RIP SHEP

[Belugawrx]

RIP SHEP
I met Shepard Paine when my father opened "The Olde Soldier" shop in St. Catharines, Ontario.
I was cleaning windows/display cases, and oggling the tamiya,verlinden, squadron, ....etc, at 11
Shep walks in the door after I look at his halftrack with leaping...yep 'leaping' figures" in a mag. .....
He was there to show my Dad his new line of Casted figures,...Valiant Miniatures
I racked his brain for a good 35-40 mins. then, coffee was over and, I had to get back to cleaning,....
He will be remembered and missed,.....and copied, for ever.
Cheers to Shep

[Belugawrx]

This stuff

[blackbeard]

that looks fantastic almost like it was the real thing and real people riding on it

[detailstymied]

set the bar, he did

[cobraman]

The man knew his way around a diorama. Didn't he do the ones for the Monogram kits ?

[Jim B]

Very sad news. I read his books constantly back in the 1980s. Never actually built anything, but made a lot of plans. He will be missed.

Yes, he did most of the diorama work for Monogram models.

[DanielG]

The most effective thing that he did in this dio is to put the vehicle IN the dio not on it! Everything follows from that.

[darthsideous]

Sorry to hear of this loss.