More for my Desert Brits – a second King Force Churchill
tank and an RAF Hurricane Mk iiB (This one sports Machine Guns and Bombs
ingame, but I left the bombs off the model as I felt they made it look too
clunky.).
The plane was loads of fun to paint and took me far less time than I’d at first
anticipated. The only time swallowing aspect of it all were the decals. They were
obviously quite old and so took yonks to lift off from the paper. Regardless,
they went on well and after a coat of first gloss, then matt varnish, I have my
air cover.
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| Painted the canopy-glass up to match the windows and lights of the rest of the force. I think the light blue makes for a good spot colour on the desert browns and tans. |
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| The Hurricane certainly struts an impressive sleek profile. |
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| Ready to rake infantry positions with those MG's! |
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| Now I'm really gunning to pick up a Spitfire in the same scale! |
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| Not sure the camo scheme is historic, but it'll do. |
The Churchill is more of the same from my last post, except
this one has different stowage across it’s rear quarters. Again, fun to paint
and only the weathering to be done that I’ll get to once all three tanks are
finished.
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| Dust Dodger on this one looks better than the previous. |
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| The blue/black breath mint tin that I had been using to prop my mini's upon for pictures has perished. Instead, a static grass container has stepped up to fill the void. Interesting eh? |
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| Am super excited to get to field these in game! |
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| Churchill's rump. So to speak. |
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| An idea of what exactly I added. This one is stowage-light but I think still looks good. |
After I finished up the Hurricane, I then went on to start on the Heavy Machine Gun platoon for my desert Brits. Not much to show so far, just helmets, boots and socks done so far, but I hope to have these boys finished up (Along with their truck transports) by the weekend.