A Bridge too Far - Tom Builds the British 1st Airborne
Apr 28, 2016 19:59:40 GMT -5
Post by captainecho on Apr 28, 2016 19:59:40 GMT -5
April 28th - Planned deadline - July 10th 2016 (For Historicon)
"I'm awfully sorry, but I'm afraid we will need to occupy your house" - Col John Frost - A Bridge too Far
"This is....Everything, 2 .30 cal machine guns, 11 Hawkins Mines, 17 grenades, two bazookas but we only got 8 rounds left, and assorted small arms. We had a 60mm mortar, but an arty round took it out. Might as well be spit wads if we run into some tanks." - Saving Private Ryan
I've always been fascinated by the British Airborne's campaign during Operation Market Garden. The ambition of it, the audacity, the courageousness it took to hang on that long. All the books I've read, documentaries I've watched, have made it a life's goal to visit the sites in Holland and see it some day. And I know it is a relatively competitive force in Flames of War. And so I went about collecting it all. And I didn't want to start assembling it or painting it before I was ready to do it justice.
So to paraphrase the quote above....here is everything....
My wife asked me if I was selling them...no. I am not selling them. I am finally, after 2 long years of collecting them, going to begin painting them. The snarky among you might point out that simply by typing this I'm procrastinating some more. And you'd be right. But a project this ambitious has to be chronicled, failure or success, so come one come all and enjoy the show. I'll be posting as I complete steps, and walk you through a tutorial of what I have finished.
If I manage to finish my bathroom this summer ahead of schedule, I get to go to historicon. if I fail...I am trapped like Cinderella and will miss the ball.
I have all the heroes, and plan on modeling them appropriately. Frost will be an Urban base, but Ukrhardt will be rural or behind a bush.
The Parachute Company will be the centerpiece, and will be entirely in Urban Rubble bases. I have some of the pieces needed, and will need to do a lot of preliminary painting on those bases with my additional rubble before I add in my figures which will be painted separately to ensure I can get into all the cracks and crevices. I even plan on adding some definition to the faces with a layer of highlighting. I'm debating which other pieces to do in Urban Rubble, and I think a platoon of 4 6 pdrs is defintely on the menu, as well as the Machine gun platoon.
But I'm not sure about the mortars, or the pack howitzers. I have the field engineers prepped to be done with rural bases, and I want the artillery to match both sets of paratroopers.
If I wanted to be a lunatic, I could pick up a second box of paras and do that one as rural, so I could run it as 6th Airborne. Is that stupid? truly insane?
As it stands, I will be spending a lot of time cleaning mold lines, washing away factory dust, and prepping the bases themselves for priming. Pictures sometime next week hopefully.
Comments, Suggestions, and resources appreciated.
"I'm awfully sorry, but I'm afraid we will need to occupy your house" - Col John Frost - A Bridge too Far
"This is....Everything, 2 .30 cal machine guns, 11 Hawkins Mines, 17 grenades, two bazookas but we only got 8 rounds left, and assorted small arms. We had a 60mm mortar, but an arty round took it out. Might as well be spit wads if we run into some tanks." - Saving Private Ryan
I've always been fascinated by the British Airborne's campaign during Operation Market Garden. The ambition of it, the audacity, the courageousness it took to hang on that long. All the books I've read, documentaries I've watched, have made it a life's goal to visit the sites in Holland and see it some day. And I know it is a relatively competitive force in Flames of War. And so I went about collecting it all. And I didn't want to start assembling it or painting it before I was ready to do it justice.
So to paraphrase the quote above....here is everything....
My wife asked me if I was selling them...no. I am not selling them. I am finally, after 2 long years of collecting them, going to begin painting them. The snarky among you might point out that simply by typing this I'm procrastinating some more. And you'd be right. But a project this ambitious has to be chronicled, failure or success, so come one come all and enjoy the show. I'll be posting as I complete steps, and walk you through a tutorial of what I have finished.
If I manage to finish my bathroom this summer ahead of schedule, I get to go to historicon. if I fail...I am trapped like Cinderella and will miss the ball.
I have all the heroes, and plan on modeling them appropriately. Frost will be an Urban base, but Ukrhardt will be rural or behind a bush.
The Parachute Company will be the centerpiece, and will be entirely in Urban Rubble bases. I have some of the pieces needed, and will need to do a lot of preliminary painting on those bases with my additional rubble before I add in my figures which will be painted separately to ensure I can get into all the cracks and crevices. I even plan on adding some definition to the faces with a layer of highlighting. I'm debating which other pieces to do in Urban Rubble, and I think a platoon of 4 6 pdrs is defintely on the menu, as well as the Machine gun platoon.
But I'm not sure about the mortars, or the pack howitzers. I have the field engineers prepped to be done with rural bases, and I want the artillery to match both sets of paratroopers.
If I wanted to be a lunatic, I could pick up a second box of paras and do that one as rural, so I could run it as 6th Airborne. Is that stupid? truly insane?
As it stands, I will be spending a lot of time cleaning mold lines, washing away factory dust, and prepping the bases themselves for priming. Pictures sometime next week hopefully.
Comments, Suggestions, and resources appreciated.