Saturday 25 December 2021

Rapid Fire! in 20mm. Filling gaps in WW2 - part 5



No, not  a fan of Christmas. Of course we had the family reunions, the gifts for the younger and older ones and never ending food. Love to be with my people but frankly hate Christmas and I´m always dying for it to pass. One day if the Christmas message extends into the full year with visible results of world wide happiness and all kids have the one toy they want,  maybe I´ll start to like it.  

 Last few days after meetings allowed me to paint these amazing Sdkfz 10 designed by Mário Laranja and printed in resin. Also added were two die-cast German aircraft. 


One of them went to the Blitzkrieg/Barbarossa period to be coupled with a number of the from BPM. Once again one piece vehicles which are a pleasure to paint as they are crammed with detail. 


More fine detail to the rear. 


How hooks, tools, mirrors, etc are made in one piece is for me a mystery but the end result is something great. 


These four are joining the DAK. No specific unit so they can be used by several of them. Most of the figures are PSC heads on top of Milliput torsos. 


Another group was painted with late war colors and crewed with the excellent Simon Soldiers figures winter passengers. 


One more Luppa aircraft came out in 1/72 scale, this time a ME 110 NachtJäger. 


This one is an Altaya model that lived its last few years inside the transparent plastic, an Henschel HS 129. In both aircraft the usual and simple painting of the canopy interior makes it ready for action. 


Next: The 7th infantry battalion for the French 1940 DI/DIM. 

4 comments:

  1. I must say I'm not a big fan of Xmas these days, now that our kids are young adults. Also with Covid and all the lockdowns, it really hasn't felt that fun at all this year! Anyway, superb models and painting as always JP:)

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  2. Thanks Steve. My thing with Christmas is very old from the days of going to downtown to toy shops here in Coimbra as a kid and finding other kids that could just stare at the shop windows.

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