ANZACS and the return of 'Them', ( & Cthulu Kong, Goldylocks etc!))

Having done the 1st Milestone of this extended project, in finishing my Moderns, as I said in previous update I knuckled down this week and Finished all the Armour I had for Black Suns.

Way more than I really need  but this project started off as an homage to my long gone 20mm Vietnam project back in the 1980’s.

Now the push to completion was promoted by me watching a review of the Cavalier show in Feb on YouTube. The blogger did a video view of the traders and one ‘Full Metal Minatures’ caught my eye ( found on https://www.fullmetalminiatures.com/) , particularly the model of an Australian Fire Support M113 with the Saladin Turret, so one order later with an additional Sheridan Tank.

Now I had a slight bit of trepidation in how big it would be when compared to my Rubicon M113’S, but can happily confirm it is a perfect match.

So This week was let’s finish all the vehicles that were sitting in various stages of completion.

I have previously shown that I finally completed my NVA armour, So now I quickly built the FSV and the Sheridan, plus I finally got round to building my final  Rubicon M113 ( back in stock) which I did as the ACAV variant.

Initially I concentrated on completing the Australian’s armour, which consisted of the M113 FSV, an M106 Mortar Carrier and an M577 command variant M113.

This was mainly as it would involve less crew figur painting than would later American armour.

Now an a side on the M106, this is a well supplied kit in that you get enough bits and crew to have a vehicle mounted Motar and one dismounted. In theory there is only enough crew for one, but unless you intend to show the Interior  there is only enough room to show one in vehicle,  so the other 2 got based for the deployed Mortar( to be painted later).

All the decals mainly come from the Rubicon M133 sheets which do have Australian sets amongst them, vehicle names are from the Rubicon Centurions which contains a nice selection of names in different styles.

Finally we have for this update the M113 FSV , I have added a ‘borrowed ‘, ACAV M60 with Sheild , photos show a hatch mounted .30 cal, but as with my Centurions,  decided , in Ltd supply in Black Suns they would want to keep the.30 ammo for the co.ax, and use the more numerous M60 ammo for the hatch gun.