being informed by some breathless nitwit that AR-15s are fully automatic, have no sights and are intended to be fired from the hip in a spray pattern. This is a near verbatim quote. I wonder which of these ignorant mutts interviewed Eugene Stoner (or even knew who he was) for that brilliant insight.

My conclusion is education, at least some kinds of it, make you very stupid.

Man he wasn't kidding on this part.

"I had a small collection of the vehicles that were actually in our company, and I discovered that if I put these things out on display in my room, inspecting officers would come over and look at them and never notice the dust bunnies under the bed," he said, laughing.

While I was in the 82nd, I got a 3 day pass because the SGM that was inspecting, walked in and seen the M1 that I was working on. He picked that up, and started pointing out what each component was to my CO and 1SG. As I found out, he used to be a tanker. He wasn't too fond of my answer when he asked how long it took to clean my room. I said 3 days, 1 to do the major cleaning. The 2nd day to make sure I didn't miss anything on the first day, and the third day to make sure I didn't miss anything during the first 2.

The ditched TBD dio came to mind when I read that but I couldn't recall if that was Shep's or from aVerlinden mag. Of course not only was the TBD not a fighter, it was just barely a bomber.

WmB

P.S. I think Verlinden featured a ditched TBF in one of its mags - hard to recall.

Ghosty:

You have to learn to tell the difference between educati>

Boy you should have seen what 5 years at R.I.T did to my older son !!! He has no grasp of world history, no real genuine kindness to others less fortunate, and zero tolerance to any that think differently...... (he did all 5 years on the deans list too)

He also wouldnt talk to me for almost 6 mo's after his brother joined the Army (11 Bravo, now in SBCT) He blamed me totally for it, and said that they shouldnt send smart people off to war !!! (WTF ????????) Finally had to explain to him that without soldiers airmen and sailors, he would NOT be able to do what he does for a living now !!!! STILL took me explaining to him that NO parent wants to send their child off to war, so I really dont want to hear it and BTW, he had better grow up fast ! (he's moving to San Francisco)

I now just call him a college puke...............

Funny, as smart as he is, when his car overheated, all it needed was the radiator clamp on one of the hoses tightened, and I NEVER let him forget it !!!! (.50c clamp got the better of him.......)

AM

The author was most likely referring to the famous vignette featuring a "ditched at sea" Monogram Devastator. Years ago, this actual vignette spent some time in the display case at a local Austin, TX hobby shop. (I figure it was, at that time, owned by a local collector).

The interesting thing about it, and about most of what Shep does/did for "publication"; is that the piece was built and painted with photography in mind. Things were far from "over detailed"; and the painting was highly exaggerated. This is in no way meant to be a criticism; but actually a compliment. It shows that Shep knows/knew how to present his creations in order to take full advantage of the medium through which they were to be presented; in this case photography.

Greg Heilers wrote in news:F%baf.5009$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

That one was always to me the most breathtaking and intimidating of his dios. I did a house like in the Brumbar or Stug kit -- which was it I wonder, the Stug was using a house as cover - or was that my idea - and the Brumbar was crashing through a wall. I did the house with banged up floorboards from tongue depressors, rafters from balsa and ice cream sticks. Edges all shattered. Made the walls of cardboard covered with spackle I think. Big honking hole with the Panzer IV parked in it. Even made a window frame to dangle around the barrel like they'd aimed it to protect the barrel. Had all kinds of debris strewn about and all over the Panzer. Had 4

0r 5 rubbery infantry types, prepainted, from where I can't remember. Had a sniper in the rafters, and others coming around the corner of the house.

Oh yeah and the burned out Panzer IV converted to a short 75/L24 - hatches all opened up and just trashed, with the Grant going by it. I remember painstakingly following his instructions on the figures for the Grant. Everyone was blown away with them. I even gave the guy sitting a beard. And the Stug, spray painted from the can, with the battle damaged panels in place rust in the holes and down from them. I made tarps, boxes.

That man probably had more influence on the hobby than anyone else. I still vividly remember that stuff. I've already got me a Wirbelwind and a Patton, I think I'm gonna go for all the German stuff again. BTW the Patton must be

1/35 because it has those godawful end-not-connectors and I pulled some spare 1/35 tracks out. The AFV Club ones look perfect, I wonder if the Shemans and Lee/Grants are 32 or 35, decent tracks could save them.

My favorite vignette of his, and one that was included in a Fine Scale Modeler retrospective years ago, was a vignette depicting Appomattox. I consisted solely of a seated R. E. Lee, in the parlor of the McLean house; Lee's aide Walter Taylor; and an anonymous Union officer peering out the window, obviously awaiting the arrival of U. S. Grant. So well executed...the viewer knew precisely what moment in history was being depicted.

For whatever it's worth remember Churchill's quote which went something like: "anyone who isn't a socialist at 18 has no heart and anyone who's still a socialist at 30 has no brain."

1/32.

If they were "ranting", it was a very minor "rant", when compared to other discussions.

:o)

And Chicago has *always* been aware of Shep Paine's talent; and its expansion into the Military Miniature Society of Illinois. For decades, their October "Chicago Show" has been THE premier show in the U.S.A. It draws attendees and exhibitors from other parts of the world, in numbers that IPMS can only dream about. And on the morning of the show, at the crack of dawn, the citizens of Chicago are lined up, out into the hotel parking lot...awaiting entry into the exhibit area.

On the Friday afternoon before the show, Shep holds an "open house" party/get-together at his humble home. And like the article suggested; his home is BETTER than most museums. Uniforms by the hundreds, going back to the Napoleonic era and earlier; along with arms and armor. And probably the world's largest collection of ORIGINAL plates/paintings that we have only previously seen as the artwork in Osprey books.

Awe inspiring...

Matt Bacon wrote in news:BF911856.25264% snipped-for-privacy@leeds.orange.co.uk:

Hey if we weren't picking nits and rivet counting...