Hold Until Relieved. Hold Until Relieved.
Heavy Metal!
So first point of business, I thought I’d start on the metal minis. This consists of Maj. John Howard, an MG42 team and a KwK 39 anti-tank gun.
To be honest the MG team was a pain in the *** to put together. I had to bend the tripod into shape a couple of times to get it to sit right and to fit into the model. Eventually after trying to glue it to the base I had to bend it one more time and the tripod support broke off. So I had to glue that back on, let it cure – then try to glue the gun in place then try and put the tripod into place on the base. Eventually I think I got everything the way I wanted but it was a bit of a pain.
The anti-tank gun was a bit more straightforward to build – but I made a bit of a mistake at the start – by force of habit I glued the support crew to their own bases – Then I realised I wanted the gun and crew to fit into the supplied emplacement – I’ll probably glue them in there permanently I think – but when they’re on bases they don’t fit so it was back out with the clippers, knife and file to remove the bases.
Final metal piece was Maj. Howard. Not much needing done here – just his arm glued on.
I primed all the German minis in Army Painter Uniform Grey and Howard in AP Army Green.
@marcuslamb – Great timing on this project – you should be ready to go for 75th Anniversary of this battle – because I have no illusions about how much work will be going into this. 😀
Damn @oriskany!! I’d planned on giving myself a full year knowing how slow at building and painting I am! But now that you mention it that sounds like a brilliant deadline to stretch for. Could even see about taking it up to the Visitor centre or at the very least the local club for a game on the anniversary!
Damn you! – you’ve just pushed my schedule forward 6 months!! ?
I regret nothing, @marcuslamb 😀 I’m sure plenty of people will be talking and featuring 75th Anniversary D-Day Project this summer. It might be time for another “Worldwide D-Day Challenge” type campaign like we had back in 2015.
Sounds like a great plan!
Yeah, built the german MG team last month myself… was an interesting time 🙂