A tail of two Churchills

[Clashcityrocker]

Looks very good with the wading gear.

Nigel

[Cardinal]

My Dragon M4A3E8 Sherman also has small fragile parts. Great detail on dragon models but always hate their fragile nature.

[SJPONeill]

I have the Hasegawa Mk.1 (completed if you can believe that!!) but never liked the colour options I could find in the 80s...quite keen on digging it out for a recolour after seeing this build...

[B4en]

The Dragon kit is clearly not the best of models to build, but it came out well in the end and at least you have a Mk III! Looks great.

[Stuart]

Both of those Churchills came out looking very nice indeed - very nicely done. I do like your bases, they set of the models nicely. If you don't mind me asking, what did you use for the base of the base - is that plasticard or cardboard?

[RCD]

Thank you for all the positive comments - much appreciated.


The base is a typical knock together project using bits and bobs that were readily available.
It was a piece of thick plastic sheeting that was covered with a thin layer of " Wilcos" brown wood filler from a tube - shame they have gone to the wall. Made an excellent soil colour. The track was originally meant to be tarmac but did not look right. This was coated with PVA followed with sieved bonfire ash. The greenery was typical bits I picked up from the local railway shop when they had their sales.

[Stuart]

Thank you for all the positive comments - much appreciated.


The base is a typical knock together project using bits and bobs that were readily available.
It was a piece of thick plastic sheeting that was covered with a thin layer of " Wilcos" brown wood filler from a tube - shame they have gone to the wall. Made an excellent soil colour. The track was originally meant to be tarmac but did not look right. This was coated with PVA followed with sieved bonfire ash. The greenery was typical bits I picked up from the local railway shop when they had their sales.

Thanks for the explanation - I'm impressed with the ash, that looks really effective.

[B4en]

Yes, the ash is an excellent idea. One that will be stolen I might add...

[KellerModeller]

Hello,
the ash is looking really effective! If (like me, I think it makes regular cleaning/dusting of the models easier) you give everything you build a final clear coat, you might want to be careful or use a test piece because I could imagine the ash could change it's colour back to almost black this way. (Ask me how I know, I sometimes do panel line shading with pastel chalk powder that on two occasions changed it's colour from "invisible" to "looking ridiculous" by adding a final matt paint layer..) .
br, KM

[beany]

Great looking base and very good method to achieve it. Now I have to decide which bit of furniture I can live without in order to get some bonfire ash...