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Offline Fitz

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Carriers Galore! (15mm)
« on: September 01, 2017, 05:56:02 AM »


A few years ago I bought a whole lot of 15mm Universal Carriers at the Christchurch Wargaming Club's annual bring-&-buy. They were very cheap; I think they cost me about a buck each. There were 18 of them, but one of them fell casualty to an over-enthusiastic paint-baking experiment, so now there are 17.

I painted up the three you see in the centre foreground (with the BEF's white square recognition patch) pretty much straight away. At that time I was using the wrong base colour for British equipment; from memory it was Vallejo Russian Uniform, which is much too green.

I finally got around to finishing off the remainder in plain overall Khaki Green #3 with no disruptive Dark Green #4 overlay, mainly because I wanted to get them out in a hurry. If I get the urge, I may go back and add the disruptive pattern later.

Out in front of the column are my 3d-printed Carden-Loyd MG Carriers, in all their clanking obsolescent glory. I rather doubt there were any with the BEF, but there were a few (briefly) recalled to increasingly rattly service back in England after the enormous equipment losses of Dunkirk.

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Carriers Galore! (15mm)
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2017, 05:58:14 AM »
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Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Carriers Galore! (15mm)
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2017, 08:51:41 AM »
Excellent (as expected).

There have been a couple of threads on the Carden Loyd recently. Nice prints.

I used PSC British Tank spray (a close match to Vallejo Russian Uniform Green) on my British. There was a discussion on the Rubicon forum about a proper British green.

 

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