Turret Talk Volume VIII
Volume VIII TURRET TALKVOLUME VIIIBY T.P. SCHWEIDER THE FIFTY: No, Regular readers, this installment is not about a mythic band of Ancient Warriors, but about the greatest Heavy Machine Gun ever made, the Browning M2-HB .50 Cal Machine Gun. Designed by that genius John Moses Browning in 1921 to meet an Army specification of a […]
Turret Talk Volume VII
Volume VII TURRET TALK VOLUME VII BY T.P. SCHWEIDER TANKER A tank, by itself, is just an inert mass of metal. It takes a crew to turn it into a lethal weapon system. So, who are they, the people who make up the crews, the tankers? I’ll attempt in this article to define them for […]
Turret Talk Volume V
Volume V TARPS & CABLES Two vital pieces of OVM Gear (Outer Vehicle maintenance equipment) armor model manufacturers are not too diligent about including in their kits are tarps and tow cables. A tarp (tarpaulin) is a rectangular piece of heavy, dark green canvas impregnated with a water-resistant chemical and its main function is to […]
Turret Talk Volume IV
Volume IV By T.P. Schweider, MSGT. USMC, retired. Refueling A few Meetings ago, one of the Raffle Prizes was a Royal Models 1/35th scale WWII Tanker, pouring fuel out of a 5-Gal. Can. Thinking about the figure after the meeting (did not win it) It occurred to me what it was that I’d found a […]
Turret Talk Volume III
Volume III By T.P. Schweider, MSGT. USMC, retired. The Rule of Fist It appears that a certain number of modelers who wish to make battle-scarred AFV’s do so by damaging the road wheels; taking nicks and chucks out of the rubber portions of the said wheels. There are several after-market kits of damaged road wheels […]
Turret Talk Volume I
Volume I By T.P. Schweider, MSGT. USMC, retired.The purpose of this column will be to give you some idea of operating a Tank based on 14 years experience in every billet in a Tank Co. from loader to 1st Sgt., in locales at Camp Pendleton & 29 Palms, Ca; Ft Hood, TX, Ft Knox, KY; […]
How to Repair or Avoid Simple Modeling Mistakes
How to repair or avoid simple modeling mistakes Simple modeling mistakes happen to all of us. Most can be repaired. Even more can be avoided (more on that later). It’s been said (tongue-in-cheek) that award-winning modelers don’t make fewer mistakes than others, they just know how to cover them up better. So let’s fix some […]
Type 95 Ha-Go Pelileu 1944
This piece was inspired by the color illustration in Concord’s Tank Battles of the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Trying to find vehicles that vary the standard camouflage colors of the combatants of the war is never easy and this fit the bill perfectly. A quick search of the Internet found that the island […]