TDs all over the workbench....
I really was hoping to get them done in time for Memorial Day. My father, gone now for more than 25 years, served in tank destroyers in WW2, and I thought it might be a nice remembrance to get a TD unit up on Memorial Day. But alas, it was not to be.
However, I now have at least some of them done. So I present my lovely GHQ M36s, as a preview to when I have the full TD company completed.
I put two crewmen in each turret as: 1) the gunner would likely have been so low in the turret as not to be seen, and 2) I'm lazy and not putting 3 in was easier.
The crew figures are GHQ standing gun crews, or kneeling gun crews from a UK vendor, supplemented by a few standing soldiers from the extras bin, and a few two-together mortar crew figures from GHQ en bloc style support weapons packs.
I have some old M36B1s (the M36 turret mounted on an M4A3 Sherman hull), but I really don't see them getting much use. So these are likely to become a core part of my anti-armor capabilities for any ETO battles after the Normandy campaign.
The M36s come with a pretty good bit of detailing on the hulls already. Crates and growsers on the sides, a towing cable strung front-to-back along one side of the hull, and a full set of tanker's tools on the rear hull. Altogether a very nice model.
Each of the turrets got at least one, and some got two various stowage items. This was my first time using vendor-made castings for external stowage. I'm not sure it's any easier than the rolled foil approach I took for my Pershings a few months ago. But it does make it possible to have more variety in the stowage.
Now if we could just find some big kitties to beat up on ....
-Mark
Charlie don't surf!
