Today’s post brings my Dieppe Landing project officially to a close. I’m very pleased to see these boys finished as it’s been a bit since I’ve actually completed a project!
*Please note the terms “finished and completed” are loosely used here are already I have additions to this army on the plastic & lead mountain…. It never ends, right?
This ten man Section represent Canada’s finest army regulars, very well trained and poorly prepared for the landings August 19th 1942.
Next up is my last entry for Dave Stone’s Summer of Scenery challenge, a resin Humvee from Warlord Games (no longer supported) Project Z zombie survival game. It’s an okay sculpt but is seriously small for a 28mm game - more like 1:60 really. Regardless, it’ll be fine for the tabletop and hopefully offer a fun gaming option. Left the painting to a passable tabletop effort, the colour scheme was taken from a National Guard Humvees that we’re parked outside my workplace summer 2020 when the riots were going on all over the country.
As alway, stay safe and healthy out there!
- Dai
Your Canadians look great Dai, to be honest I wouldn't have known the outfits weren't right for the time period, unless you told me.
ReplyDeleteGreat work on the Humvee like the weathered scratched look you've gone for on it. Useful you got to see some close up, but not for the reason why !
Thank you Dave! Seeing them with the wrong uniforms hurts a hobbyist like me who likes to research those kind of things. OCD is real people lol
DeleteYou paint a very characterful figure, Dai. Say, is that Humvee one of the 22,000 the US left to the Taliban?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I managed to have one set aside for my own personal collection before our boys were sent home. :)
DeleteCheers Jon
Lovely work Dai!
ReplyDeleteThank you Michal!
DeleteBoth good additions to the DD collection
ReplyDeleteAppreciate it sir!
DeleteThey look great and the basing is perfect for the shingle beach at Dieppe. The sergeant w the Sten is especially fearsome. Well done.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Mike
Cheers Mike! Glad they fit the bill!
DeleteNice work Dai! Love the Hummer shame its a bit small.
ReplyDeleteCheers Simon! Yeah, it's about 3/4 the size it should be but o well. It'll do!
DeleteLovely looking Canadians and the humvee looks suitably distressed!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain! Amazing what some simple sponging can do to a model!
DeleteGreat work on the figures Dai, my own BEF project is currently stalled as I am working on getting stuff done for Stargrave. As the pandemic was until recently winding down, I need to get stuff ready for when we can play together again. Sort of feel like we are on a roller coaster with the ups & downs.
ReplyDeleteCheers Terry! Joys of having too many projects! I suffer from the same in a terrible manner. Still, that suits my butterfly attention span. :)
DeleteNice job! Collections are only ever 95% complete because there’s always something in the lead pile waiting to be painted; eve if only to be used 1 out of 10 times. 😀
ReplyDeleteHa! Yes, very true. Thanks Stew!
DeleteNice work on both of these projects Dai. I agree with your analysis of the Warlord plastic figures and Victrix are even worse! Nice enough when completed but a real pain to get to that stage. I currently have a box each of the Perry 8th Army and Afrika Korps - they are nice and simple to assemble and paint up well - I wish they had done a few more sets - apart from US ETO infantry, these are all the WW2 28mm plastics the twins have done so far and they seem otherwise engaged at the moment so I doubt there will be much expansion of the WW2 range in plastic...
ReplyDeleteThank you sir!
DeleteThose Perry's US and 8th Army kits look so nice. But from what I've read, they are somewhat smaller than the Warlord sculpts? (Closer to 25mm rather than the 28mm "heroic" scale Warlord uses)