Mil-Net, like the Reaper forums, occasionally run a miniature swap. This year I signed up, but I ended up with *two* IDs on the Mil-Net boards and did not realize I had a miniature due until the last day of the swap! Time to hit the painting desk so that Sgt Crunch would not be disappointed!
 

I asked him what he wanted and he said anything but a Dictator (as I guess he must have around a bazillion of them!) So I thought I'd do something unique. After all, if WHFB can have Blood Bowl, why can't CAV have NASCAR?

This is a true-scale fighter called the Tsuiseki which is available in the online store. It's a terrific model and my son asked me if it was a Warthog (the A-10 the Air Force flies). The hex base it is on is the standard one used for CAV and is about 1 inch across, so this is a sizeable model. I wanted to give it some personality and so mounted it at an angle as if it was coming in for an attack run. Then I got to thinking, what do pilots do in their off time? Barn storming, that's it! So here is the aircraft coming around a pylon in a race!

The colors on the first photo are a bit washed out as I was in a hurry to get it out the door. You can see it has a NASCAR style number of the tail and a sponsor logo on the engine cowling! I went with simple on the humor part so if he wanted to paint over the STP logo he could do that and just make this a night fighter or something.

One of the things that came out well (on one side, at least)was the pilot's name under the cockpit - "CRUNCH". Hard to do something that small freehand! I'm not sure it's visible in the pictures but it's black text on a white background with a red border around the box.

And here's a little known historical tidbit. After the first Gulf War the Air Force wanted to get rid of the A-10s and turn them over to the Army, thus ridding themselves of that pesky ground support mission. The Army Chief of Staff at the time, GEN Vouno, wisely declined the offer as he already had more helicopters than the Air Force had planes! 

Good hunting, Sgt Crunch! 

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Mad pat (129.110.241.35) 2007-11-27 08:53:59 There actually are rules floating around out there from a old Casket Works for Airship racing. Reply | Quote 0   0

Mr Michael Cannon (75.110.201.54) 2007-11-27 18:06:05 Thanks for the heads up! I found it in the file located here: http://www.reapermini.com/pdf/CW18_articles.pdf Reply | Quote 0   0

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