Rumors

At the Atomic Testing Base, it's payday. On payday, once a month, everyone lines up to sign their pay book and then gets their check. Then they line up a second time to get their money. With a large base like this, there is a lot of cash being handled. But with a murder on the base, not everyone is thinking about money. After they get there pay, many of the men wait around and the rumors fly.

I got it on good authority, that there was more than one man murdered, and they are covering it up to prevent a panic, that's what I heard.

I heard they don't have any suspects, none at all. They have no idea who did that terrible crime.

Rumors fly faster than jets or even rockets. My friend told me... My buddy said... I heard in the chow line... A guy I know works in HQ and he says the colonel says... Rumors everywhere.

Everyone has a theory. Everyone has an opinion. No one has a clue.

HO Guns

These HO scale WWII German artillery models are mostly resin kits. They are free of any of the flaws found in many kinds of resin kits because they use a vacuum chamber to suck out the air that often leaves bubbles in the model.

The gun barrels are aluminum, and are very well made. They even are a bit hollow at the muzzle end which makes them much nicer that most plastic guns.

The instructions for both models are the same, only the gun barrels are different. They can be built either in the firing or towing modes.

Revell is also doing this gun now in 1/72nd scale, this HO version is very large, I am sure the Revell one will be huge.

This HO scale wheel is compared here to a 1/72nd scale soldier, so in HO scale he would be about seven feet tall. It is a big wheel.

German Artillery

ArsenalM makes very high quality resin and mixed media HO 1/87th scale military vehicle kits.

The kits are made in Germany and frequently contain photo etched brass and even aluminum gun barrels.

Recently I purchased a 170mm and 210mm WWII German artillery guns. They were common weapons used all during World War Two as very heavy artillery.

The 170mm guns were in batteries of three or four guns and battalions of two batteries. The 210mm guns were in batteries of two guns and battalions of two batteries. They were often attached at corps level units.

Atomic Testing Base Autopsy

The doctor and his assistant investigate the nature of the wounds to the body of the dead soldier. There was a very large, deep and curved wound to the center of the upper back.

There was a similar would on the right side of the body, just a large mark, not really a puncture.

The front of the body had numerous small scratches and scrapes, as if it had been dragged along the ground.

The CID men don't have any obvious motive for the slaying and this could be a difficult case.