Based on an extremely helpful chart found here I worked out the unit marking for A Squadron of the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards Regiment.
The unit consists of three Airfix M4 A1 Sherman tanks and one Revell re-issue of the Matchbox Firefly variant Sherman. All unit markings and insignia are hand painted as I've never had the patience for transfer sheets and I wanted to practice my freehand. The tanks were spray undercoated black and then airbrushed with Games Workshop's Catachan Green. Details are GW paints again, with Badab Black used as a final wash to dirty them up a bit.
All in all, not a bad start to the project, even if they did take a long time. Hopefully I'll manage a more consistant work rate with the rest of the units.
Nice, good luck with the project.
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A Bridge to far, is one of my favourite movies, I look forward to more posts and pics.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a few more shots of your Shermans, I quite like the colour!
Great stuff -
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I'm digging into the Nijmegen bridge crossing onto the island & mysterious failure to move to relieve Arnhem.
'If they had carried on their advance, it would have been all over for us.' said Heinz Harmel later.
http://www.arrse.co.uk/military-history-militaria/93721-17th-september-1944-operation-market-garden-7.html
- and I played the entire Market Garden Highway To The Reich game over 3-4 months with 2 school friends when I was 16 years old.
Do you have the configurations - just reading the 2011 book 'We Fought At Arnhem' and it talks about two 'companies' of Irish Guards - does he really mean platoons? What could they be?
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He means Companies. At the time it was 1 HQ Company, 1 Support Company and 4 Rifle Companies to the Battalion.
DeleteLooking at the numbers I have found here and there and the suggestion that the Irish Guards were fighting with the Infantry and Tank Battalions brigaded together for support that *probably* means somewhere in the region of 120-150 men with 17 Shermans.