As announced already in the chat thread this is my entry.
The sprue shot
And I have a few after market bits for it.
I have had this on the stocks for at least ten years, probably longer, and my plan is to incorporate it into a diorama, and full of GI’s on their way to the beaches. I’ve been putting off starting it but there’s no more appropriate time than now, I think. I won’t be attempting the diorama part for the GB, just the Higgins Boat itself, with a couple of US Coastguard crew.
Even though I’ve got the AM stuff I’m not going to get too hung up on detailing(he says...)but I DO want to make it look battered- many of these Higgins Boats had already been used in the Sicily and Italy landings, so they had been around the block a time or two.
I particularly like these two shots
And this is the inspiration for the crew figures.
And there will be CITB-well, In The Front, really :tongue-out3:
The decal instructions just say Normandy, they don’t specify which beach the two decal options apply to , but a rudimentary search leads me to believe that PA13-25 was at Utah Beach, which means the infantry (when I get to them) will have the insignia of 4th Division.
It’s such a long time since I have built a plastic kit, I’m really looking forward to the change.
cheers
Neil
The sprue shot
And I have a few after market bits for it.
I have had this on the stocks for at least ten years, probably longer, and my plan is to incorporate it into a diorama, and full of GI’s on their way to the beaches. I’ve been putting off starting it but there’s no more appropriate time than now, I think. I won’t be attempting the diorama part for the GB, just the Higgins Boat itself, with a couple of US Coastguard crew.
Even though I’ve got the AM stuff I’m not going to get too hung up on detailing(he says...)but I DO want to make it look battered- many of these Higgins Boats had already been used in the Sicily and Italy landings, so they had been around the block a time or two.
I particularly like these two shots
And this is the inspiration for the crew figures.
And there will be CITB-well, In The Front, really :tongue-out3:
The decal instructions just say Normandy, they don’t specify which beach the two decal options apply to , but a rudimentary search leads me to believe that PA13-25 was at Utah Beach, which means the infantry (when I get to them) will have the insignia of 4th Division.
It’s such a long time since I have built a plastic kit, I’m really looking forward to the change.
cheers
Neil
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