The models are Warlord Games box set British Sherman tank troop. The models go together well and I was happy with the results. So much so I have got another box set to produce B squadron.
No tank model is worth it's salt without a clutter of stowage.
Having trawled the web for images of Canadian Sherman tanks in Normandy I found that Firefly tanks often had cloth draped on them presumably to reduce glare from the painted surfaces. I have modelled this with muslin socked in PVA. Quite happy with the results.
Wow, I am happy to have stumbled upon your page! This was my uncle's regiment, who was killed in the assault near Bayeux France in July 1944. He was a tank trooper. It had the highest casualties in WW2 in a single day with the sole exception of the Dieppe raid. Both my sons are part of an armoured regiment: The Governor General's Horse Guards here in Ontario, and my older son carries a neatly folded printed account of that battle as witnessed by a German gunner. Those guns are still there, embedded in concrete ambush bunkers just above the beach near Bayeux, and 100 yards from the Canadian memorial...
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving us a context and point of reference to testify this great little regiment of very courageous boys, and they were just boys... :(
Catherine S., niece of Trooper B. Solymos, Fort Garry Horse