#VALLEJO

[gaertan]

Skitarii marshal speedpaint

Did a 4hrs speedpaint on this adeptus mechanicus(from warhammer 40k) marshal miniature! Almost forgot how fun it is to paint a mostly full metallic looking miniature in a fast fashion, its such a nice change of pace

[willowwind78]

Sea Base

While waiting for paint to dry and to embark on my next painting exhibition, I give you: Sea Bases!

Lovely little bases they are. Rather than get annoyed with myself because I put a ton of work into a miniature and am delayed by the base not being ready, I learned from my previous annoyances and painted the bases first. They were also fun to paint.

I attempted to duplicate the water effect I made on the siren from a few weeks ago but then decided to scuff it up instead of leaving it smooth. Tiny little drops of color made these fun to paint.

On to the elves!

[phoenix-kingz]

Update on the Orks for Orktober!!! Finishing up Kommando in chief for my Death Dealaz Waaagh

[alternativeminiatures]

Don't know if you knew but Acrylics Vallejo workers have been on strike for a month to get better working conditions, and finally they won!!

A rise of 3000€ per year.

School checks of 200€ per child up to 25yo.

500€ when a worker has a kid.

Higher benefits for single parents.

New protocol to fight harassment in the work place.

Improvement in workplace safety.

Compliance of all requests made by the Employment Authority.

They are able to get better conditions because their union and massive participation in the strike (98% of the workers), and I'm sure the public boycott also helped them.

If you're not in a union you should join one, as workers it's our biggest advantage.

[lorainefaith]

📸 photos from Larussell’s 30th Bday shot by me ❤️

Insta: @lorainefaithh 🌹

[catsofcalifornia]

Paw Paw Blu from Humane Society of the North Bay in Vallejo, California

Click here for more information about adoption and other ways to help!

Click here for a link to Humane Society of the North Bay's main website.

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[greendayauthority]

On 17 October 1987, Green Day (as Sweet Children) played their first show at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, CA, where Billie Joe's mum Ollie worked as a waitress. The small audience was impressed enough to invite them back.

The diner has since been demolished and replaced with a Starbucks (pictured below).

For more information, check out GDA's Green Day landmarks tour.

[transatlanticjanet]

I have been working on this guy this week. He's mostly done I think. I may write a longer post about it because he's one of the minis included with the Squidmar paint set a friend gave me for Christmas. Somebody out there looking for impressions of the paints/minis might find that helpful before splashing out.

[realmadridfamily]

Maria Delgado 🤎

[tinypaintedpeople]

28mm miniature from the Doctor Who episode, "The Robots Of Death". This is a VOC Android hand painted by me using paints from Vallejo, Citadel, and Reaper. Basing used from Huge Miniatures, Mini Grounds, and Gale Force 9. Miniature by Black Tree Design.

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[gaertan]

Jaws of itzl WIP

For something a bit different... started painting the Jaws of itzl warhammer underworlds squad! (from embergard). Still a lot of work left to do but they're starting to come together

[willowwind78]

What Did You Do Today?

Miniature painting humor:

What did you do today?

I washed an elephant.

[mareislandfoundation]

Raw Courage

Christmas Day 1941 Seaman First Class Donald Stratton arrived at the Mare Island Hospital with life threating burns over much of his body. A little over two weeks before he was trapped with six shipmates high above the main deck on the sky control platform of the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39). A surprise attack by aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy had turned the battleship into a burning hell on earth from which there could be no escape. As he told the story "A bomb blew up the forward magazine of the USS Arizona and the ship was engulfed in flames. I and five others were located on the anti-aircraft gun director’s platform above the bridge when the forward powder magazine blew. All of us were badly burned. I was burned over 80% of my body. At that point, the only possibility to evacuate the ship was to dive in the water, which was 80 feet below and was fully engulfed in flame. That was not an option for survival.”

The United States was at peace as earlier when General Quarters sounded aboard the USS Arizona while moored at the huge naval base at Pearl Harbor.   Japanese planes had just been sighted bombing nearby Ford Island. Hearing the alarm, Seaman Stratton rushed to his battle station as a sight setter in the Port Anti-Aircraft fire director. Within minutes of his arrival at his battle station a Japanese high-altitude bomber dropped an armor piercing bomb that tore through the deck of the ship and ignited a million pounds of explosive, and thousands of gallons of aviation gas and fuel oil. The massive explosion completely enveloped Stratton’s battle station as the ship settled to the bottom of the harbor, her back broken and her sides blown out. Trapped above the flaming wreckage Stratton and six others were saved when another sailor, Joe George, aboard the repair ship USS Vestal that was moored alongside the Arizona acted. Despite direct orders Joe George threw the men a line and refused to cut it until the men made it to safety. Stratton and five other survivors from the sky control platform managed to make it over the flaming seas surrounding the burning hulk of the Arizona to the deck of the Vestal by climbing hand over hand down the line as the Japanese continued to attack.

The burns on Stratton’s arms were so bad that his skin sloughed off as he worked his way down the line to the Vestal. With burns over much of his body he was taken to the Naval Hospital at Pearl which was overwhelmed with patients. The decision was made to evacuate some of the patients to the mainland thus Seaman Stratton and 196 other seriously wounded sailors and Marines were transported on the blacked-out transport USS Scott arriving at the Mare Island Hospital on Christmas Day 1941. Seaman Stratton was successfully treated at Mare Island with what were then innovative burn treatments for several months until he was transferred to Corona, California for a convalescence. Due to the severity of the damage to his arm and leg he was medically discharged in September 1942. Unbelievably, when his injuries allowed, Donald Stratton re-enlisted in the Navy and went aboard the destroyer USS Stack at Naval Station Treasure Island in 1944. Aboard the Stack Seaman Stratton turned the tables on the enemy as he and the Stack participated in the invasions of New Guinea, Halmahera, Leyte, Luzon and Okinawa.

After the war Stratton took up the cause to secure a posthumous medal for Joe George, the sailor from the Vestal who helped rescue the six men from the sky control platform. Joe George was never recognized for his role in saving the men because he disobeyed a direct order in not cutting the line to the Arizona until Seaman Stratton and five others had made it across. Lest you think the Navy was being too cold-hearted in denying recognition for Joe George, the Vestal was at risk from the ongoing explosions and fires from USS Arizona as well as the ongoing attack. Vestal had been hit with two bombs and was sinking when Joe George was ordered to cut the line. The fact is, Vestal could likely have pulled away snapping the line, but the site of those desperate men likely influenced more than just Joe George on that awful day. Despite the circumstances, in 2017 the US Navy acceded to Donald Stratton’s persistence and posthumously awarded Joe George the Bronze Medal for Valor.

Dennis Kelly

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[carbone14]

Le croiseur lourd USS Chicago (CA-29) - Mare Island Naval Shipyard – Vallejo – Californie – Avril 1931