Rapid Fire! NW Europe 44/45 - 101st US Airborne - New C-47 and Waco

 

Some years ago I bought an old 1960 Airfix C-47 from a guy that sells and collect second-hand toys. The kit was complete and the figures showed clearly its age as they were mostly blobs of plastic. The model kit even so is not bad and was glued very quickly as I discarded all interior. 

The windshield was lost so I used electric glue to fill the space and that shows :) But frankly I know you are not looking at that but your attention was caught by the beautiful laidy, as Bertorelli would say, taking her panties and saying "Com´in". I used the C-47 "Steppin´out" as inspiration but changed the name and the "6N" is also my invention. Try to guess what it means...

The place from where the asspiration... sorry, the inspiration came. 

Only after painting it I realised that the paratrooper is a British one as shown by the shorter boots and the type of helmet. Even so as its not a very detailed character it makes a passable US paratrooper. The open door is again electric glue which hides partially the exiting figure. 

The Waco glider is Italeri and some details were not glued as I want to make a number of them in wood and Blueboard using this one as template. 

At the moment the US airborne fleet counts with one Airfix C-47 and one Italeri C-47 and Waco but more Waco will be added soon. 

Next. Pine trees for the Ardennes or Hungarian cavalry for Mohacs. 

Rapid Fire! NW Europe 44/45 - 101st US Airborne - 3rd battalion done and 501st PIR finished

These ones were black primed for some months and were quickly finished upon the arrival of the latest RFR The Road to Carentan booklet from Masters Colin and Richard. In this batch I added some cute resin prints offered by Pedro Pato of MiniGeneral 3d. The rank and file are the usual Revell and Esci figures as I´m out of SHQ minis. 

Three resin printed Cushman scooters are a beauty with all being different. One will go to each battalion for liaison purposes or, if not necessary, to look good on the table. 

The 3d resin Pack 75mm gun comes with three beautiful figures. 

The 3d resin 57mm AT gun comes with three other lovely  crew, again all different. Only one gun is missing to complete the Para AT battalion as this one is the fifth 57mm of this group. 

The Bazookas are Hasegawa and Revell (the closest one). The No2 are Revell with repositioned M1 carbines and Hasegawa Bazooka rounds. 

Again the Revell tripods of the 30. cals. were turned into bipods with added plastic stocks. 

Together with the OP stand the radio was added to the back of the Thompson armed figure. 

The 81mm mortar and main operator comes from Esci US infantry. With some extra GreenStuff on the uniform and equipment he could join the airborne. The 60mm mortar is made of pieces of plastic. 

Next: more aircraft for the US airborne.