As you can see I`m making sure my British 11th
Armoured have an answer to the Panzer Lehr
oncoming onslaught. M10`s with 17pdrs plus
a few extra bits including another Hellcat and
a Sexton.
The crews are still work in progress. Not long
until finished.
This is by far my favourite American tank destroyer,
its all about speed,speed and more speed.
60mph of speed to be exact with a 76mm cannon and
next to nothing armour. So its a serious case of fire
and run away. Plus you need to bring a hat as a roof is
not included !
Saying that is was cheap to make and could penetrate 88mm
of armour at 2000m,so look out Panzer IV`s.
This is Battlefront`s model and in my opinion the best 15mm
M18 on the market. Its in basic American markings(no individual
markings) and could be found stalking the Normandy countryside.
Enjoy 🙂
There is light at the end of the tunnel 🙂
Finally nearly finished some of the detail including an
orchard, most of the Normandy farm, telegraph poles and bits.
I will let the pictures do the talking.
Click on any picture for a larger image.
The farm house(don’t worry about the chimney):
Rear view of a stable :
A barn:
Telegraph poles in production :
An orchard:
More farm buildings unfinished :
Stay tuned folks 🙂
Some support weapons for my confident,trained
British Rifle Platoon. Only thing that troubled
me was the ammo coming from the Vickers to the
ammo feed guy next to him. I ended up having to
cut the ammo belt to get the fit just right and
its extremely fiddly, which means you are going
to get super glue stuck to your fingers. Apart
from that another quality bit of kit from
Battlefront. Saying that it doesn’t justify
your recent price rise especially in the light
of lots of other 15mm manufacturers now making
equally quality kits and way cheaper prices.
Click on any picture to enlarge 🙂
Oh also finished another two 6pdrs to add to my
anti tank bunch 🙂
Just got an email from the NOVA OCF raffle saying I
have won the Flames Of War army and KR Multicase 🙂
THE PANZER LEHR WESTERN FRONT ARMY:Raising funds for Wounded Warrior Project
This enormous WWI Flames of War army was created by Steve McCuen who joined forces with Eric FontaineÕs charityFacebook project. FoWÕs company, Battlefront, has been providing support, encouraging players to purchase raffle tickets. The FoW community has been responding with great enthusiasm. This is a ready for battle starter army like no other!
Best bit of luck I`ve had in ages.
I hope they raised a huge amount of money 🙂
This is just an update so please don’t get hung
up on the colours as I know they are not quite
correct. The colours I`m talking about are the
various shades of green on the board in the pictures.
I`m still very much in the building up the foliage stage
of things and I intend to correct some of the brighter
colours(eg bright green moss) by toning them down with an
airbrush.
Click on a picture to enlarge:
I plan for telegraph poles, road signs, fences, gates and
anything else you care to mention.
I am aiming to get a main road on the other two boards
running parallel and large a farm by http://www.lasermodellbau.de
A word on some of the scenic material being used. I`m
loving using the tall grass by Noch and the large, rough,
open area is a job lot of Model-Scene scree.
Next step is to get some trees into that bocage.
Until next time 🙂
Next stage was a coat of masonry paint over all
the styrene. This seals the styrene and gives a bit
of texture.
Just click on a picture to get a bigger image.
I followed up the masonry coat with a coat of brown
household paint. The brown will act as the base, earth
coat. Please note I get all my paints from my local DIY
store and they always have a shelf with reduced price paints
on them. Just imagine the amount of people who bring paint
back because its not the exact colour which is great for
modellers as it means bargain low price paint 🙂
You have probably noticed some ready made roads in the
photos. They are made by Fatfrank(ebay seller name) and I
have had them in a box for over a year ,just waiting to be
used on such a project. Saying that I`m not sure if they look
the part ?
Next I started adding scenic materials to build up the
countryside look. This is going to time so I will start
on the hedge bases first and then spread out.
As I mentioned early days with the scenic build up
but I have started.
More soon 🙂
Slow progress on the boards but progress is
being made.
Ok so next thing I did was mark up with a big
red felt tip pen a general outline of where I
wanted everything to go.
Click on a picture to enlarge:
As you can see I had some help from a passing
Panther tank.
Then I started scraping out the styrene road
route using a screwdriver and sharp knife. I
also put down a tile size layer of styrene to
help build up the scenery.
The tile layer is built up using more tile
where required and is stuck down again with PVA glue.
The cocktail sticks are used to temporarily hold things
in place while the glue sticks.
The next part of the plan is the foundation for
the bocage hedges. As far as I`m concerned bocage
has just as much tree in it as hedge. So I`m using
twigs as trees and sticking them with glue into the
hedge lines. They will help the horsehair bocage stay
in place.
Some of you have probably noticed that my boards
have a permanent look about them. The plan is to make
the terrain 50/50(half fixed/half moveable).
Anyway that’s it so far.
I needed something to haul my anti tank guns
and the Loyd Carrier was the answer. These are
Battlefront models and very simple to paint up and
only needed a slight modification here and there just
so they didn’t all look exactly the same. I have added a
few extra troops as well. Once again its 11th Armoured
colours.
Click on a picture to get a bigger picture:
Cheap to make, easy and light to tow and quick
to set up. Whats more the 6pdr could penetrate 68mm
of armour at 1000 yards, so good enough to deal with
Panzer IV`s.
These are once again Battlefront models and as you can
see I have only managed to complete two so far. I also need
a command team to go with them.
Usually towed into battle by a Loyd carrier 🙂
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