Little Tanks & Tiny People

This part wraps up my 53rd Welsh Division for Bolt Action. At least, for the time being. The Division had quite a few toys to play with during the liberation of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, so don’t be surprised if I add a Cromwell, M10 Tank Destroyer or a Churchill Crocodile at some point... No late-war British army is complete without a couple of Universal Carriers, so my army has two. These ones are by Warlord Games. The kits go together very easily and there is just enough stowage on the sprues to make each look a little different. Bit of a letdown, however, is that three of the four crew members come with the same head sculpt. As I had some spare heads from the infantry box, I added in a couple of those. Quite a few divisions are represented on the decal sheet that comes with the vehicles, but the 53rd Welsh Division isn’t one of them. Luckily, the red crown used by the division is pretty simple to paint on by hand.   And then it was a matter of painting up the infantry. There ar...

I sort of teased my latest project in my previous post by showing an unfinished Sherman Firefly. I have since blacklined the details to make them stand out a bit more and also added some more weathering. The Firefly, together with a second Sherman armed with a 75 mm cannon and a Ram Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier, will be part of a late-war British army themed around the liberation of 's-Hertogenbosch by the 53rd Welsh Division in October 1944.  Sherman IC Firefly (Rubicon Models) The Sherman IC Firefly is made by Rubicon Models, while the Sherman V is by Warlord Games. The dimensions of both vehicles are very similar and both kits can be used alongside each other without any problems. The Sherman V is slightly longer than the IC, but that is accurate considering that the hull of the Sherman V was lengthened to fit the Chrystler multibank engine.  There are some stylistic differences between both kits, however. For one, the crew figures of the Rubicon kit are considerabl...