6 pdr and Universal carrier(SOPCom: Best Diorama)

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  • August 22, 2018 at 7:43 pm #143951
    Matt Bell
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    Hello,
    I was taken with the idea of the painting competition but struggled for what to do as I like converting the figures to create new poses. Then one evening in hospital (a long and different story) I came across a video of a 6pd gun being unhitched from a jeep and set up for firing – so that got my ideas flowing and I came across the attached picture – for inspiration purposes only from the following location
    (https://brooklynwargaming.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/brit6pdr.jpg) – sorry its a rival company.
    Now this could not fall into the unit category as the number of men is too high but it can come into the diorama, it will require a lot of surgery on figures to get the poses right but I will give it a go. I am as yet undecided whether to include a universal carrier instead of the Loyd tractor.

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    1. brit6pdr.jpg

    August 22, 2018 at 7:46 pm #143953
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    I will post some photos showing the progress of the diorama

    August 22, 2018 at 7:56 pm #143954
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    Gun crew development

    August 22, 2018 at 8:05 pm #143955
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    hopefully these photos upload

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    1. Crew-resized.jpg

    2. Crew-2-resized.jpg

    3. Carrier-1-resized.jpg

    4. Crew-resized-1.jpg

    5. Carrier-5-resized.jpg

    6. Crew-2-resized-1.jpg

    7. Carrier-1-resized-1.jpg

    8. Carrier-5-resized-1.jpg

    August 22, 2018 at 8:19 pm #143957
    Gareth
    Participant

    Nothing yet buddy 🙁

    August 22, 2018 at 8:53 pm #143960
    Dr Dave
    Participant

    If you can wait the Loyd is in the pipeline by all accounts. Only a few units used the universal for this in NWE – 3rd Inf Div, 50th Inf Div and 3rd Canadian inf div. Warlord probably do the decal sets for these somewhere.

    August 22, 2018 at 9:03 pm #143972
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    Dave – thanks for the info re the Loyd carrier – it will not be intimate for the competition though. The 3rd Division landed 6 pdrs towed by UCs on Sword beach. I have used licence to move the location of the photo to just inland form the Bach head. A couple of days after d-day a team are relocating their 6pdr the UC has shed its deep wading screens I have seen a picture of a UC on about the 15th June where it still has its deep waders but it was a mortar carrier.

    August 22, 2018 at 9:03 pm #143973
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    some more photos

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    1. DSC_0012.jpg

    2. DSC_0009.jpg

    August 22, 2018 at 9:05 pm #143976
    Matt Bell
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    progress with diorama can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/mjbmodels/posts/761796927545274

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    1. fullsizeoutput_433.jpg

    August 22, 2018 at 9:18 pm #143980
    Matt Bell
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    The soldiers will be from the 1st South Lancashire Regiment who landed aboard LCT4 serial 213 at H+45 on D-Day. This is based on information meticulously compiled on another web forum which details nearly all the landing craft that hit Sword beach on D-Day.
    I have used modellers license to a degree but I feel that is ok given the nature of modelling for wargaming.

    August 22, 2018 at 9:19 pm #143981
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    it has been long and painful but I have finally got some up

    August 22, 2018 at 10:10 pm #143985
    Gareth
    Participant

    Can see the photos now,it’s coming along really well.

    August 23, 2018 at 1:45 am #144002
    Jim Ripley
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    Nice work on converting / kit bashing the figures . Just noticed something is out of scale with the carrier or rifles ( you put the rifle rack where it’s supposed to go ) , they shouldn’t protrude as far as they do , I wonder it the engine screen is too long ? Photos show the muzzle pretty much even with the front wall , other wise Tommy up front has to keep his helmet on . Where did you get the tow bar for the carrier ? Scratch built or is it out of the metal kit ?

    August 23, 2018 at 11:15 am #144140
    Matt Bell
    Participant

    the out of scale rifles – this is down to the fact that the figures are heroic 28mm scale and the UC is 1/56. I have tried to stay within the realms of the keeping the model from the BA range. I have used minimal spares from the box hence why the rifles are too long. Hopefully it Does not detract from the finished article. But I will not complain as I am a big fan of the first generation BA figure kits and the versatility that they offer for conversions sadly lacking in the more recent releases.

    August 23, 2018 at 1:59 pm #144156
    Jim Ripley
    Participant

    I moved the rifle rack on mine further back to the middle of the screens , not correct but the rifles look better . Where did you get the tow bar ?

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