Rapid Fire! Italeri 1/72nd scale MKI Horsas

 

These three were on the stash for a long time. The original idea was to have three to MKI standards, one per battalion, in order to transport the men of the Glider Regiment of an Airborne division and three other to MKII standards for the transport of heavy material like jeeps and 6 pdr AT guns. Like these the transport for figures is done. In fact, I was tempted to have the Britannia resin shorter versions instead to these much bigger ones. In the end I prefered these as they are more realistic. The models were quickly assembled without seats and cockpit details which makes the assembly pretty straight forward. The absence of the landing gear in two of the three models also helps as finding the right balance for them is probably the most time consuming part of building these Italeri models. 

So, one in pristine landing condition was built and painted ...

Another one so, so ...

And another one in very bad shape...

Plenty of scattered pieces from the landing gear were liberally spread throughout the base. 

Obviously these scattered pieces should be hundred of meters to the beggining place of the (crash) landing but the basing doesn´t allow it :) 

Due to the rush on making a 28mm Perry stand with Napoleon on it, and only when finishing the last Horsa I then realised that all fuselages were glued in the oposite way which makes the wings being placed some 2/3 cm to the front of the glider. 'Experienced modeller', sure... 

Some sprue plastic pieces were glued inside the broken wings for it to look like broken structures. 

Next:  a video on the 28mm French waterloo army or the German figures for Omaha.