JU-52

As I unpack the collection I am cleaning the models, here a box of three JU-52.

Two are painted in a light gray primer color.

The third one is in a green camouflage paint scheme.

I have a total of four of these, one is in another box.

Long term plan is to buy a couple more so I can parachute about 100 troops in a single attack. They usually carry about 18 paratroopers in each plane.

Americans Interwar Period

During the Interwar period, the US Army was small, and underfunded, but very busy.  Note the Montana Peak hat, or Smokey the Bear hat.

Troops here using the British style hat.  I plan on making some of these figures.

Here are troops wearing the side cap.  I hope to make at least a few of these troops as well, perhaps making the side caps from the heads of the Airfix USAAF figures.

Of course, the standard helmet was the M1917 helmet.  The Emhar / Imex WWI Americans have this helmet, I plan on swapping some heads with the WWI Americans from Airfix, just for variety.

Airfix Americans and British

I have been working on cutting figures off the sprue.

And then trimming the tiny film of flash around the mold line.

I am working on HaT / Airfix WWI British...

And HaT / Airfix WWI Americans.

The color is butterscotch.

I am planning on doing some head swaps.

This group of figures will be complete head swaps, so the British will become Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Americans will become 1920-1940 American Army.  They US Army wore a hat similar to the WWI British hat, even in the field.

T-34 Tanks

Take out the shredded paper, then take out the tanks.  Then dust off the tanks, then clean out the box, then put corduroy cloth and bubble wrap back in the box to form a non-slip lining.

Then put the vehicles back in the box.

Here a Soviet 65 tanks are returned to a box.

Roco Minitanks T-34/85 models in HO scale.

Safely returned to their storage box.  A little room left over for additional crewmen, and support vehicles.