European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday july 6, 1986 a makes military history come Olive b Joski h Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart when spec. Ronald ". Bugh in knocks nit work for the in. He leaves one army be Hind and goes Home to another. While the a time army consists of average Garden variety american sol Diers. Bigham s nighttime forces have ranged from Napoleonic regiments to German Oft Ceis of world War ii. Hingham. 27. A motion picture Tele vision and video specialist lit the train ing and audio sual support office at Kelly Harracks. Builds military Diora Mas and vignettes in his spare Lime. The dioramas Are three dimensional portrayals of Battles and other military events each hearing an Assembly of miniature figures. Some Are As Large As a Coffee table. The vignettes Are paper wig he is cd versions of dioramas. Con Taining no More than three Model sol Diers and a vehicle. I m a big military history Buff. That was my major at school at Ari Ona said Hingham. Who started building car models about 14 years ago. Then switched to military themes. I can t draw. I can t paint. This is about the Only artistic thing i know How to spec. I Debra Hingham said her husband puts Many hours of research into each design. I used to think he was Era hut he s a real student of she said. Me knows every Little detail lie s the kind of person who plays trivial Pursuit and never gels a ques Tion wrong if it s about Bingham orders most pieces of his characters and vehicles from a Model ing company but other materials Are the fruits of a constant scavenger Hunt. His hillsides Are made of plastic foam papier Maine and paint. His buildings Are spackle covered. Sanded and painted Balsa Wood. He cuts camouflage netting from women s stockings. Tor bailed wire i use a piece of window screen which is real hard to find in he said. Hingham has made More vignettes than dioramas in recent years. They got so expensive. I started making them smaller and he Saiu. Most vignettes require 25 to .10 hours of work although Hingham said he Laboured intermittently Over one for a year. Hingham bases models on popular depictions of War As Well As on War itself. He has made three dimensional duplications of some of cartoonist Bill Mauldin s Willie and Joe drawings from world War ii. Bingham s favorite Era. He is working on a Napoleonic wars military game which will include 2.000 movable soldiers on a 5-by-9-fool ply Wood based playing Board a Minia Ture Battlefield of Shrub Laden Hills and valleys. Bingham has painted about is photos by Joseph Owen spec. 4 Ronald c. Binghan works on miniature Baden Hussar soldiers. Below is another of his creations an israeli tank. I us .100 soldiers so far. Caring the end of a four year army tour Bingham does t plan to take any dioramas Back to the United states when he leaves Germany in August. I give them away he said. You can t ship those things. Nine out of 10 times they fall apart one piece. depicting two world War ii German officers standing by a demolished Brick House is on display at a Hobby museum in Phoenix Ari. Bingham said. He gave his former sergeant major in new Mexico a Vignette As a retirement gift. It portrays two members of the Green berets trudging through an asian swamp. The sergeant major had been a Green Beret in Vietnam so Bingham fashioned one of the Model soldiers to resemble him. Bingham also recently donated a Vignette to a museum in Verdun France commemorating that town s famous Battles. The piece portrays a French Soldier and German Soldier in combat. As evidence of past fighting a Skull protrudes from a Hillside behind them i Don t glamorize War. I like to put a Little death in it Bingham said. Ontario doctors end walkout plan disruption Toronto us l thousands of doctors in Canada s most populous province will end a three week general strike monday but they plan rotating walkouts to continue their fight against a new Law restricting patient fees. The governing Council of the Ontario medical association which called the strike june 12. Voted Friday to end the walkout but to continue disrupting health care on a rotating basis throughout the province of More than 9 million people. The dam. Which represents 15.000 doctors in Ontario did not disclose when rotating strikes would begin or How they would be run. Doctors have closed their private offices cancelled non emergency surgery and shut Down As Many As 17 Hospital emergency wards a Day to protest the Law. Which imposes heavy fines on physicians whose fees exceed those set by pub Lic health insurance. The Oma has not tallied the number of doctors who walked off their jobs and Many returned to work Over the past week As support for the strike declined. While All doctors Are scheduled to re turn to work monday the Oma threat ened to Call another general strike in the fight to overturn or Amend the Law. It had a very draining effect on our members emotionally draining and physically draining and frankly they need to get their batteries said Oma general Secretary de Moran. I would not Rule out another full scale withdrawal of doctors who say the dispute is Over professional Freedom and not Money also have launched a court Challenge and prepared to argue that the Law is unconstitutional. The Ontario Hospital association which represents 220 Public hospitals across the province had urged the Doc tors to return to work. The Law passed in late june by the government of Ontario Premier David Peterson imposes fines of up to $1,000 on doctors who Bill More than fees Cov ered by Public health insurance. Under Ontario s health system Doc tors Bill the health plan directly for fees. But before the Law was passed the patient paid outright if the doctor billed extra or had withdrawn from the plan. The patient was then reimbursed by the government but Only for the set amount. About 5 percent of Ontario s doctors billed extra and 12 percent quit the plan
