AFV CLUB Churchill AVRE with Resicast turret. 1/35 Scale.
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Mathew RussellThanks guys! I agree Rui, OH&S would have kittens over his short distance to the target. But sometimes the fight chooses you, you don't choose the fight.
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If there are booth pics I must be finished ?.
A Churchill AVRE finds itself in a desperate situation as it pushes up a small rise across the shell-shattered landscape of Geilenkirchen in 1944. A tank hunter has crawled from hid burrow as it has approached, and is an instant from firing his panzerfaust.
I have had a lot of fun with this one, primarily because it has been baking in my head for about a decade.
I formed the rough base about 10 years ago, when I finished the AFV Club Churchill AVRE with a resicast turret. I had the figures and the plan in my head, just not the right tree or confidence to make it work.
That all changed a few weeks ago when I noticed one of my Bonsai failures, a pine I had tried to transfer from the bush to a pot and had died, and thought "hmmm... that'll do."
...and it all came together in a bit of a rush.
I added lots of broken branches, some mud, some static grass, and a bucket of gloss varnish. The leaves I had cut a few years ago using a mini leaf punch.
Having just completed reading James Holland's "Brothers in Arms", with his great account of the slog for Geilenkirchen in November of 1944, i had my inspiration.
Anyway, I can tick off another one that has been in my head for a long time. I've yet to add a nameplate, but I thought I'd get it out into the world.
I'm really happy with how this one has turned out. Hope you guys like it.
As always, thoughts and comments are welcome.
Happy modelling!