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pmskaar · Post by **pmskaar** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:34 pm

Great looking stuff there, Mk1! I plan to go back and add some crew figures to the Marder IIs I completed last year.

As I mentioned, I have a good number of U.S. tank destroyers as well as some British tank destroyers. When I get around to painting these I will be adding crews.

The standing guy with the Binoculars which comes with the U.S. seated infantry is a great vehicle commander.

Pete

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:00 pm

Wow Mark! Your work is always amazing! The dudes in your vehicles look great! is the baggage on the outside of the TD something you added? I like it!

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:34 am

Thanks for the kind words, Pete.

pmskaar wrote: The standing guy with the Binoculars which comes with the U.S. seated infantry is a great vehicle commander.

It may well be that the figures came from the US seated infantry packs. Once they go into the extras bin the sourcing becomes harder to track. I did give some thought to putting the .30cal MG gunners from the seated infantry packs into a couple of my TDs. It was reasonably common by late war for TD crews to weld a pivot-mount for an M1919 to the front of their turret roofs, as it was not possible to train the .50cal to the front without getting out of the turret and standing on the rear hull deck, and the TDs had no co-ax or hull MGs to fire over the forward arch.

TD branch had never planned for TDs to be used as tanks (to engage infantry or other soft targets), and so had only provided for an AT gun and an AAMG for self-protection. But commanders in combat zones had different ideas about leaving such useful assets idle while waiting for an enemy armored breakthrough that only really happened twice in the whole war (in US Army AOs).

redleg wrote: is the baggage on the outside of the TD something you added?

Also thank you for the kind words, redleg.

I did add a significant quantity of baggage and crates to the TDs. I described it a bit in the posting of the M10 and M36 TD pics two pages back int his thread.

Most of the soft kit / baggage was casts I bought from a UK vendor. There are a few crates that I kit-bashed up myself on one M10's hull side and another's turret side. The M36s came with crates cast onto the sides of the hulls, so I didn't add any crates to those models, just soft kit on the turrets.

-Mark

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:09 am

Hi Mark,

Great pics. I love the color, spot on! I have difficulty getting that shade.

Love the crewman in the vehicles, it really adds to the realism.

Hopefully, this project can get you jump started into more projects! Lol

Always thought the M8 was an interesting vehicle. Totally being honest, no, I didnâ€™t believe you! Lol Who would honestly deprive themselves of painting crew members and/or infantry? Lol

Great job. Patiently waiting for more pics. lol

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:13 am

Nice work for organization, too.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:54 pm

Mk.1
Fantastic work, creativity you have.

Guroburov · Post by **Guroburov** » Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:09 am

Cool armor.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:07 am

B-70

Aussie APC

M1A2

LeClerc

Stalingrad Grain Elevator

Hummel Fuchs

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:08 am

These pictures from 2016 or before.
Hummv w/drone launch trailer

Counter-battery radar

Sgt. York on Abrams hull in 3-tone NATO, the way it should be.

Panther mine-roller vehicles, 2-man crew or remote controlled.

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Command/control/communication Stryker

Abrams with mine-rollers

FMTVs, custom built flat-bed

Mk.23 with Kit-bash canvas cover
One Mk.23 has 4 axles.

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:38 am

Nice work, Chris!

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:20 am

Finished painting these. The Leopard2A6, CV9040 and CV90 Engineers weâ€™re repainted after the change in Government of the Balzac Republic. As we became member of NATO.

Leopard2A6 on the hunt.

Swedish CV9040 Follow the big cats.

Swedish armor

Swedish Cv9040

Norwegian CV9030

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:40 am

Nice pics Chris. Love the Leopards!

Question... Do you use a top clear coat to seal your paint jobs? Im pressing my forehead to the monitor to see as much as I can. lol

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:43 am

GI,
No, I do not seal it as the paint is all oil based, Model Masters. Are you looking at the last 3-4 pictures vs the others or all of them?
Send PM with your email. I send picts to you directly.

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:02 pm

In my gaming experience, minefields are usually just marked with a paper chit on the table or some such. Mien Panzer even comes with cut-out counters you can use (as your paper chits) to mark the location of your minefields.

Having seen marked and wired minefields used in several game AARs of games in larger scales I felt â€¦ shall I say â€¦ left out.

So I have created a few marked minefields for my gaming terrain.

They were pretty easy to make. I cut out 1 inch by 2 inch (approximately) rectangles of sheet styrene, put some fence posts around the perimeter, put a bit of acrylic gel with earth-tone paint on top, flocked 'em, and ran a thread around the fenceposts.

I did two of the bases with diagonal edges, to provide some level of flexibility. They might go alongside other terrain (like rivers or hills), or they might be put together into a network of fields that provide "access" for infantry patrols to go out, but channel any attack coming in to make it vulnerable to bunching up and flanking / grazing fire.

A simple and quick project, but something I've never had before.

-Mark

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:19 am

Mk.1
Excellent mine fields!

CV9040

Night

Italian Freccia IFV in 3-tone NATO

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