Recent content by JamesOLeary

Thanks, guys. Not sure if Bob has a foot fetish or not, but hopefully a judge at a show will. Lol. Most of my subjects do usually have some elements of personal recollection associated with them. I try to match up events and situations that happened in Vietnam to people I know with similar...

Thanks, guys. I just completed the vignette a little while ago and took some preliminary photos to see what needs to be touched up. I will take better photos whenever I set up my portable photobooth. Details to note would be the can and lid of Kiwi shoe polish, dauber, buffer brush, and...

Tonight I finished painting the hootch maid. After looking at the photos, I might touch up the face, but she is done for the most part. Because of the positioning of the arms and boot it was pretty challenging to paint her face and the front of her blouse. I also made the buffing brush and...

Thanks, Saul. I started painting the hootch maid, but I haven't taken any photos of her yet. Because of the way her arms are positioned, her face and the front of her blouse are going to be challenging to paint. In order to make some progress I made an open can of Kiwi shoe polish that is...

Thanks, Gary. I hope they are the more pleasant type of memories that are coming back. I try to invoke the better memories through my work. My dad told me about some of the hootch maids they had. At one time they had an older msmma san and her daughter who used to bring an iguana to work with...

Most of the time if I shined my boots, it was just a brush shine. Then once we got the Desert boots I no longer had to do even that.

This evening I attached the right arm onto the hootch maid after I sculpted the cloth wrapped around her first two fingers and hanging down. Those of you who are familiar with spit shining boots should appreciate this detail. I still need to make the can of shoe polish, buffing brush, and...

Monday I painted the boots, some shined and others needing to be shined. Yesterday I glued them to the base.

Since there is about a month left before the Tulsa Figure Show and I have only two projects completed and the M577 in progress, I figured that I would try to knock out a quick vignette that I had been planning on making for a while. It depicts a Vietnamese civilian woman who was hired to be a...

I thought I had posted the latest photos of my progress but I guess I hadn't. Here is the M577 as she has been for the past week or so. I sculpted the tent roll, made and painted the long wooden box that the crew had made, and added two footlockers that were used as seats during movements.

Thank you. Normally I would have started the weathering process using oil washes, but I couldn't find my oil paints so it is all done with powdered pigments with chipping and scratches done with black and white acrylics mixed to look somewhat like aluminum.

After completing the tribute to SGT Russell Fant, I started working on this model again. I used DEF Models early road wheel set for the road wheels. I attached them today. I still need to weather them. Other things I have done: Removed masking tape from driver's compartment. Installed driver's...

Thanks. Hopefully I can get this completed before I get distracted by something else...oh, look, a squirrel!

Thanks, Guys. Sharon really likes it. Now I just need to figure out a way to get it to her without it getting damaged in transit.

Two nights ago I painted the trim vane. In mid 1967 all of the trim vanes in the Battalion were to have a Panther painted onto them as the battalion was known as the Panthers. There were several variations and poses allowed. All of the HQ tracks whether M577s or the Commander's and S3 M113s had...