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Saturday 20 March 2021

20mm WW2 British tank crew

I shared a box of the recently released Orion British WW2 winter tank crew with Will, 2 sprues each.  These guys are the most useful dismounted figures, each sprue has a chap loading shells and two guys handling jerry cans (mounted in groups of three at the back) and then there are bailed out tank crew figures, again each sprue carries a guy running, another firing a Sten from the hip and a third firing a revolver.


Two stands of three tankers refueling/rearming.  Should work as markers to show resupply going on.


Bailed out tank crew markers.



Orion's early productions were a bit short on detail, but these figures are lovely.  A tiny amount of flash in places, annoyingly near the faces in some instances, but relatively easy to remove.  They are modelled wearing "Pixie suits", which I think makes them suitable for Normandy onwards.  I've painted them in green ochre, washed in Agrax earthshade, berets and boots black grey, webbing is Russian uniform green lightened with Iraqi sand.  Silver for goggles and cap badge.




The rest of the figures on the sprue include three figures suitable for crew in hatches, a kneeling figure as if on the tank deck ready to take the shell being offered by the figure above, and two seated figures, one eating from a mess can.  All very nice and will be put to good use when I'm next working on command British armour.

I even tinkered with the image to try for a period look.


As ever, thanks for looking.

12 comments:

  1. Superb work on these. Great characterization on the faces.

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    1. Thanks. They are some of the nicest 20mm sculpts I've seen.

      Cheers, Andy

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  2. These are great Mr C, a very useful box by the looks of it. That last picture looks fantastic!!

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    1. Cheers Richard, you can never have enough tank crew, so they have lots of options to decorate vehicles, as well as the dismounts shown.

      Cheers, Andy

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  3. Great work Andy, I agree they are lovely figures, you just pipped me to the post. Mine were finished a couple of days ago.

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    1. Ah, look forward to seeing yours. I'm already looking forward to the next batch of releases.

      Cheers, Andy

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  4. Very nice, looks like a useful set

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    1. Thanks Richard. Yes, some nice dismounted poses, plus as many again for hatches. They are some of the nicest plastic figures I've seen.

      Cheers, Andy

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  5. Great stuff Andy, I think I will pick up that box myself

    Cheers
    Matt (bluewillow)

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    1. Thanks, they are some of the nicest plastic figures I've worked on.

      Cheers, Andy

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  6. Absolutely brilliant. I just received these and the WD ones as well. Hope they turn out as good as this. I also got the US versions. The top half of most of these will make great crew for M10', Achilles and other open topped SPG's and such.

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    1. The desert figures are excellent, similar range of poses and nicely scuplted. I also have the US set, but only painted up 5 of them so far. The US tanker figure in the windcheater carrying a grease gun is a shoe-in for a head swap with a standard US infantry head for Clint Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes.

      Cheers, Andy

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