That’s a sweet fine word you have created 
very good 
Okay, missed those 
Entschuldigung!
But the campaign has already ended?
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It has, according to the header at the top of the page.
Exactly… Is it eligible for this campaign?
It is my mistake 
missed the date.
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Me too. Although I don’t think I actually signed up for the group having ran my mouth at the start of the thread I sort of owed something. Despite the acquisition of a couple of suitable subjects and several false starts I never managed to finish anything - as usual…
Cheers,
M
Gonna try to finish up a campaign medal for Skis, Skids, and Floats tomorrow. (D-Day, too.) Went down a rabbit hole trying to find and use computer models of various machines. Wasted a bunch of time.
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Sounds great, Doug.
Looking forward to it 
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In an effort to be helpful and seek inspiration, I took the liberty of creating a list of current campaign medal recipients.
Medals to be Awarded:
Post 155 SGTJKJ Eduard Messerschmitt Bf 109 W
Post 237 john41492 Hasegawa A6M2-N Rufe
Post 262 B-17-peter (???) Piper L4H
Post 269 Gary_Kato Tamiya Schwimmwagen
Post 289 bwilt Amodel F4F-3S Wildcatfish
Post 290 golikell Arado Ar 196A-3
Post 294 EHAM0624 Grumman J2F-6 Duck
Post 296 phil2015 Tamiya Schwimmwagen
Post 299 brekinapez Hobby Boss Landwasserschlepper
Post 305 agincajun Roden L19/01 Bird Dog Float Plane
Proposed Campaigned Medal (Work in Progress)
This is a work in progress. If the campaign leader likes the general form, please give me the rest of today (October 28, 2024) to make it look pretty.
Idea 1 was to 3D render a float plane, a Huey, and a Schwimmwagen in a spherical space, then animate the whole thing to spin like a globe. My know how is just not far enough along to do that in a timely fashion.
Idea 2 involved a PBY Catalina. It was neat, but finding a good model to render was taking way too much time.
Idea 3 was to find plans for every submission by every recipient and space them all around a circle, with names and submissions. Campaign medals are way too small for something that ambitious. It was a mess.
A few hours ago, I abandoned Idea 3 and started work on the medal above because this needs to get done. Idea 4 is a traditional ribbon and medal with a picture in the middle. After doing some research, I decided on a Curtis Model H-1
The float under the ribbon makes the campaign medal asymmetrical, which I thought was kinda cool. The plan is to add a skid/ski at the bottom, going the other direction, and put sea waves around the perimeter of the medal. I can also make it look metallic. I will spend a little bit of time trying to emboss the picture, but from experience, that will probably not work. Planned color scheme is blues and grays because everyone built float planes and water craft.
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Medal looks great for me, I’m voting for that!
BTW, my Piper L4H was a kit from KP, bought in the nineties…
looks great!
Okay. Thank goodness! Did not want to restart again. Medal is now well in progress but will require a few more hours. I’ve been working on it all day between airbrush and sculpting sessions for my Great Ones project.
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That’s fine with me as the Curtiss Model NC-4 is at the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum located where I grew up.
Medal is fine with me…
Is know this is not great but is it okay?
Top bar is a blue sky with air (clouds), land (sand dunes), and sea (a wave) over the top. This represents the multi-environment nature of skid/ski/float vehicles.
The ends of the top bar represent a very stylized sun (left) and moon (right). These sorts of vehicles tend to operate day and night very early in their design history. It is part of their multi-environment nature.
The long float is, in fact, a float.
The crossed skis/skids are also what they are.
The border of the medal is silver and gold in 15 degree sections. This is a very stylized compass. A lot of these vehicles end up in the observation and rescue roles where position on a map really matters.
As stated previously, the center picture is a Curtis Model NC-4. There were float and ski/skid planes before the NC-4, but it was perhaps the most important of the first multi-environment vehicles. The matter is open to debate but almost everyone built a float plane so I chose a very important early float plane.
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Whoa, that is quite the philosophy you put in there!!! Almost as complex as 17th century paintings, where each and every object had a (hidden) message in it…
I do like it though!
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I gotta hand it to you Doug, that’s better than anything I could conjure up that would incorporate all three GB criteria, good job.
Cajun 
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That’s really great!
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So I think we’re ready to submit. If you are good with the medal @Damraska I will submit everything. And thanks for going through and identifying the folks who completed.
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If you like the medal, I like the medal. Submit away!
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