Author Topic: 15cm sFH Lorraines, 21st PD finished (Read 105639 times)

Basementboy · « **Reply #750 on:** April 20, 2024, 10:46:12 PM »

You don’t muck about do you?

It’d take me forever to crack on with all that- hats off to you

Gunner Dunbar · « **Reply #751 on:** April 21, 2024, 06:58:35 AM »

Quote from: Basementboy on April 20, 2024, 10:46:12 PM

You don’t muck about do you?
It’d take me forever to crack on with all that- hats off to you

Cheers

Hi guys

10cm K18 Guns and Laffly S35t artillery tractors for the panzer artillery regiment 155, 21st PD finished, guns and trucks are 3D printed, crews are a mix of AB and Simon’s Soldiers, up next a couple of 15cm sFH 13 auf Lorraines and Artillery observer vehicles, after that I will finish off a few odds and ends, but I’m starting to think about what combat element I want to start next, what do you think I should do? tanks (PzIII/IVs) of the 1st Abt of the 22nd Pz regt, Sdkfz 250 half tracks of the Pz recon Abt 21, or the infantry of 2nd Abt (motorised) of the 125 Pz Gren Regt?
https://gunnerswargamming.blogspot.com/2024/04/guns-for-panzer-artillery-regiment-155.html

fred · « **Reply #752 on:** April 21, 2024, 07:36:37 AM »

More rapid progress

I’d probably go for some tanks next

Freddy · « **Reply #753 on:** April 21, 2024, 11:51:50 AM »

That is an impressive artillery unit!

Gunner Dunbar · « **Reply #754 on:** April 22, 2024, 10:25:06 AM »

Hi guys

2 x 15cm sFH Lorraine SPGs and 2 x Lorraine artillery observer vehicles of the 155 Pz artillery regt finished, these guns will be attached to the 192nd mechanised Pz Grenadier battalion.

I have decided to do the Panzers of the 22nd Panzer regt next, despite being well know as a 3D printer, I have a background as a plastic modeller and have quite a large stash of 1/72 kits, not sure how many exactly, but it would have to be 600+, a lot of really nice kits, and it’s a shame to leave them unbuilt, so I have decided to use plastics for these Pz IVs, after spending an hour or so going through the stash I’ve found 4 x Revell Pz IVHs and a Hasegawa Pz IVH unbuilt, and these 5 shelf queens, 2 x Italeri Hs, 2 x PSC Hs and a PSC D/C, I had forgotten about these 5 shelf queens, built maybe 15 years ago, I need 9 x Pz IVHs and a Pz IIIL (I have a built one ready to go) for my plans, so it’s actually a perfect number, I was going to do the vehicles of the 1st company, 1st battalion, however the turret numbers of the shelf queens are for the 3rd and 5th company. The turret numbers should also be yellow, also I need to replace the lost commanders hatches on the Italeri kits, and add turret skirts to the PSC kits, so I’m left with the question do I try to save the paint jobs of these, or strip them and start over? I quite like the paint jobs they have, especially the PSC kits, but they will look weird if I make turret skirts and paint those separately, then there’s the Pz IV D/C, I’ve seen pics of a Pz IVC attributed to the 21st, I don’t know to much about that tank, and will have to research it, but it had a dark yellow and green camo scheme, so I’d have to repaint that one, I do have a couple of unbuilt mirage Pz IVDs I could use if I really want to add a short barrelled Pz IV, I’m also considering 3D printing the running gear for the Pz IVHs, building the running gear is the most time consuming part of a tank, so it may be a good compromise, and the details of the STL I have are quite nice and a big step up from the PSC tracks, lastly, there is a misconception that the 21st used French tanks during the battle of D-Day, but the 21st had been refitted with Pz IVs by D-Day, however, for interest and fun purposes I will be adding a couple of French tanks, maybe just an RPM H39 and a Somua S35 which I have plenty of.
https://gunnerswargamming.blogspot.com/2024/04/15cm-sfh-lorraines-finished.html