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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #285 on: February 21, 2020, 01:52:40 PM »
Remember an old bloke on our road in the mid 70s. He always used to stand at the bottom of our path, one hand behind his back, for a bit looking in our window. I thought he was trying to spot the wife, who'd got the habit of wandering round the front room in the nip!
I saw this old bloke and two of his mates in the boozer one afternoon. After a couple of hours the old fellow and one of the mates left. The one left had a mangled eye and I mentioned, his randy old goat of a mate, leching after Our Gert. He told me that he was 'the lad' out of the three of them, that he stopped in his walk to the pub every thirty yards or so to get his breath because his lungs had been wrecked by a Jerry gas attack in WW1. The hand behind his back was holding his false teeth, he put them in just before entering the pub. This other old bloke related how he'd been hit in the eye by shrapnel and blinded. I said the, third member must have been the lucky one as he looked OK. No, said the old man, the Hun had done for his mind, and he was the worst of the lot. I saw the three WW1 soldiers have their afternoon pints for several years, kept a respectful distance from them, and we never spoke again.
How I wish I'd known then wot age's taught me know, I'd have coaxed every tale out of them!

 





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Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #286 on: February 21, 2020, 02:58:44 PM »
Nice one. It always pays to remember that everyone you ever met, has had their own life, and their own story.
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Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #287 on: February 26, 2020, 01:06:15 PM »
Got the Jerrys a tank as well...


Offline commissarmoody

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #288 on: February 26, 2020, 02:42:55 PM »
A nice looking litte tank at that.
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Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #289 on: February 26, 2020, 02:48:33 PM »
Which model is this? I have a resin pz IV that I'm not sure of the provenance but that looks like a plastic model (Rubicon?)
« Last Edit: February 26, 2020, 02:54:24 PM by Shahbahraz »

Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #290 on: February 26, 2020, 04:09:44 PM »
It's the Bolt Action plastic kit (PANZER IV AUSF. F1/G/H). Thought it would go well with the Churchill kit I did previously.





« Last Edit: February 26, 2020, 04:11:24 PM by Ash »

Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #291 on: February 26, 2020, 07:52:37 PM »
That's turned out well. There have been plenty of criticisms  of the BA kit, but that looks the business. I do think the turret schurzen are meant to be fully enclosed though, without the gap at the rear.

Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #292 on: February 26, 2020, 08:20:38 PM »
That's turned out well. There have been plenty of criticisms  of the BA kit, but that looks the business. I do think the turret schurzen are meant to be fully enclosed though, without the gap at the rear.

Not the best fitting thing. It very nearly met with an accident...
I was tempted to bin all the chunky attachment parts and replace with something else

Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #293 on: February 27, 2020, 12:13:17 AM »
Not the best fitting thing. It very nearly met with an accident...
I was tempted to bin all the chunky attachment parts and replace with something else

I hear you, I was given my resin Pz IV that had been put together by a very inexperienced modeller, and had to disassemble and rebuild. With resin, it wasn't easy. Schurzen are the work of the devil.

Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #294 on: February 27, 2020, 12:18:24 AM »
I like the damage to the Schürzen! I cut away a few of the bits on mine to emulate wear and tear and such as well. The plastic kit is nice, but there are some points that would need adressing if and when it will be remade.

Going past that, the paintjob and weathering is great, I like it!  :D
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Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #295 on: February 27, 2020, 12:22:03 AM »
I like the damage to the Schürzen! I cut away a few of the bits on mine to emulate wear and tear and such as well. The plastic kit is nice, but there are some points that would need adressing if and when it will be remade.

Going past that, the paintjob and weathering is great, I like it!  :D

Just buy the more recent Rubicon kit. I want one of their Pz IV J to do a late war force.

Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #296 on: February 27, 2020, 08:32:57 AM »
Must say I hadn't realised that the back part of the turret Schürzen was suppossed to be all one piece until Shahbahraz pointed it out.
I ended up painted all the turret bits separately prior to gluing; if I was to do it over I'd glue the Schürzen together and cover the gap/whole back part with some thin styrene, then paint it as one piece.
Thanks Shahbahraz, best way to learn is others with more knowledge sharing the info. Cheers.

Here's the 251 I got from Empress:




« Last Edit: February 27, 2020, 08:40:08 AM by Ash »

Offline Shahbahraz

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #297 on: February 27, 2020, 09:01:03 AM »
That's come out nicely, the weathering and mud looks really good for late 44, early 45.

I confess, most of my armour is pretty 'clean' as it was primarily intended for Normandy and Market Garden, but I have been really tempted to do 'winter' forces using Empress Miniatures. I blame you :)  It would just mean a change of palette, new terrain, etc..   maybe next year.

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #298 on: February 27, 2020, 12:25:06 PM »
Sadly I can not see the 251. Was there supposed to be a picture?

Offline Ash

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Re: 28mm late war British infantry
« Reply #299 on: February 27, 2020, 03:55:17 PM »
Sadly I can not see the 251. Was there supposed to be a picture?

That's odd, should show up.
Here's a group shot:


 

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