75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Army Build)
A Company of Churchills
With the chipping completed and some of the Churchills adorned with branches, I need to apply the mud. I’ve ground up some of the finest Mid Sussex Low Wealden dried mud in my pestle and mortar (see below) and mixed it up with some PVA. This just gets dabbed over where you would expect mud to land.
And then everything gets a Matt varnish to finish it off. Here’s the finished models. We have,
3 Universal Carriers with 2 MGs
3 Universal Carriers with .50 Cal MG
2 Churchill V with the 95mm Howitzer
3 Churchill III with the 6pdr gun
3 Churchill VII
7 Churchill IV with the 75mm
And a selection of turrets that can be swapped in to make up another couple of Mk VII and Mk IV
Mk V
Rear of the Mk V with the Regimental markings
Mk III
Mk VII
Mk IV
The whole company
That’s a lot of finished models, well done!
Thanks. This one was a bit of a slog. I’ve painted enough olive drab for a while….
I don’t recommend the lichen branches, a couple have already fallen off and needed to be reattached.
Have a couple of things I might try. I’ll let you know if any of them are any good!