Bunker Talk

Friday, December 19, 2025

Iron Ace

Iron Ace is a comic book hero who as a British pilot gets shot down in WWII and rescued by a Frenchman.

He eventually dons the armor of Charlemagne when the Germans search the castle.

He has magic armor and a magic airplane that is given to him by the Frenchman.

Actually the magic is some kind of technology that makes them impenetrable.

This is a Caesar Miniatures European Knight with a head swap from another European Knight, mounted on a new base.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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.