Shenanigans 3: Tamiya M8 and Willys Jeep

[Guest]

Si - Kind of you to say so, but I'm in awe in what you chaps achieve.

Tim - Weeeeeeed!

Greg - Very many thanks.

[col68]

Fantastic work Peter

[Guest]

Thank you Colin. Much appreciated.

[Guest]

Ah those 1/35 days endless possibilities. My mind says yes my eyes say NOO. glad to see you can still achieve such fine work on that scale. I think your end result is amazing .
RICK

[Guest]

Simple base it my be, but artistically set out.
Nice one Peter .
Now looking fwd to the next build. Try not to get too good at this please :smiling2: Si is quite right !
John .

[Lee Drennen]

Third figure painted and mounted. Here are Bill and Ben:

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Now for Little Weed. Weeeeeeeeed!

Peter
You said weed

[Lee Drennen]

Thank you John

I couldn't resist putting them on a simple base:

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I've decided that it looks fine as it is, so I'm going to call this one complete and build the M6 as a stand alone project with a new thread. Thanks for all the fish.

Very nice dio Peter

[Guest]

Rick - I have ended up with a blinding headache after two days of painting 1/35 figures. I should have taken it easier, but there are a couple of bust commissions in the offing, and anyway I got a bit over-enthusiastic.

John - Thanks. The base is just a bit of Model Scene grass mat, but I was struck by the way the green in it off-set the colour of the vehicles and decided I liked the effect. I was looking at the M6 kit last night and it does seem a bit basic - the holstered carbines look like wooden crutches and there are release points all over the front of the radiator grill. It will need a lot of sorting out and quite a bit of extra stowage to deal with the problems.

Lee - Thank also. Perhaps I should explain the weed references for those not of a certain age and nationality. The two crew reminded me of 'Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men' a couple of puppet characters from a children's TV programme of the 1960s. They were mostly made of flowerpots, and lived in two larger pots, between which grew a plant called Little Weed. Little Weed woke up when the gardener went in for his lunch and Bill and Ben came out to play. They all talked a weirdly intelligable nonsense language and Little Weed used to shout 'Weeeeed!' all the time, especially when warning Bill and Ben that the gardener was on his way back. There was also a tortoise called Old Slowcoach. They don't make 'em like that any more!

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Awwww! Makes me well-up.

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Bad headache due to over enthusiastic painting!

Enough said!

As some of the chaps have already commented Peter, good to hear you are going back to your busts as you put armour modellers to shame with speed, detail, figures, base and quality finish by improving very basic kits.

I think you have made the right decision with the M6 and M8, they are going to make two separate scenarios, the M8 and jeep looks spot on, and your Tamiya figures are quite unbelievable, everyone else would have swapped the heads!

Well done Peter

Hopefully a headache reduced/free day today?

I am hoping for the same with my knees, the new one is fine, the left is being a real pain!

Back to work for me by 180319, so I will need to get stuck into the builds I have started.

Have a good and pain free day

regards

Steve H

[Tim Marlow]

Bit more for the B and B cognoscenti.....
The language is called Oddle Poddle, there are web sites for it, honest! Bill and Ben were voiced by Peter Hawkins, who also did Noddy, Captain Pugwash, Tintin, and Bleep and booster amongst others. He was also the original Dalek and Cyberman voices and the original Zippy from rainbow.....kids TV royalty or what....then again, perhaps he was all the BBC could afford ..... I remember him on the nineties early evening show Wogan years ago, repeating back phrases in oddle poddle that were given to him by the audience ..... Nigel Lawson was apparently niggly lawpoop.....
Great painting by the way Peter, it appears I said “Hello, just hello”. Earlier so I thought I’d better clear it up.....

[Guest]

Thanks for that Tim. Dear old Peter Hawkins - what a talent. Funny how the programmes one fondly remembers are just very brief periods on TV history. I was of the right age for Noddy (I had a Noddy suit no less), Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and the Woodentops, whilst being was too old for Camberwick Green, Trumpton when they came along. I loved Bleep and Booster, which was shown during Blue Peter.

[Guest]

It's like a trip down memory lane.
I can remember sitting on the floor watching some cowboy film, Tonto was an Indian , and they guy had beautifull white horse, was it Trigger. ? That must have been in the late 50s, of course in black and white, and on a great big tv with a small screen .
Over did the eyes it seems Peter. Do be careful.
John .

[Mike Mortimore]

Hi Peter,
Cracking finish to the vehicles. Simple the base maybe but it really works....... love it. Sometimes less is always more....

Looking forward to your next endevour.....

Cheers Mike :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

[wotan]

John

It was the Lone Ranger and his horse was Silver. Hence the old joke "What's the closest thing to Silver?......... The Lone Ranger's bum.."

John

[Guest]

John R - They were still showing The Lone Ranger when I was a kid. I didn't really get it.....

Mike - Very glad you like it. Some more pics below.

John - Thank you!

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