Radio Station Trouble

M3 halftrack converted to an armored car for rapid response by Military Police in the event of civil unrest.

Radio station KXKVI has an emergency.

The police, the Army and people from the neighborhood have responded.

KXKVI is run by a local man who has been doing experiments and they have gotten out of hand.

They police were unable to respond adequately in this small town and asked for help from the Army.

Crowds have been drawn to the noise and excitment.

It's a lot going on for a usually quiet location.

The owner of the station and his wife exit the building, preceded by an almost invisible being!

Police stand back across the street from the thing!
 

Iron Ace and Starship Troopers

This model came from eBay and I am sure it is long out of production.

I think it is a former Heller kit.  There was no pilot so I rounded one up and now there is one.

Iron Ace, his plane, and Rubberman and Black Mail his two main rivals.

I think it is an interesting little WWII group.

Working on my Action Fleet Starship Troopers figures.  I liked all the movies but I always figured it was rather stupid that they did not have any ground vehicles.  If they were not going to do the Mobile Infantry as jump troopers, then at least a few tanks and APCs would have been in order.  And don't get me started on their tactics.  I have added a few additional figures to the unit by painting other science fiction figures in the Starship Troopers colors.

I have also obtained and repainted a number of Matchbox, and Hot Wheels items to give them greater ground mobility and reconnaissance capabilities.  Also a large drone.  Last summer I stripped all the paint off these vehicles, except the drone, and repainted them. I also began adding decals but the weather got too cold for that and they will wait for summer again.  I also painted about 100 figures for this group from other non-Starship Trooper sets I had.
 

Dewoitine 520 Iron Ace Airplane

Here is my Iron Ace single seat fighter plane, painted in the same metallic blue with gold wash as the Iron Ace himself.

In the comic the Iron Ace I don't think they specifically mention what kind of plane he uses.

But since the guy who gives him the plane is French and in France, a French plane seemed a good choice.

Since Iron Ace is British and by this time France had fallen to the Germans a plane in French markings seemed like a bad idea.

So I put British decals on it.

I don't normally do RAF planes but some of my USAAF plane models had RAF decal markings included in the model so here you go.

I always do my planes with wheels down so they can sit on a runway.
 

Black Mail

He is wearing plate armor that is magenta but he is called, Black Mail.

He is a robot super villain that works for the Germans in WWII.

Iron Ace is his primary opponent.

Super Toy Soldier Collector Billy Hill gave him and host of other figures to me.  Thank you BH!

Iron Ace faces off against Black Mail

Also Rubberman.

Rubberman, Black Mail and Iron Ace together.

Along with an Airfix US Army WWII military police officer for scale.

Part of my small but growing super hero collection.  Mostly I do super heroes and villains from the late 1930's until about 1980, but mainly WWII and Batman 66 related.  Many of them like these three are largely forgotten today.
 

Rubberman

Rubberman is a WWII German who has had an accident that makes him stretchy.

Not unlike the abilities of Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four.

This is a figure from the spares box, and I added a sword from Caesar Miniatures.

I repainted this guy to match Rubbermans costume.

Interesting and distinctive figure.

Iron Ace who was painted a blue metallic with a gold wash.

Painted purple.
 

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.
 

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.