u/Left_Afloat

To cut down on the amount of unnecessary posting about the Timber Fire and as a PSA, I want to share this application with you that has been only getting better the last few years. You can create “alerts” from specific counties throughout California that will notify you when fires start or throughout their development. You can also just select the fires on the map and scroll through to read information that is being relayed through PIOs, radio traffic scanner heads that work for non profit, etc. It also gives you the opportunity to add overlays that show mandatory evacuation zones and evacuation warning zones. Honestly, this is a must have for Californians and I cannot speak highly enough about it. It is a lifesaver for civilian and fire personnel alike.

This is FREE app with paid upgrades like features utilizing ADS-B for firefighting aircraft locations.

Good evening fellow model makers. Don’t post here too often but absolutely love the work and inspiration! Speaking of that, I took inspiration on this work personally - last year my coworkers and friends roped me into attending a World War 2 paratrooper school. I spent 9 days in an Army Airfield hangar with more than 20 in my class and over a hundred volunteers from pilots to mechanics to cooks learning how to static line jump out of a true WWII C47. If anyone is interested I am more than happy to tell you more about it, otherwise check out WWII Airborne Demonstration Team wwiiadt.org.

Anyways, on to the model! I have two separate 1/6 Dragon figurines thrown into a fever dream idea. I grabbed a deep enough shadow box for a plastic C47 door that came with one of the figures and started finding ways to mount them. After struggling with the “out the door” trooper, I finally gave in and used some super glue and his hand to grab the inside of the frame. I wanted him outside of the frame to give the perception of having jumped. Behind the door jumper, I used picture wire to simulate the static line and a green/red LED with buttons attached to a 9v battery receiver for the jump lights.

The cherry on top is two separate recordable greeting card chips that I threw recordings on. The first recording is the audio of the jump into Normandy from Band of Brothers…which I then cut into audio from my run down a static line and subsequent exit. The second audio is the song “Blood on the Risers”, an original song created by early paratroopers. Both of these can be started with a button on the side as well.

I understand the uniforms differ, the intent was to show two different troopers during the more well known operations (Overlord and Market Garden). One thing that irks me is the Mae West looking inflated, but that’s how the kit came.

Toro Park installed some Flawk cameras apparently.

Watch Duty - Wildfire/Disaster Information Application

1/6 Scale WWII Paratrooper Diorama