Sooo, I got these 4 diecast Churchill tanks from my wargaming buddy Peter. They are spot on 1/87 which is a scale we don't game in but they are such nice models (well the top halves are, I am coming to that) that I wanted to do something with them.
Although it had rubber tracks the running gear and wheels were very toy like and not accurate at all for a Churchill. So I took them apart and put all the metal parts in the dip to clean them.
I decided that I would just use the upper hulls and hit on the idea of a sort of drive in bunker constructed of logs and earth where only the turret would be showing. I am sure this sort of thing must have existed, maybe I have seen it in a film somewhere.
Anyway I don't want to spend a lot of effort on these so here is what I have done on the first one so far:
Chopped the locating lugs off the bottom so they sit flat and cut some thick card bases 80mm x 120mm
Constructed the logs from barbecue skewers stuck with hot glue gun
Made it quite snug. With the bottom painted in dark shades I hope it will not be obvious that there is no lower hull.
Rough cut up some foam from an old camping sleep mat to bulk up the sides
Covered it with filler.
That is as far as I have got so far. 40 minutes work .
Earth banks will be textured and grass added and a row of sandbags or two along the top of the logs. Or I could do it snowy? For some reason this is making me think of Korea , or being dug in on the banks of the Rhine in miserable weather in winter 44-45....
Comments welcome.