Michel, that's the second time you've made me laugh out loud this evening!

Michel, I'm guessing you're not of the generation that remembers the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby 'Road to...' movies (tbh I'm not either but I remember black and white TVs) - but I'm hoping this might repay you (and Mr Thomas) a laugh...

One of us could borrow a dress from Rob Pollock and pretend to be Dorothy Lamar...

Louis, I'm a sick man. I enjoy building tanks. There, I said it out loud. Later this year I may think of revisiting Karl and Hans on the Eastern front. Maybe even at their fateful rendezvous with a certain bridge near Belarus.

This evening I painted some more of my crew and of course, the camel. I'm back at work tomorrow so no benchtime until Friday.

Louis, this isn't one of your DAT buddies? I'm reliably informed he was just trying to climb on top of the camel as he couldn't find his tank...

By jove, a Cameleon...

Rubber rimmed road wheels I paint in the main color first. Then I use a black permanent marker to add the rubber color. After that, you can use enamels.

Re weathering: The rubber chipped here and there so along the rim, you scratch with a hobby knife or small chisel. A final coat of paint finishes that.

Desert weathering I use a combination of diluted acrylic mud color you can spray on with an old (tooth)brush and then some light yellow pigments. That would be my 50 cents...

Thanks for those techniques, Michel. What I seriously want to avoid is just replicating aircraft weathering on a tank; seen it done many times before and it looks just 'wrong' to the eye.

Great looking Tiger, David ! We'll make a proper Tanker out of you if you don't watch out! Clanky things are FUN! Right, Louis? Modeling them takes different techniques than aircraft and you can take that to the bank. They make better targets than camels, though. And they smell better.

Ungulate ... oh deer
Camelflage
WOW! What great things we discuss here!

What's that DAT doing? I have an opinion but is open for debate. I do know that some guys (especially some tankers) will do about anything for a laugh ... or a Camel. Besides, while Louis may be right about the DAT and the ungulate, I'll say this. Camel IS tasty. During Desert Storm (because Dessert Storm is something entirely different) we were fed by the Saudis. They furnished our food, water, and fuel. In no particular order. Anyway, we were told that some of the meat we had was camel. I wouldn't bet my mortgage payment on that but I wouldn't be surprised. WHATEVER kind of meat it was, it was tasty after I covered it with a healthy portion of Tabasco Sauce. Tabasco Sauce will make nearly any meat edible. You could shove a sparrow between two slices of bread and if you have Tabasco Sauce it will be edible!

Now that we know how to paint a camel, we can go on. My question is this: how do you weather a camel? SHOULD you weather a camel? Would it be better to smoke one? I have smoked several camels in my day. Uh, the soft pack type. That was long ago.

I am old enough to remember Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road To ... " movies. I actually met Mr. Hope and shook his hand at a book signing of his in 1963. The book is titled "I Owe Russia $1200." It is HILARIOUS! As I recall, he talks a bit about camels in the book, among other topics. But I don't think he ever ate one!

So David, what do you make of my obsession with camels? Actually, Peter O'Toole had more opinions about camels than I. Lawrence of Arabia probably did, too. David T. - how comfortable is a camel ride? It looks bouncy. I hear they can run quite fast. I rode an elephant once as a kid. It was at a shopping center I lived near to back in 1959.

Elephants, Tigers, and Camels ... oh my! My post is going to the dogs now, so I'll say "Ta Ta" for now. TTFN.

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Jeff, you just may either the sanest or the most certifiable man I know - can't figure out which...