This week was the turn of a few bits I had around to be built and painted for the new RF! book. All but one (the Churchill AVRE) are made to fullfil the wishes of Masters Colin and Richard in their new OMG awesome book.
The 152mm Russian guns of Korps Feldt shown on diagram on p.36 are apparently the M1937 (ML-20) model. Also according to the diagram the crew is FJ. Mine are converted Esci and Revell figures with the help of GreenStuff arms. The Esci are particularly suitable as they are mostly in static positions and the new arms holding some shells makes them quite realistic.
The guns are Irregular Miniatures but somehow the models didn't carry the shield and the vertical springs which were easily made in EverGreen styrene.
Here they are ready to unleash ze Trommelfeuer over the 82nd Airborne
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The StugIII with short 75mm gun mentioned in p.22 as reinforcement for the 59th ID was the hardest of this group to build. Its based on the StugIII G from Esci, and it was transformed into an E version. The short 75mm gun came from the Airfix PzIV and a bunch of small parts had to be scratchbuilt like the headlights, the antenna racks, the side boxes and the tall round command turret had to be turned into a square and older one.
With this model I started to use a new mixture of static grass and the results are quite pleasing.
Nigel Maddaford sent me this nice picture of the probable inspiration of Masters Colin and Richard for adding this one to the fight against the 101st Airborne and fortunately looks like an E version due to the longer side boxes.
While talking to Nigel he also pointed this picture of a short 75mm StugIII C/D on Firefly No 8, about the German army in Holland. I also have it and after reading the text, yes, it also could be this older version.
Finally this Matchbox Churchill AVRE is not for Market Garden as the 79th AD wasn´t in Holland by then. I just finished it because I couldn't convert it to none of the Dieppe models. This is my fourth Matchbox Churchill AVRE, the other three are carrying the Girder bridge for D-Day.
The Hessian tape is made of thin stripes of paper and the camouflage nets and foliage are made of blobs of PVA glue mixed with Noch birch leaves.
Next; depends on the mailman but more OMG models most probably.
Excellent mate,
ReplyDeleteI need to add some bits to mine also after looking at the orbats
Cheers
Matt
That is the idea. I have 3 parcels on the way to get them done.
DeleteThats quick work for the new MG book.
ReplyDeleteStill a few to be made. This book forced me to look for models that I had no idea were in OMG.
ReplyDeleteI’m just in awe of your talent... Do you ever get the chance to play with what you make?
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeffers. In fact I never play. Sometimes a few friends drag me to Lisbon or Porto to play some games but what I really like is to build armies and cover everything about a certain period or campaign.
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant..all the stuff I want to do and so well modelled. Particularly like the M10. A friend of mine was an M10 Bty Recce officer (on a motorbike). I'm tryin to make the basic Armourfast one look interesting. Well done with those figures with green stuff arms too. Just brilliant
ReplyDeleteThanks SRD. I have six of those Armourfast M10 for the Americans. They are very nice but they need a few add-ons.
ReplyDeleteExcelente trabalho como sempre.!! Já agora qual o livro RF que te referes. Ab
ReplyDeleteObrigado amigo. É o novo operation market garden. O primeiro acho que por a qq razão não deu para ser reeditado. Então decidiram fazer um novo. Tem as organizações em desenho, novas fotos, novas regras Max o texto das ações é o mesmo. Mesmo assim é muito bom.
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