20mm Falklands Scimitar Part4 Markings

I'm now on to the vexed question of markings, I initially thought of the standard number plates and markings for the Blues and Royals, here's a nice photo of Scimitar 23 Charlie.

This photo is on Ascension island on route south, and I'd ordered some of the Kingfisher decals, this photo is the landrover sheet but you get the idea.

On further digging it appears that the guys painted out the markings and insignia prior to operations for obvious reasons.

So the question to you folks is should I leave the insignia/markings off (Historically accurate) or should I put them on (Looks Nicer) ? Thoughts?  Dougie

20mm Falklands Scimitar Part3

Well I've applied the camo scheme using Ammo by Mig  and Vallejo Model Air acrylics. Its had a basic modulation, sometimes difficult to see on the photos but it is there! The 2 colour camo is fairly straight forward, the base green was modulated on first, I then added the blutak masks and sprayed the black and modulated it as well. Dougie

Green modulated on , I've used 3 shades

Blu Tak masked added

Black modulated on

Blu Tak removed

Once the paints on you can see the roughness of the casting, its not ideal but I'll hopefully get away with it once its completed!

20mm Argentinian GPMG Teams

Folks, continuing to build up my 20mm Argentine Platoon, a couple of GPMG teams, new figures from Liberation. Dougie

20mm Falklands Scimitar Part2

Vehicle hit with Halfords primer and the commander painted. Next up are the camo colours put on through  the Iwata.
Dougie

20mm Falklands

I've been collecting some scenery/ vignette bits for my 20mm Falklands setup. I managed to pick up some reduced Scaledale buildings from a local model railway shop, all corrugated ones of course.

These are resin and reasonably well painted, I'll be doing a little repainting and basing them as well. I also picked up some tractors from Wiking which are 1/87 but I think I'll get away with it, the intention here is to model the civilian tractors that local residents on the islands used to assist the troops. There are some cracking photos in "With 3PARA to the Falklands" by Graham Colbeck

 and I'll be basing the vignettes on these, here's an example.

Vehicle wise I'm looking at civilian  Landrovers, so Cararama and Oxford will be supplying. Below is an Oxford SWB Landrover that I've tarted up and based. Dougie

20mm Falklands Scimitar Part 1

Back to the Falklands for a 20mm Scimitar to support my Brits. When I decided to do a Scimitar I was aware of the Britannia one, Airfix and Ace. I tend towards resin for a quicker build but got offered a look at the Ace one which is an excellent kit but had etched brass tracks! This was unfortunately a non starter so I ordered a Britannia one from Grubby. I built one quite a few years ago when the late Dave Howitt ran the show and it was a good wargames model. However the latest one I received was obviously a victim of old moulds, covered in bubbles with the smoke dischargers on the turret missing and a fair bit of detail gone soft. I suspect a few folks would have returned it but I decided to crack on with the filler and plastruct. The photos below show the reconstruction work finished, the tank commander has his sleeves rolled up, obviously for summer on the north German plain so he got some long sleeves for the weather down south.

On a side issue I was wanting a couple of Britannia Centurions for my SADF troops but I'm quite wary, think I'll just have to look at the quality in the flesh at Vapnartak at York in February. Here's hoping. Dougie

3PARA Support

Another 3 Brits finished for my 28mm platoon. Empress figures, a JTAC and a 2 man GPMG team.
Dougie

More 28mm Modern British work

Folks, done some work on my ongoing 28mm Modern British Platoon, namely some support with a GPMG team and a JTAC figure. I'm using Empress figures which are so nice, the GPMG guy is a stonker and I've used a standard SA80 armed guy as his number 2. The JTAC would be humping his PRC-117F radio in a bergan so I looked for a suitably equipped Empress figure and added the 117 aerial made from plastic rod with a brass rod core. The finished figures will be up very soon, in the meantime here's a shot of the scratched aerial added to the JTAC.
Dougie