#1: M966 TOW Missile Carrier/ ACADEMY

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Joachim P.
A hearty welcome to You!

Jennifer Franklin
following 👀

Bruce Huxtable
Impressive micro-tayloring!

Joachim P.
Thank You, Bruce! I am glad, it worked out, it was a bit tricky 🙂

Villiers de Vos
The winter uniform came out nice.

Joachim P.
Thank You, Villiers, I am happy you like the result. The decision to go for the uniform makeover came from the wish to display the trunk opened. I thought, it needed a reason to be opened on the open road, and so the refueling by jerry can was plausible. The finish-line of this project is in sight now, I enjoy it very much to show my progress here on scalemates. Have a nice sunday!

Rui S
That's looking Great 👍 I agree with Bruce, keep it coming

Joachim P.
Thank You, Rui... a nice, mellow sunday throttle around here, preparing brushes and paint for camo atm 🙂

Ian Shaw
I like how you've done the winter clothing, is it wax paper?

Joachim P.
Hello, Ian, thank you very much! It is not wax paper, but a random plastic bag, that came with a pair of shades. The surface feels a bit rubberish, like foam rubber. With this simple hobby glue "Pritt" it worked out fine.

Ian Shaw
That's a clever idea and its come out really well.

Joachim P.
Thank You, Ian, I am happy, you like it!

Mr James
Great ingenuity with the winter clothing. It came out very well. Also love the camo colour scheme on the Hummer. A lovely winter dio

Joachim P.
Thank You very much! I really appreciate your words. The idea of this winter scene is taken from a NATO training operation in 1987, where the USMC was testing the norwegian winter conditions. The operation was called "Cold Winter", well, obviously. I am happy, that you like the winter clothing, tbh, one "Marine" hasn´t made it in time for the pictures, but I will make some better detail pictures at the weekend.

Mr James
Its nice that there is a little story behind it. I'm always drawn to winter scenes and the snow and ice effect is very good. Winter is here 🙂

Joachim P.
It felt refreshing to make it small but very freezy, while temperatrures rose outside 🙂 I am interested to try the AK Micro Balloons as well! In terms of road/ driving effect to how snow and ice look like, I still want to learn a lot. Many thanks!

Joachim P.
I want to thank everybody, who liked my first complete project here on scalemates. It means a lot to me to see that you like my way af modelling and it is a real pleasure to be around here on scalemates. Cheers!!!

Rui S
Woh, that was fast. Great scene and beautifully done winter camo.👍 congratulations

Joachim P.
Thank You! It means a lot to me to present it now. As my dio is meeting contributions of much more experienced scalemates around here, I am very thankful and am coming to learn! Really appreciated 🙂

Bruce Huxtable
Totally nailed it, Joachim. It feels soo cold....

Joachim P.
Thank You very much, Bruce. Winter as topic of an dio is really rewarding, and now the eye is welcome to chill 🙂

Simon Nagorsnik
Nice topic for your debut here!
Beautifully implemented!
Like your winter camo and good work on the figurines👍

Joachim P.
Thanks a lot, Simon! I am very clear with myself: seeing so much great projects around here is truly inspiring and makes me ask more from myself, in a positive, training way. I am happy you like it 🙂

Neuling
Excellent work and interesting wip pictures. If this is a beginner´s work how will it end ? 🙂

Joachim P.
Hello, Neuling, many thanks for your kind comment. Well, with all this good and even perfect work around here I am sure to strive for more patience and more detail cleanliness....but of course it is the fun, that makes things wow and the details from scratch, that always update the challenge 🙂 thanks again!!!

Mathias Decommere
Taking notes for my winterscene! Love the snow! The rest also offcourse

Joachim P.
Hello, Mathias, thank you very much! The snow finish is "NOCH 08760 Snowflakes"....very nice looking, but because of static attraction as by-catch ALL over the place... 🙂 🙂

Jennifer Franklin
I love the open trunk with supplies being pulled out. The winter effects are amazing. This is an impressive debut.

Joachim P.
Hello, Jennifer, I thank You very much!!! The warm welcome, I was allowed to face here, meant such a good mood and inspiration to me, while building it. Thank you for your compliment, I really appreciate it. 🙂

Joachim P.
I want to thank everybody, who liked this freezy little project. I really appreciate it!!!

Bob Hall
20 Plus years in the Army, never seen that Camo scheme. I like it 👍

Joachim P.
Thank You very much! Well, from my understanding, this camo scheme must have been of a temporary nature only, with all black of the original scheme being touched up with a kind of whiting/ chalk. Even more, I am happy that you like it. I just found the reference material, that I have set to the album from pg. 41-44, by chance, to be honest, but I instantly fell in love with this camo variation.

Spanjaard
Very realistic dio, fantastic

Joachim P.
Hello, Spanjaard, thank you very much! Winter is for sure a future dio topic, again: I really enjoyed making it "cold" 🙂

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Joachim P.
Thank you very much, Villiers. I really appreciate it. I wish a nice weekend to you!