I was gifted some bags of excess figures by a friend. Some British and some Germans. The Brits and some of the Germans were kinda of old fashioned and boring sculpts without a lot of animation or detail. A lot of pioneers with mines and flamethrowers. Even my nephew turned his nose up at them when I offered. Some of the Germans were kinda of interesting; all late war helmet covers and
zeltbahns, wielding StG44 assault rifles and panzerfausts. Enough to organize a platoon of Volksgrenadiers.
But the idea didn't stick and I wasn't too keen on painting them up. So I chucked them all in a box to sell off at
Hotlead. (Trying to be clever this year and sort my Bring and Buy stuff out early instead of the night before.)
Then I had an even cleverer idea. So clever you could put a tail on it and call it a fox.
I chopped them in half.
I cut a bunch of 25mm by 30mm bases (a
Flames of War small base I believe). Then I squirted on nice little rounds of caulking and smoothed these into roughly oval/rectangular embankments. Before the caulking dried I buried them in my fine sand.
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Slit trenches |
The next day I shook them off and glued two half figures into each slit trench.
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Dug in Canadian platoon |
Don't worry, after the picture was taken I straightened out the squaddie leaning against his fellow.
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Section of Germans |
So I've done all the Canadians and have enough for a dug in platoon. For the Germans however, it looks like I've got a couple of platoons worth with lots of MG42s once I fashion some more slit trenches for them.
A neat idea! I look forward to seeing them painted.
ReplyDeleteNicely done. I had some of the old glory/command decision fox hole troops. But I think yours look top notch.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhile you had the caulk out did you do my bases too? :-)
ReplyDeletea little anxious are you?
ReplyDelete;-)
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to mention the inspirational and charming company you had during this session. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I'm sure things would have been disastrous if it weren't for your fellowship and beer.
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