K47 Grenadier Sections with lightning effect
All models built now
All the models are done now.
I made the grenade rifles by clipping off the very end of the barrels and then gluing on some short lengths of plastic cylinders that I found in my bits box (I think it was a PIAT ammo piece).
The tesla rifles didn’t work very well with the arms in the airborne sprue, but the normal British infantry sprue has weapons and arms separate so I had loads of arms in my bits box. I mounted the rifles on right arms easily enough but then had to reposition left arms and fill the gaps with liquid greenstuff to make them work. The tesla rifles also got in the way of some of the heads so more liquid greenstuff was needed to fill holes in the necks.
There are no assault rifles in either the British infantry of British Airborne sprues so I have just used SMG’s. Normally I paint my rifles brown and my SMG’s black, so I’ll paint my “SMG” assault rifles brown to distinguish them from true SMG’s and I should be ok. A also changed the composition of this Grenadier unit slightly as there is no point giving the Tesla rifle loaders assault rifles as they should never fire them. This meant I could give them rifles and Molotov’s to make sure I had at least a couple of models with anti-tank grenades showing.
I’ve also attached pre-cut magnetic sheet discs to the bases so the next step is to research/decide on the colour scheme for British Airborne and Grenadier sections from 1947 so I can undercoat the models appropriately.
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