I had the gun emplacement assault set as a kid, decided to finally paint it up now :o
All these years left untouched and it actually only took 2 hours from start to finish!
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Nicely done, Sir!
Happy memories!
Quote from: fsn on 28 April 2015, 09:29:19 PM
Nicely done, Sir!
Happy memories!
Indeed ! The times that emplacement got conquered by the paratroopers 8-> 8-> 8-> 8->
Mine got conquered by Chief Lazy Dog Sleeps Late of the Ogala tribe. Still, the Wehrmacht conquered the stockade fort a few times too.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 April 2015, 12:23:04 AM
Mine got conquered by Chief Lazy Dog Sleeps Late of the Ogala tribe. Still, the Wehrmacht conquered the stockade fort a few times too.
Think mine got stomped by a dinosaur once too...
Great work, Peter.
Though I certainly collected the Airfix 'armies', I never bothered with many of the kits, so this is a 'new' one to me. :)
Cheers - Phil
I had that one too!
Great set up, good paint job. 8)
my goodness that a blast for the past, I got one of those many years ago one christmas, me and my dad had a great battle once the table was cleared of the dishes, happy days! You have made a grand job of it too! =D>
Nice job there. Never had any of the big Airfix stuff myself but I had loads of the vacuum formed Bellona terrain.
Quote from: petercooman on 28 April 2015, 09:09:25 PM
.. and it actually only took 2 hours from start to finish!
... and it shows! :P
Only joking, Peter. Good work! :-bd
Nicely done :)
Didn't Airfix have another one that had a twin gun or is it my memory playing tricks on me again :D
Quote from: skywalker on 29 April 2015, 11:33:10 AM
Nicely done :)
Didn't Airfix have another one that had a twin gun or is it my memory playing tricks on me again :D
That one was called coastal assault ;)
Quote from: petercooman on 29 April 2015, 12:01:07 PM
That one was called coastal assault ;)
yep I was luck enough to have both ( the coastal assault was second hand though)
I've been really tempted to get one of those recently :D
Cracking!
Quote from: skywalker on 29 April 2015, 11:33:10 AM
Nicely done :)
Didn't Airfix have another one that had a twin gun or is it my memory playing tricks on me again :D
Yep you are spot on and thats the one I got many years ago, hadn't seen this in donkeys so a wee bit confused but it was a cracking kit. :)
Yup. Got one upstairs myself.
Lovely job
This , the pontoon bridge and Le Haye Sainte were the mainstays of many a WW2 battle , with the occasional Bellona Barbarian fort , Sherwood Castle and a Roman marching fort used as well
Quote from: fsn on 29 April 2015, 04:06:20 PM
Yup. Got one upstairs myself.
We used one in our last blitzkrieg commander game, looks gigantic next to 10mm, but was nevertheless great!
I remember at the Penarth Club assaulting one of the big two gun turreted Atlantic wall ones in preparation for the Soviet strike into Denmark :) Great pieces the lot.
I'm now thinking a pontoon bridge would be really handy, for, errr, stuff...
Brings back fond memories, received one as a Christmas present. :)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 April 2015, 06:32:33 PM
I'm now thinking a pontoon bridge would be really handy, for, errr, stuff...
Rivers. That's what pontoon bridges are good for.
I remember this emplacement - don't think I ever painted it, or at most just the sandbags round the gun. It was great for games because you could have troops running along the trenches to the block houses to throw grenades inside.
I did have the big two gun one - but it never seemed as good for games.