"More Brits for CoC" Topic

I've added a section of infantry and 2 PSC Churchills. This was also the occasion to shoot some pics of the factory I printed in 3 D

The infantry is mostly Italeri, with the Zvezda Recce team (must say I'm really impressed with the sculpt of this set,got a few more Zvezda on the way)

Churchills : I find the Churchill is already a busy shape, so I dispensed with adding stowage altogether.

Mk VI

AVRE (the tanker is an old Retrokit figure that has sat on the stack for ages)

Love the tanks. Churchill looks such an anachronism for 1944, but there it was. Such a dated look but decent armour thickness. The AVRE officer needs to get his head down a bit more. I have a notion (this is an Irish expression suggesting that I have absolutely no evidence for what I am about to say) but my "notion" is that AVREs did not have the front track covers. The tracks were exposed. Je pense,

First thing any infantry did was ditch the gasmasks, on front of their chest, also, esp by 1944.

Love the photography also and it will break my heart if it just from a phone like my three sons and granddaughters use. I want to hear f numbers, AV etc

Thanks for the feedback and the advice. I'd found out for the early webbing, but didn't know for the AVRE mudguards. Well, I'll confess I've just followed a pic on the CoC rulebook and did not doo lots of research .

For the photography, I have a Canon EOS 1100D which is still fairly basic. I'd started with a macro lens, but found later that the lens provided with the camera gave better results. The trick is having appropriate lighting (100W white bulbs) from several directions (think of the lighting for a night football game) prenventing parts of the mini to remain in the shade. I'm also using the auto settings, if the lighting is OK, it works well. My camera stands on a tripod about 2 feet away .

Many thanks for that info. I thought that, with that depth of focus, you must be using some impressive illumination and a long exposure.

I found many a model of an AVRE with the front mudguards but, after Googling images of the real thing, not one in WWII with them in situ. But without them you could not show the Div badge and that adds to its appeal. Is it Guards Armoured?

Just to add to deadhead's commentary. David Doyle's second volume on the Churchill tank (Churchill based vehicles) covers the AVRE on pages 13-43. Except for some prototypes none of the AVREs have the front mudguards. A caption on page 21 includes the statement "The front mudguards wee often removed from Curchills, because they were easily damaged and frequently clogged up with earth."

Nice Churchill's.

The recon team are for 1940 and hence the gas masks which were gone by 1943/44.

It may be the light but the khaki looks very reddish brown on the troops but great on the tankers.

Best wishes,

Chris