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Danny Ray Autore
Thank you Guy. You just reminded me that was indeed the battalion he was part of. It's on his headstone. My father didn't remember his dad. He was too young. I only have one picture of him. He's with my grandmother and my dad. My dad was just 18 months old when his father was killed. Part of my dad's final wishes was to have half of his ashes spread over his father's grave. I'm not sure if it's allowed to be done but I can't see how anybody would know? We hope to get to do it at the end of this summer. My dad did visit his dad's grave in the 1980's but only once. Least we can do is put him with him as he wanted. I think it affected my father more than he realised not having his dad around during his formative years. Sometimes we forget that behind all this machinery there were real people with real families, problems, hopes, etc.
I think I've just inspired myself to plan a diorama of a British infantryman (do they make specific regimental figure kits? Say the KRRC?) . Cue a billion questions from me about how to paint figures now!! Quick Jakko, run!! Hide!! lol

Thanks again Guy. That's informative. I love this site. It's great 🙁 ps I have a good friend from my schooldays who served in the Green Jackets. They are mostly made up of Londoners, I believe. Anyway he always says something when I speak of my grandfather (they were both in the same regiment because, as Guy says, the Rifles became The Green Jackets). It is (I hope I remember correctly) Celer Au Dax (cue me saving this text in case it's deleted as I leave the site to check Google on my phone lol
And it's a good job I did. I had it totally wrong. It should be Celer Et Audax. Which means Swift and Bold) it is their regimental motto. 😁

Clair Greenwood
Hey Danny I have about 2 Tb of 1/35 stl files, about half is figures. I'll look though over the weekend in between automotive work I have going on and see what all I have that may work. On a side note and I've only done this once so far but I can take a single photo to make a scale figure of a particular person. I made a figurine of my granddaughter that came out pretty damn good for a first attempt. If you like I could try to do the same if you'll privately share the photo with your grandfather. I just think a figurine of "him" rather than some generic soldier might mean more to you and as my friend I'd love to make that happen for you.

Danny Ray Autore
@inigo Fuchs , I knew there was some reason I followed the YouTubers example! Maybe next time I'll look first but how else will I learn unless I make some big old mistakes 🙂 to be honest the little 1:76 version of the T34 has come out ok and that was primed exactly the same. An added bonus was I didn't need to paint the road wheels black. Just infilled the hubs with some green 🙂

Danny Ray Autore
At least on the last pic you can see the wheel edges are black. The only semi ok thing about it 😳😳😂😂😂

Danny Ray Autore
Love the story of this commando raid. Do you know about this @ jakko?

Danny Ray Autore
My first Academy kit

Danny Ray Autore
Love this group. People are really friendly. 🙂

Danny Ray Autore
My first Ryefield kit.

Clair Greenwood
Always always work with p/e on wax paper, super glue wont stick well. In fact it takes up to an hour for a drop to dry on wax. One drop gets lots of connections done 😉 It's kind of like riding a crotch rocket, first few tries you may get road rash, but you get better and better. Next think you know you're winning a GP race.

Danny Ray Autore
Thanks Clair. Good advice. I think I'll go watch a few YouTube vids on working with PE too.

Danny Ray Autore
This Border models limited edition cutting Matt came with the Crusader Mk III I bought for my Murphy memorial build. It's too good to cut into in my opinion!!

Danny Ray Autore
That was difficult. Drilling out the barrel of a 1:35 Bren gun. Smallest hole over ever drilled out. So far 🙂

Danny Ray Autore
Just need to rob a bank and do a few hundred hours building first 🙂

Danny Ray Autore
Nice bit of my bare foot in the pic. Good job I was wearing pants! 🙂

Danny Ray Autore
Love my new Archimedes drill. Makes doing very small bores that much easier. Speaking of small bores, am I speaking too much? 😂

Danny Ray Autore
I think, in future, I'll paint most of the small items, like tools, before I attach them. So much easier.