Small Scale Military Headquarters

Hey yall!!! Ive been out working on my new dio---I hope yall like thisn'!!! ---RED---
After flying cover for some bombers over Bougainville LT.Thomas (SMITTY) Smiths Hellcat was hit by one of the many Japanese anti-aircraft guns around the runway!!! With no way to make it back to the USS Princeton LT. Smitty knew he would have to ditch his plane in the unfriendly waters of the Solomons island!!!!After sending out a mayday Lt.Smitty brought his plane down and prepaired himself for what he hoped wasnt going to be along night!!! 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[img]<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/3718 ... 026ed2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"></a><br><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=377&i=pt ... .jpg"><img src="http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/3718 ... 755eec.jpg" border="0"></a> ---RED---

Kool but where is John F Kennedy and I don’t see no sharks. lol j/k


Great Work I love your Dio's

WOW!!!!
Very nice job, Red.
Hope the "Navy" recovered that Hellcat for use in another battle.

Hey yall!!! Thanks for the nice comments!!! I was thinking of a pre JFK command PT109!!! Im glad yall enjoy my story!!!---RED---

Red you needed to throw some sharks circeling the dingy to spice it up a bit.Way cool.

WAY COOL!!!!!
the PT boat rocks!
and the story is perfect for the scenario
great job!

RED, your stuff is always tops. I look forward to the Raider ingress!

great dio Red.

Very, cool little photo story.

Where did you get the raft from?

very cool......in spite of being 1/24 scale that PT boat looks really great.

What did you make the dingy out of?

Well Done Red, great story and pics.

Very nice red!

Very cool... but I had to laugh when I saw "Shipwreck" at the Helm.

Excellent job!

Great story.

Not too many people here would sacrifice a plane for a dio.

Good job.

Kevin.

Awesome!

Excellent job RED!!!

[quote="kevrut"]Great story.

Not too many people here would sacrifice a plane for a dio.

Hey yall!!! Thanks---I had alot of fun with this dio but it was 1 of the hardest to do because everything that floats wanted to drift away!!!So when I got the raft in the right spot the plane would drift away and when I got the plane right the raft would drift away and so on!!!So next time out I will anchor everything down!!! But hey dont worry---the plane never did sink all the way!!! So everything that went into the drink was fished out!!! ---RED---

Man those are some really AWEASOME shots!!! VERY cool work as always!!!

* * As always RED. ... Water don't hurt this stuff anyways unless you've got decals applied.


Mitch v MG

kevrut wrote:Great story.

Not too many people here would sacrifice a plane for a dio.

Good job.

Kevin.

My plane may suffer this fate if I can't find new landing gear, and bbi hasn't responded to my replacement request.
Anyway, great story and dio.

you need to have one of these as well.

OK, that dio was just too much fun Great setup and pics, Red!

VMF115 wrote:you need to have one of these as well.

"We're gonna need a bigger plane."

I love the dio, Where'd you get that PT boat?

I always wanted a real, detailed, BIG shark when I was a kid... Something mean, ugly, big, fat and with chunks of kids hanging from it's teeth...

Yeah, my kind of animal.

awesome work - I guess we will be seeing that on an up and comming WWII movie promotion pretty soon.