B-17E and USS Nautilus Custom Painted Shapeways giveaway
Apr 28, 2019 22:35:36 GMT
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Post by weedsrock2 on Apr 28, 2019 22:35:36 GMT
This month's giveaway is the "Midway Special" pairing of the USS Nautilus and the B-17E. Both of them were notable participants in the Battle of Midway. USS Nautilus is famous for unknowingly giving the USS Enterprise's dive bomber squadron VB-6 Commander Wade McClusky the means to find the Japanese fleet. The B-17E is especially interesting to me because I had originally planned to paint it in the standard olive drab over neutral gray. But I discovered the B-17s at Midway had been painted in the "unofficial" Hawaiian Air Depot camouflage scheme applied by the local base personnel to aircraft in Hawaii just after the Pearl Harbor attack. The camouflaged B-17's were captured on color film footage shot by John Ford on Midway Island during the battle. Each plane was painted a little differently, but the scheme here is at least close to what I can see in that footage plus some more recent references from guys with better eyes than I have. Some of them still had the camouflage when they were used for recon for the Guadalcanal campaign. The Shapeway's USS Nautilus model is from direwolf and the B-17E is from "Miniatures/Bo Jansen."
You can enter if you have not won a miniature in one of my monthly giveaways in the last six months. If you have a mini from me by any other means like a contest prize you are still eligible. According to my list the ineligible contestants are: curtm911, nagato01 and mnnorthstars. All others are eligible. If the prize is not claimed within two weeks of the drawing I will roll the die again from the same list of participants.
Just post to this thread:
"I want a ticket on the Midway Special" before Monday, May 6th, 2019, 8 PM US Central Time (2:00 am GMT). I will compile the list in order of posting as usual, and then roll for the two winners on Tuesday night, May 7th, around 9:00 pm US Central Time.
The fine print: As always, entries are limited to members of the Forumini that joined the board as of the time this message was posted. I paint several copies of each miniature and the one you receive may be slightly different from the miniature in the photographs. Weedsrock2, his affiliates, and heirs, take no responsibility for the outcome of any game where this miniature is used.
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You can enter if you have not won a miniature in one of my monthly giveaways in the last six months. If you have a mini from me by any other means like a contest prize you are still eligible. According to my list the ineligible contestants are: curtm911, nagato01 and mnnorthstars. All others are eligible. If the prize is not claimed within two weeks of the drawing I will roll the die again from the same list of participants.
Just post to this thread:
"I want a ticket on the Midway Special" before Monday, May 6th, 2019, 8 PM US Central Time (2:00 am GMT). I will compile the list in order of posting as usual, and then roll for the two winners on Tuesday night, May 7th, around 9:00 pm US Central Time.
The fine print: As always, entries are limited to members of the Forumini that joined the board as of the time this message was posted. I paint several copies of each miniature and the one you receive may be slightly different from the miniature in the photographs. Weedsrock2, his affiliates, and heirs, take no responsibility for the outcome of any game where this miniature is used.
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