I thought I would quickly post a couple of completed stands, since I have been posting mainly works in progress, and Star Wars stuff recently. A couple of years back I purchased through an internet auction site, a number of metal 20mm moderns figures. Amongst these figures was a TOW section consisting of the launcher and tripod, and three crew. One was kneeling down, while the other two were carrying reloads.
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Metal figures, maker unknown, and TOW launcher. |
So I made up a TOW stand with two of the figures, and put the spare reloader in the bits box for future use. I used a 20mm x 30mm stand to base them, as I intended to make it possible for it to be a double size stand in CD 3 terms, but also to have enough room to fit the tripod and crew on the base.
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Spare gunner and reloader on left. Makers unknown. |
Some time later, I remembered that I had an orphan metal WW2 US gun crew figure in the bits box, so I thought that they could be turned into another TOW stand. All that remained was to construct a tripod out of sprue, and an optics/control unit out of plastic card. So when I was thinking recently about what anti tank weapons were in use in Harad, I thought about making up another TOW stand.
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Sprue and plastic card can make all sorts of stuff, |
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Another view of the original TOW stand, soon to be washed and flocked. |
Making the launcher was quite straight forward as it is essentially a squat trip made of sprue legs with some attached pieces of plastic card. Both stands have been painted in the olive drab that I am using as uniform of the pre civil war Haradi military. While in the photo the first TOW crew looks very green, a wash has toned that down somewhat. I am quite looking forward to seeing these stands fielded in a game against some of the armour that I have been painting up.
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Haradi TOW stand. Background, Airfix Attack Force Centurion Tanks. |
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Another view of the washed and flocked stand. |
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The extra TOW stand is finished. |
Thanks again for taking the time to view my work!
This is blooming good, and what I am always looking for in a blog post.
ReplyDeleteI think I will have a go at this shortly having seen this.
Ten out of ten.
Seems fair enough, especially given that I had your blog inspire me to create my Sagger stands!
ReplyDeleteEven then! I had a look at the HK/China Centurions and can send you a photo if you want.
ReplyDeleteI think they are rubbish but if you want to have a look, post a comment on my blog with your email addy. (I will not post it to the public.)
Cheers Paul