M46 Tank

More work on the little trucks but also on a Heiser Models M46 that I got from Fidelis Models.

https://fidelismodels.com/blogs/hobby-advice/heiser-models-m46-patton-tank-resin-model 

It is a great model and easy to put together.

Painted and unpainted.  It was an interim tank design, basically an M26 turret with an M47 hull and engine.

They were used in the Korean War by the US Army.

Work on the little Christmas trucks continues.

Christmas Trucks

Over the last few years I gathered a bunch of these little Christmas trucks from Hobby Lobby.  They have a hole in the roof that held a loop so it could be hung from the Christmas tree.  The bed had a Christmas tree glued to the back and there is an air hole in the tail gate of these hollow trucks.  They were covered in glitter paint.  I hate glitter.

I have been filling the holes on the roof of most of them and the tailgate hole on all of them.  The roof hole gets filled with a plastic disk and super glue and then sanded down.  It's a very thin resin model.

Some of them are rather wonky, I think the paint remover caused sag on them.

This truck has a ring around the roof, and I have left it alone.  A couple of these trucks will be Army trucks with a machine gun in the roof and this one, I built out the truck bed.

Some will become police trucks, others US Army and US Navy and a few civilian trucks.
 

Giant Ants

It's a very giant bee / ant in 1/72nd scale.

Here is a giant ant to attend the queen.

In their lair.

Burn it, burn everything!

Whooosh!

Flames engulf the giant queens!

Good job troops!
 

Giant Bee

I got this giant bug from the dollar store.

It's a giant bee.

Bottom side of the bee.

It seems oddly painted, more green and yellow than the usual black and yellow.

It is an okay bee, but I don't plan on using it as a bee anyway.

I hope to use it as a queen ant.

It will need a repaint.