I told you that I would show you WN71 but I lied. Instead let's see the first Americans of this Omaha series, namely the US engineers.
Most of the engineers material was transported in rubber dinghies. I casted a number of them from the Airfix US Marines box and made these vignettes small enough to go inside the LCM's of the engineers but big enough to be pulled by groups of 4 men.
All plastic boxes of US Infantry were used: Atlantic, Esci, Airfix, Matchbox, etc.
The best positions in my opinion for the task are the grenade throwers, marching guys and those Esci figures of the Iwo Jima set who can be easily converted.
The LCM's are Airfix with added crew from Britannia. Then I only added a small shield to the Browning MG's.
Now the Bangalore torpedoes. The US enginners also carried these torpeoes in order to destroy barbed wire and, hopefully, bunkers.
The figures are conversions from plastics with added pieces of Evergreen rod.
The flamethrowers also acompanied the engineers. The figures are again soft plastics.
'Get out of my way or you'll have a roasted butt!'
Next: WN 71, finally.
Splendid conversions, especially the engineers with dinghies
ReplyDeleteThanks Will. These small conversions are very enjoyable.
DeleteFantastic work - and the first time I think that I've seen landing craft in the proper colour rather than a light grey.
ReplyDeleteThanks Duc. light grey with darker camouflage was in fact the colour of British Lc. But you know probably people know about that and they paint it as British and then use them for both US and Brit.
DeleteGreat! They pull the boats very lifelike.
ReplyDeleteThanks Venechka. A lot of twisting, cutting and heating was required.
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