Author Topic: 20mm Rhodesians (Read 108294 times)

von Lucky · « **Reply #315 on:** 05 March 2019, 08:11:24 PM »

BTW - it is already looking like a nice display piece.

juergen c. olk · « **Reply #316 on:** 07 March 2019, 10:29:33 AM »

Love all the detail....would be perfect in a Musuem.

Ash · « **Reply #317 on:** 07 March 2019, 06:16:07 PM »

I'd have to redo it 2'x4' and get the barrels straight...
Still need to go back and trim some of the netting and put some sharper angles in it.

Ash · « **Reply #318 on:** 09 May 2019, 07:35:28 PM »

Quote from: FreakyFenton on 04 March 2019, 01:45:55 AM

who makes the netting?

Sorry mate, completely missed this. The netting was a bit hard to source, I had an off cut of something similar, but had no idea what it was called. Ended up in the haberdashery dept at John Lewis who pointed me in the direction of a kids clothing store. Turns out its the stuff used to make ballet tutus. I found a head piece with a fair amount of material on it and chopped it up. Some sort of nylon material, sprayed it black which helped to stiffen it a bit, tried dry brushing silver on a bit, rubbing graphite on another (didn't even show up) so ended up lightly spraying a sandy tone, then went over it with some thinned down brown oil paint.

Ash · « **Reply #319 on:** 18 May 2019, 07:22:09 PM »

Found another piece at Salute that goes with the little store I bought last year. The two roof pieces are the same size ('ish) so swap quite nicely.

Splod · « **Reply #320 on:** 18 May 2019, 08:42:49 PM »

Fantastic work! Characterful pieces and useful across so many conflicts and locations

Andym · « **Reply #321 on:** 19 May 2019, 08:32:21 PM »

Brilliant! Somehow I totally missed the update with the airfield/fuel dump! That’s an amazing piece!

von Lucky · « **Reply #322 on:** 24 May 2019, 11:34:10 PM »

Aces.

What's next (moar, moar!)?

juergen c. olk · « **Reply #323 on:** 26 May 2019, 09:56:50 PM »

Nice find.

Ash · « **Reply #324 on:** 27 May 2019, 04:17:46 PM »

Thanks guys for all the feedback and encouraging comments. I think I'm sort of nearly finished:

I have completed a full platoon of RAR, 20 SAS, 7 sticks of RLI, 1 stick of RR trackers, 10 PATU, 4 farmers, 6 Intaf & 13 dismounted Selous Scouts along with a load of vehicles that have mounted crew. A fair amount of MPVs and some armoured cars. Could do with a couple of Land Rovers and a Bedford RL, but that's about it. I've done nearly all the aircraft; 2 x Hunter, 2 x Lynx (wheels up & down), a Canberra, an Islander, a Dakota (with 8 Paras in chutes), a Vampire, 2 x Bell 205, 4 x Aloutte III, there is a half done Puma in a box to go with the SAS for Op Uric, so I'll get to that along with a Mi24 to go with the Executive Outcomes little blokes, but even at 1/72 they do take up a lot of room. Could always do with more ZANLA...

Following on from my attempt at a 2' x 2' terrain board I have started collecting bits for a 2' x 4', which will hopefully spawn into 3 x 4' x 2' eventually.

gamer Mac · « **Reply #325 on:** 28 May 2019, 10:29:50 AM »

Lovely work

From the book I have just read you need you need loads more ZANLA, thousands of them, ZIRPA, Ferlimo and why not some soviet advisers etc,etc
Years worth of work left for you to finish in this project

Book was "A handful of hard men"

Ash · « **Reply #326 on:** 28 May 2019, 08:56:04 PM »

'A Handful of Hard Men' is an excellent book with a very appropriate title. I'll dig out some other titles that may be of interest...

I've done a couple of soviet advisers with my FAPLA contingent & quite a few Cubans, along with BRDMs, BTRs and T54/5 and a lone Mi21 all in another thread along with SADF bits and bobs...

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=59008.0