More Recce elements

I picked up a set of Dingo Scout cars and a set of jeeps by a Chinese company. I built one Humber as I was recovering from more tummy troubles. I will post shot later.

 Dingo Armor Car, armed with a Bren gun

Side view

Front view

second Dingo being built

 Dingos painted and decaled. 

 Built jeeps armed and ready

 Marked as Recce units of 4th Canadian Armored Division

 Jeep being built

Same jeep finished with a .50 cal machine-gun, and some 15th Scottish Division troops. These are dressed in winter kit, actually a Ceaser Minatures British Commandos kit, but I'm painting them up as British and Canadians, winter 1944-45.

Sick day conversions

I've been having stomach problems recently so took the day off to see a doctor. Afterwards, I worked on some German figures.
After building the Plastic Soldier Company Hanamog 251 kits, I have several figures leftover. I was going to build the loader again but dropped his arms! They have now gone to the land of where socks also go.  However, I had extras and he's now a panzerfaust gunner.

Panzerfaust gunner fell over. The other gun crews are with the 75mm Infantry gun. They will be joining the 272 Panzergrenadier division I built for Ian. I'll have to invest in some new paint later. 

4th Canadian Armored Division

 I've modeled the Division with an M4 Sherman, a Half-Track armed with Anti-Aircraft guns, a Universal Carrier. Information below from wikipedia

The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division was created by the conversion of the 4th Canadian Infantry Division at the beginning of 1942 in Canada. The division proceeded overseas in 1942, with its two main convoys reaching the United Kingdom in August and October.

The division spent almost two years training in the UK before crossing to Normandy in July 1944. In UK, it did participate in war games together with the 1st Armoured Division (Poland), and in France, Low Countries, and Germany, both divisions followed very close paths. It participated in the battle of the Falaise pocket, the advance from Normandy and spent almost two months engaged at the Breskens pocket. It wintered in the Netherlands and took part in the final advance across northern Germany. The division is to be reactivated with the renaming of Land Force Central Area

Formation

1944–1945

4th Canadian Armoured Brigade 

• 21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Foot Guards)
• 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards)
• 28th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Regiment)
• The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor)

Formation sign used to identify vehicles of the 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division

10th Canadian Infantry Brigade

• The Lincoln and Welland Regiment
• The Algonquin Regiment
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
• 10 Canadian Infantry Brigade Ground Defence Platoon (Lorne Scots)

Other units 

• 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment)
• "D" Squadron, 25th Armoured Delivery Regiment (The Elgin Regiment), Canadian Armoured Corps
• 15th Field Regiment, RCA
• 23rd Field Regiment, RCA
• 5th Anti-tank Regiment, RCA

More Universal Carriers

I plan to paint up two of these for the 2nd Canadian Division, one for the 4th Canadian Armored, and one for the 3rd Canadian Division. All these versions are Plastic Soldier Company from the UK. They were pretty easy to build, if you can match the parts with where they should go.

 A new universal carrier with crew and passangers. They are now having a coat of paint dry on them. 

Plastic Soldier Review box. The spooky looking picture is one my family had taken back in 1996, prior to my departure to South Korea. Sadly, it was the last family portrait of us all, due to my parents getting divorced, and my mother being killed in a car accident at Easter, 2014.

The shot was taken at Sherbrooke Village in Nova Scotia. My father and I wore our Pictou Highlanders uniforms, his was of a Lieutanant and my uniform was that of a band corporal. Both uniforms were originals from the First World War, which were going to be thrown out in the garbage. The lady called my father to see if he was interested. We got the uniform coat, blue patrol jacket, an original MacKenzie kilt.

Hanamog 251 WIP

My son's Christmas presents all bought, so Daddy has to build them. Plastic Soldier Company makes some very nice kits, but there is little in the way of instructions. It's not rocket science but it can be tricky if you put stuff on backwards. I guess that's why you always fit the stuff first before you add the glue.

 A 251 gets built

Paint instructions from Plastic Soldier Company

Almost done

 A command version of the 251, the first one in the kit I built. Others to follow. Shots below from tank encyclopedia 

 this version I bought about eleven years ago, however, it needs to be repaired, the muzzle break was broken off, so I may have to replace it with a gun I have without its carriage. I may buy another. 

Loyd Carrier WIP

Plastic Soldier Company kit

Loyd Carrier for towing

the 6pdr Anti-Tank gun

Plastic Soldier Company boxes for these kits.

The new battery. These are now drying with a coat of paint. I may use them in a game this evening.

Building a "Tobruk" for the Siegfried Line

I finished building my sons Panzer IV Whirlwind, but the funny thing Hasegawa does is to include extra parts. I had an additional or optional Panzer IV turret and hull but not an additional set of tracks, road wheels or sprokets to build a complete tank.
Thus was born the beginnings of a Tobruk bunker