Taylor Anderson

Model Pictures: Bill Early

Bill writes:

This is the 1/240th scale Revell kit of the Campbeltown. It was built to reflect the USS Walker during her voyage to the New Britain Isles.

I  added a photo etched detail set to the basic kit. Scratch built details include the blower, Coke machine, 25mm guns, various deck and gun details, and the Nancy. The bridge area was also highly modified and detailed.  Patch plates were added to the hull to reflect damage done during battle. Machined brass gun barrels were added to the main 4″ gun mounts.The Nancy was built out of balsa wood and sheet plastic, using the drawings on this site. The rigging was done using transparent nylon thread. The hull was painted overall Gunship Gray, with weathering applied by airbrush.

Some Excellent Fan Art

Here is some really good art done by Brian Alexander, CAPT  MC USN! Thank you Brian, for immersing yourself within the Destroyermen world!

October Book Tour Schedule Announced

October 4th, Tuesday:
Powell’s Books in Portland , OR @ 7pm

October 5th, Wednesday
University Bookstore in Seattle , WA @7pm

October 6th, Thursday
Books Inc. in Mountain View , CA @7pm

October 7th, Friday
Barnes & Noble in Huntington Beach, CA @7pm

October 8th, Saturday
US Naval Base Exchange in San Diego , CA @12pm

October 9th, Sunday
Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego , CA @2pm

October 11th, Tuesday
Barnes and Noble in Fort Worth , TX @7pm

October 15th, Saturday
New York Comic Con, Javitz Center

ACCELERATE TO ATTACK SPEED: Military Science Fiction

Military SF/F authors have kept readers at the edge or their seats by incorporating wartime experience and strategies of armed conflict into the far-future and alternate history worlds they create. Not since Luke Skywalker blasted the hell out of the Death Star have we seen such interest in war-inspired science fiction and fantasy. Perhaps a sign of the time we’re in (and whatever might be said, we all bow before Scalzi’s influence) people just want books about good guys defeating unfriendly space invaders and plausible visions of a future military. May the force be with everyone in the audience as Taylor Anderson, Jack Campbell , and Myke Cole, fire up their ammo and discuss this Semper Fi friendly subgenre of popular fiction.

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MODERATOR: Ginjer Buchanan, executive editor Berkley/NAL

Model Honorary Mention: David Mills

A guy named David Mills sent these–said he didn’t mean to join the contest because his model is Paul Jones–but she was Walker‘s sister, and really was in the Asiatic fleet.  Really nice job!

David writes:

 This is the ship I built a few years ago based on the old Revel kit.  I chose the Paul Jones and included a sampan to give it a location.  I cut off the bottom of the hull, and scratch built the gun shield the boarding ladder and the searchlight tower.  

The figures are all “N” guage railroad figures, but all but one are female.  The male figures were to tall. The exception is the sailor with his hands on his hips, to great a pose to miss, so I cut him off at the ankles.  Notice the large alien creature trying to land on the rigging in the 2nd shot.