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Objective 👍

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Sounds boring.

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The plane shows you have air superiority. In my game when you have air superiority and roll a six for initiative you can roll for an air strike.

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Not in 1942 ☝️

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The Jerry cans and spare track are courtesy of Rubicon supplies kit, I used Sherman track which isn’t quite right hence the tow cable to disguise it a bit. I made the cages for the cans from plastic card.

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Warlord Games 1/56 resin kit.

quite a nice model. I added the stowage

I was originally going to paint it up for Stalingrad, but repurposed it since my Stalingrad board is about a year off schedule

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So I’ve given it a base, but it’s on a pin so it can come off. It’s a gaming piece not a diorama.  The Field Marshal lets you re roll for initiative each turn.

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I put the model on my windowsill to get the blue sky 😅.  No photoshop here

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In game terms, having the Fox deployed adds +1 to your initiative roll 👍

The kit is from Perry miniatures (28mm), but doesn’t come with decals,  so I had to print my own.

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I want buy another one now and have them pushing it up the slope 🤔

 

 

 

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You would think, but no.
squirt a load of foam into a tub or bowl, and add a generous amount of glue. Then fold it like if you were mixing egg whites.

it takes a day or two to set, but it does set. While it’s wet I dusted it with soda powder.

I’m not going to guarantee what it will be like a year from now 🙂  but it’s an interesting experiment.  I like that it settles – you just spread it out like icing and over a few hours it settles into the terrain.

 

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If you mix shaving foam with PVA you get shaving foam that sets hard ☝️

And your game table smells lemon fresh 👌

Spread over dark brown teddy bear fur that I first sprayed white.

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Thanks I’ll pass these comments to my wife who doesn’t seem to share these opinions.

 

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Does the book make claim of true story or only the movie?

 

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I had to dig out the old OKI5000 decal printer to do the decal for the bonnet.

I had a decal printer for making slot cars, but the print driver only works on Windows 98 – so I also had to dust off an ancient laptop so I could install ‘98

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I haven’t read the book,

the movie makes claim of ‘true story’ but is it based on anything true?

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I just got the 404 reference..  took me a while 😆

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Sweet

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Finally started to detail the tank factory…

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That’s a good question, and I don’t know the answer. Several references I googled showed that.  My guess would be some kind of aerial recognition, I can’t think of any other reason.

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Nice.  I wanted to get one these in 1/56

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It was an improvised vehicle originally with an open top, but in Stalingrad that wasn’t so clever so it’s been up-armoured with a lid added.  I think only 24 were built and had limited success, only 12 were employed in Stalingrad, so one will do for my purposes as a mobile artillery unit with heavy hitting power against buildings and defenses.

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Oh, just with pliers. I didn’t really think to mention it as I always do this with my tanks, especially the T34s.  I like to remove or seriously distort the front and rear mud flaps. I always think tanks look better with these removed.

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Oh no, the hatch open hatch on the back is only approximate.  just marked it roughly in pencil.  If you tried to fit it, it wouldn’t be a good fit.  But it doesn’t have to be – this isn’t a 1/35th award winning diorama, it’s just quick build for gaming – it’s good enough.

 

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I found it hard to get a sense of the street layout. I think the building also overlooks the fountain.  Stalingrad movies are the only references that I can really find.

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