Small Scale Military Headquarters

Happy Veterans Day. Thanks to all who have served. Please, everyone, take a moment today to think about those whos lives are on the line this very hour.

Finally saw the 113 in person. There were two this morning in a Salt Lake area Walmart. Funny thing though, I had gone to 2 Walmarts north of the one I found them in and didnt see anything, I have since gone to 3 more Walmarts south of there and not seen any more. Either they are selling well or shi...

You say "first issue XD Bradley, woodland camo version," was there a second issue of this vehicle?

Finally saw the FA-18 Hornet ay my local (Orem Utah) TRU today, but 80 bucks is a little too much to justify with the wife.

Still no M113 at the local WM.

What an ass. I'll have to put him on my do no business with list. I wrote him a second email, this time I said: "I have seen pictures of the 1:18 scale M113 APC at http://69.93.119.2/photo/1/showphoto.php?photo=19406&sort=1&cat=1823&page=1 It is not "exactly the same." The scale, obviously, is diffe...

I wrote the seller an email, here is what I said: "Isn't this a photo of the Tamiya 1/35 US M113A2 APC? I would love to see of photo of the item you are actually selling." And here is his responce: "I'ts exactly the same. Thank You Mark Miller" Thats it. No explaination. No picture. Lame. And I agre...

75th, You will need to host you photos somewhere else online. I use www.photobucket.com because it's easy and free. You will just need to set up a user ID there. Once you upload your images to photobucket there will be a web address for each photo. You then use the Img button to post it in a thread ...

I have checked 6 WalMarts in Utah, 4 in Utah valley, 2 in the Salt Lake valley. No M113 here.

As an example, here are a couple other SW heads I have been working on. I included the uncut original heads in the shot, on the left, for comparison. (They are sitting in sculpy so I could get straight shots.) The asian is the head of the SW Bespin Guard figure and the black guy is Sam Jackson, as M...

I don't know about the flags or posters your looking for. You might end up having to make those yourself, but check this site out:
http://www.build-a-rama.com/

I havn't seen too many people posting thier custom figures. I would love to see more of that, so here is one I made today. The body is, obviously, a BBI army figure. The head is from the star wars figure, General Crix Madine. I had to trim, not just the neck peg, but the width of the neck down to th...

Anyone who is planning to retro the m113 back to vietnam era, I could use a few extra of the combat identification panels. I'll be using them on desert vehicles, so desert is preferable, but they would be easy to paint I guess. I don't have alot to trade, I have been casting the BBI webgear pouches,...

Victory,
Have you ordered from this site? They are reliable? I was thinking about ordering a few 1/6 accessories...

Hey airforcecop, dont feel bad. The CIP is used for ground to ground ID. How were you supposed to know.

Combat Identification Panels: The primary means of ground-to-ground identification for vehicles, CIPs are 24-inch x 30-inch panels painted with chemical agent resistant coating and with low emissive, high reflectivity tape. Attached to combat vehicles, CIPs appear as cold spots when seen through the...

Do you accept paypal?

I also found these photos among my files. I remember when I took these shots wishing these vehicles would be made at 1:18 scale. Im not even sure who these guys are. And for the record these photos were taken in Kuwait, near the Iraq/Kuwait border, but within a safe area. http://img.photobucket.com/...

As time went by though we developed ideas that were a little more complex. We built gun boxes for our humvees. I am not one of the welders and didnt help make them but I did ride around in one quite often. Being made of only steel, no real armor, they did not offer much protection but did provide co...

I deployed to Iraq last year with my National Guard Combat Engineer unit. We have no armored vehicles. We deployed with canvas top humvees. Toward the end of our deployment we were issued balistic doors and balistic glass for our windshields. In the mean time though we were only limited by our imagi...

I too would like to thank all the veterans who have served this great nation. I've been home from Iraq almost 6 months now. Spent a year in Baghdad with the Ut ARNG 1457 combat engineer battalion, working under the 1st Armored Division. I too hold a special place in my heart for Vietnam vets. The ol...

I'm just wondering how many veterans are here? What service were you with? What specialty? Where have you served?
Do you think your military service affected your collecting military figures or perhaps did collecting military figures affect your joining the military?