Paint table Sunday

The Easter edition of paint table Sunday was very productive. Not only did the trench prototype get finished but also some AFVs and the Sarrisa Precision 220 loco was completed.

First up is the Urban Construct's Churchill ARK bridging tank. The casting was a bit messy and required a lot of cleaning up with files. The ramps are printed and thus have the line patina common to printed parts. Overall a decent model that reflects the prototype. I heavily weathered this  model to reflect the rather disposable and abused nature of this bit of kit with other AFVs crossing over it. Still need to add transfers to this model. This model will join my ever growing Royal Engineer echelon for my WW2 late war British Army and will add some flavor to gap crossing scenarios.

Next up was Rosa Miniatures A30 Challenger. This was my first fully printed tank; needless to say I am very intrigued by the technology. The barrel is a bit chunky as are a few other parts and the hull has the usual print lines which are difficult to remove. A bit of effort saw the turret cleaned of these lines and barrel reduced a little. The model scales okay against the Warlord Cromwell. This kit is cheaper than plastic or resin and fills the gap in the range of the big makers. Stowage by Tamiya. The A30 Challenger tank was a variant of the Cromwell tank, which had a lengthened hull and a larger turret to house the 17 Pdr anti tank gun. They were usually deployed within Cromwell Troops, with three Cromwells and one Challenger tank. Later on they were replaced with Sherman VC Fireflys or Comet tanks. Surprisingly even with the taller turret it is still slightly lower than a Sherman.

The last item was Sarrisa Precision's 220 locomotive finished in wartime austerity black and heavily weathered due to wartime neglect. Buffers were converted from map pins, charcoal added to the tender to simulate coal and a vacuum pipe added to the front made from wrapped wire. This loco shall be used on tables representing WW1, WW2 and even the RCW. A fiddly MDF kit, well designed and worth the build.

Paint table Sunday

Managed to get some brush time and knocked out some Gangs of Rome characters including Marcus the Orator (you may recognise him from the HBO series Rome), a Domine, geese and a Mob base. The rest the Gangs of Rome collection was coated in Testors dull coat to protect them.

Paint Table Sunday

This week has been rather busy, so no block painting of Prussian foot. However I was able to complete the painting of the Warlord plastic Churchill with weathering. All that remains are transfers but as yet I am undecided as to which unit to theme it on.

Secondly I managed to scrape some time to paint some resin supply dump terrain by Anyscale models. These were quire easy to shade, ink and dry brush. These will make excellent objectives as well as to give an indication of my late war British Armies logistic tail.

Lastly I was able to convert a Eureka Miniatures dismounted dragoon vignette into a trooper of the Philadelphia Light Horse. The figure required a little trim with a needle file and sculpt with greenstuff to make coat tails and lapels.  Some pictures show the unit in Tarleton helmets. The horse furniture is still in French Hussar style so a little whimsical for the AWI period. Overall I am rather pleased how the vignette turned out.