75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Army Build)
Allied Support
Rather than complete the Semovente M42 75/34’s, I thought I’d add some more to the Allied arsenal in the way of some support units. So I’ve put together 3 Wasp Flame Throwers and 5 15cwt trucks, one of which I’ve converted to a supply truck for the pioneer/engineer platoon I painted up earlier.
Here they are ready for painting.
Painting these is a lot easier than the German stuff, being largely just olive drab. Base coat of olive drab was applied with the airbrush. Once all of the other base colours were down, I’ve applied dip with a brush and then matt varnish.
I’ve kept the windows of the trucks simple and just used periscope from Panzer Aces.
Chipping and mud was applied in the same way as described in this project before. And all done – fairly easy to knock out over a few evenings.
The Wasps came from the PSC box of 9 Universal Carriers, so I still have 6 left to build. But I probably need to get the Semovente finished first, I don’t like having too many unfinished projects lying around.
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