28/09/2024

British Horsa Gliders

Just in time I finished painting my four 3D printed Horsa gliders for the Wargamers Forum Arnhem Speed build.
Painting the invasion stripes took a considerable time, when I last painted one (link) it came with decals for this as well. AS a reminder the Horsas are bath-tubbed by reducung the length and wingspan to 1/100 scale while the fuselage diameter is 1/80 just like my Wacos.
The only downside is that the models are tail heavy. I did debate modelling them with the undercarriage collapsed, but I thought I would wait till that happened with use.

23/09/2024

Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars

I already had a single Ready to Roll Humber Light Reconnaissance Car, and I wanted to have a bigger unit, but I was never happy enough with it being the based, so I took the opportunity to buy the STL file in a recent sale and print off a batch. They are now painted and ready for action.
Backing them up are a Daimler and Staghound whose hulls had exploded and had to be replaced

21/09/2024

Free French Tanakes

A blast from past with the old Rapid Fire books, a pair of Free French Tanake converted armoured Dodge trucks with either a 37mm or 47mm gun.
These were free 3D files found on Thingiverse, but I have yet to find the more heavily armoured "Conus"

19/09/2024

Replacement hulls for Lanchester Armoured Cars

Yet again I have had to replace a couple of vehicles from my initial attempts at 3D printing. In this case the hulls developed a crack, one was too noticeable but the other was minor, so I decided to replace them both.
The original post is here (link)

15/09/2024

Dodge WC-63s

I had already tried out a WC-63 that I had found on Thingiverse (link), but I wasn't happy with the way it turned out as it was quite low on it's wheels. Therefore when I found a very nice WC-53 I decided to modify it into a WC-63 and these are the results.
The original was scaled to 1/56 but as I was printing it to 1/76 some details were too fragile and had to be thickened up. It also came with a nice crewman, but is typically sculted in heroic style for Bolt Action and does look somewhat oversized for this vehicle.
Here is the original WC-53 Beep on Thingiverse (link)

13/09/2024

M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage

My existing M8 HMC's come from a variety of sources and they are all very heavy as they are mainly metal and vary in size even if all of them are nominally 1/76. So I decided to purchase a very nice STL with full interior detail and a couple of crewmen.
Using both crewmen on each tank looked rather cluttered so I only added one to each, the others will be used on my other US armour.

11/09/2024

Panzerwerfer 42

As I plan to gradually retire my diecast vehicles I was tempted by finding and STL file for the Panzerwerfer 42 or more correctly 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1 (based on the Opel Maultier, or "mule", half-track). A couple of very clean prints in 1/76 scale.
They can also be re-configured as the 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer version

09/09/2024

Hin und Zurück - Opel buses

Continuing the bus theme here are a couple more, but 3D printed German Opel buses this time.
Firstly one from 1940 advancing into France
and then retreating in 1944

07/09/2024

Just take a bus part 1

Or more appropriately for anyone from a city you wait ages and then two turn up. A couple of extemporised transports for my 1940 French arny.
It's a Renault TN-6 bus as used in Paris in the 30s and actually used for transport. The basic model was a multicomponent set of STL files which I had to assemble first before 3D printing

04/09/2024

It never snows in September - On the workbench

Yes it is the 80th anniversary of Market Garden so there is a themed build on "The Wargamers Forum" so it is the ideal time to get something suitable done, I will be travelling a bit but hopefuly it should disrupt the main task so I will work on:
  • Assembling and painted four Horsa gliders
  • 28mm ECW gun crew 3D printed - still inderway
  • Continue working on heap of 3D printed vehicles
  • Get the 3D Resin Printer going again to produce more stuff while the weather is good
  • Start rebasing the Imperial Guard and other allied Guards

01/09/2024

Swiss in the service of Napoleonic France rebased

Last of my September output a pair of Swiss battealions have been rebased and new command teams added.
1st Swiss
2nd Swiss