LOL this does look like that 
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Note to self. 
… or check your notes, Homer! D’Oh! 
So yesterday, I washed the AT Gun Squad and nearly marched them into the spray booth before checking their current build status. 
As it turns out, there was still a fair amount of putty and cleanup work left to do. As I’ve been working on several projects along-side this campaign, it seems I lost track of these guys. … Anyway, I was able to reverse engines and got things back on a proper course. Hopefully, I’ll get some primer on them soon.
“To hell with paint!.. Where’d Sally go?”
“I dunno.”
“You seen her?”
“Nope?”
"Me niether… Hey! Where’d our legs go?!!” 
While those Bozos “figure” things out, I started work on the base.
I glued this ‘Ammo by Mig, Pinewood Forest Base’ mat onto one of these ‘Floating Wall Square Cube Shelves’ found on Amazon. I used the smallest of the three frames (5”x5”x4"). There are notches for the mounting hardware on the bottom that I’ll need to deal with later.
So here’s what I’ve got so far.
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That ground cover looks awesome!
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BUCKY Molding and resin casting a wire form was not giving a satisfying result for such small-scale antlers. Using .015 inch diameter piano wire for just the port and starboard main beams allowed shaping and subtle changes on the head.
Next 0.008 to .010 inch stretched plastic sprue was glued with CA glue on the main beam, so placed to form the rest of the rack.
The resulting plastic branched points were bent to shape and trimmed. Finally liquid surfacer smoothed and tapered the joined branches of the antlers.
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Nice rack! … Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one! 
But seriously… Nice rack! 
Love the moss-covered logs, too. Exceptional painting all round! 
—mike
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LOL! Thank you Michael
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Mike, you have a one track mind… mind you, I was on the same track and thought exactly the same thing…
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You know when I agree to be the campaign leader and the questions asked, the phrase nice rack was not surprising……it is in this context….
@amoz02t great looking deer with a nice rack and sbs on how to make one. 
Question, haven’t done much deer hunting but ain’t you looking for heart shot (between front legs) and not what looks like a gut shot?
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I like the mossy fallen trees.
Bambi looks really good, too.
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Thank you all for the nice words. Really appreciate that someone else has my sense of humor (as my wife is not always amused 
) I would add one remark on this wire, sprue, and paint approach to 1/35 scale antlers if any one goes that way. They are most fragile, so expect to make many repairs! Press on my friends! Press on
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Good eye my friend, but that is Bucky’s left lung.
Blockquote Question, haven’t done much deer hunting but ain’t you looking for heart shot (between front legs) and not what looks like a gut shot?
That is a lung on the exit side. I have always been told to hold just behind the front leg in a flank target. He moved down hill about 20 yards and stood before a tree before collapsing in seconds. I felt it was humane. Mechanical broad head arrows are brutal.
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Nice place indeed. Still like living in 'Merica. Plenty of “forest rats” as a forestry service friend once called deer. I have lived in the midwest, Upper Midwest, desert Southwest. I like this area best.
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KY rates well tax-wise too. TN is getting priced out of range in many areas and has a higher sales tax. Truth be told most places beat the heck out of where I am now. NY (where I never felt at home).
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I will take your word on shot placement as I would classify my history as academic and not practical application. That does sound like a better option. Been about 5 yrs since I last played the string. I add it to my fishing license incase I get a wild hair one day. Lots of forest rats in my area, most game is taken by vehicles instead of hunters.
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Question for both @amoz02t and you…
How often and bad are the tornadoes in your areas?
We’ve had a couple of tornadoes come through here but they are usually weak, F0-2, and don’t stay on the ground long. I think 2010 there was an outbreak that had several come through, which did damage and killed some people, but not within 20 miles of here. We had one in 2014 that passed a quarter mile from our house but I don’t think it got above F1. Also up here in northeast Tennessee, we’ll get some severe thunderstorms now and then, usually by the time they get to Knoxville they start breaking up, and the worst stuff goes either north of us into Kentucky or south of us across Asheville in North Carolina. I grew up in western Kentucky not far from Mayfield, which was destroyed by the tornado in December. The weather where I live now is far superior. About the only complaint is that it rains a lot. I think we’re in the same climate zone as the Pacific Northwest in terms of rainfall and cloudy days.
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National Weather Service of tornado database:
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Tennessee has a high sales tax, but no income tax. I haven’t lived in Kentucky for 32 years, so I can’t say what the tax rate is right now, although when I tell my Kentucky friends what my property tax is, they seem jealous. I think Stewart recently moved to Kentucky from Tennessee so I defer to his experience. If you have Investments, Kentucky is awful. I got a tax bill from Kentucky 3 years after I had permanently moved away from Kentucky. My reply that I sent back was not vulgar or mean or anything, but I think I got my point across. From what I gather listening to the news from Nashville and what my friends tell me about what goes on in Frankfurt, Kentucky’s state government is still pretty pathetic and corrupt.(Then again, which state doesn’t say that? And I am unable to speak well of any of the county or city governments around here.) But being a New Yorker, you might like to know that several new friends I’ve made locally that it moved here, they’ve escaped from New York, and they say their research led them to Tennessee over the other states.
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I see what Fred is describing for weather in my part of Louisville as well. We had a neighbor about a mile away lose a roof this past month, but our place only lost electric for about 30 minutes. The tornado damage that was really bad this year was farther west.
Dawson Springs Ky was wiped out this past December and will be long in recovery.
The tank is still out front there in Dawson but the VFW is gone
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