Carrier conversions 28mm

[scottie3158]

Chris, some great details being added, even better when you realise how small these are.

[Steve-the-Duck]

Chris, some great details being added, even better when you realise how small these are.

Many thanks. I need my on stand magnifier permanently on hand
Copious use of 10 and 20 thou plasticard, plus random strip bits go into these!

Forgot to mention, the back plate behind the driver had some surgery done, to turn the seat rest the other way up as it's at the top
The top edge of the side panels may get sum greeblies added, as cover tie-downs. Unfortunately the phot reference show the tilt attached, so I don't know what's there. Even the plans are vague

[adt70hk]

Some great conversion work going on. Really very impressive.

Keep up the good work!

Andrew

[Steve-the-Duck]

So, the Light Dragon Mk.III is pretty much finished. I will probably do a tilt cover one painted, with the sides up

The commander figure will be fixed in once everything else is painted. I've used the Milicast 1/76 casting as reference for the rear as still the only phot of the back has an 18/25 pdr and limber being towed, in the way.
All kit parts and figures still Warlord
I had completed the tilt frame, but I thought it looked too tall. Then I found the maker's drawings I've got in the 'Moving the Guns' book have actual dimensions. That, and the photo show the commander head-an-shoulders above the tilt
Cue me removing the brass, cutting the the down, and lowering the tops of the sides by a millimeter. It looks better now, I think. But I could still cock-up the paint job!

Time to complete the Cavalry carrier now

[Steve-the-Duck]

So, here we are, the Cavalry carrier is built

Rifle frames and body work added, plus the seat back frames

And so...

The pyramid frame at the front is for the tilt cover. Strangely, this was the only variant of the carriers with a tilt cover frame included from the start
Side skirts are from an old MiG-21 fuel pod cut down. I couldn't cut the aluminium tube easily enough, so just a bit of scraping and shaping

The crew are going to require some major surgery, so I may do some undecoating of all three first before THAT exercise

Still tempted to do a Mk.I, as the mesh side-skirts do look better

[Peter Gillson]

Excellent work - lookkng really good.

Peter

[scottie3158]

Cracking work.

[Richard48]

I agree with Peter and others.Lovely wee carriers.
Richard

[Steve-the-Duck]

Halfords matt black spray as undercoat. It's VERY matt!
I've already done the all-over spray of Olive Drab, which is fairly close to the G3 Khaki Green base colour
Now, I just need to re-drill the aerial mounting on the Scout!

[Steve-the-Duck]

So, block painting is done, next for shading, marking and weathering. Now to work on the Cavalry carrier crew, and the Dragon tilt

Base colour, for G3 analogue, is Humbrol Olive Drab spray, then two different greens for G4 a-likes. My G5 analogue doesn't contrast very well with the olive drab, so I usually use that with a dark green or more brown base

[Steve-the-Duck]

So, an all-over brown ink wash to shade, next for the detail painting

[Steve-the-Duck]

Paintwork and markings on with basic weathering. Starmer mostly for the AoS and divisional signs and census numbers


Just a few details on the Scout, crew for the Cavalry and the tilt for the Dragon left, then they'll get the all-over matt spray. That should also tone down the transfers a little

[Guest]

Very nice group of early Carriers

[Steve-the-Duck]

We rapidly approach a conclusion

The crew for the Cavalry carrier are complete

As can be seen, they wouldn't fit with the seat back in position, that only left room for two figures.
Easy solution, take that off and make a new one attached to the figures themselves. Also, needed to take some off their feet for them to fit in the narrow gap
The near-side right-hand foremost has no right arm, as yet, as he's going to be leaning on the panel behind the driver. The corporal is guiding the way from the back-seat!

[Steve-the-Duck]

The tilt cover for the Dragon is made from Apoxie two-part putty, recommended to me by my brother-in-law. Although he does say it's a little toxic, so more caution needed than Miliput. It's damn good stuff though

This is the underside inside, so it's a bit scrappy with extra filler

Next is cleaning and painting!