Maxkee’s Project Log _ Longest Day

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The build continues

Jul 31 2020

Tutoring 9

Skill 8

Idea 10

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company assembled

So the torso’s are cleaned up and glued on the bases and first 24 pairs of arms attached.

I looked into the unit composition around normandy and it seems fairly straightforward. So I sorted what I got and went with 3 platoons of 3 squads each. The squads are 12 people with 1 SMG, 1 Bar and 10 M1 rifles. Some information indicates that units regularly had 2 bars. So might mix it up as I go. Then I have 3 Platoon HQ sections of 5.

The bangalore miniatures will be kept seperate. Because they are so specific to the landing I won’t make it a integral part of the platoons.

Start

Jul 30 2020

Tutoring 9

Skill 8

Idea 12

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Start of the US Infantry

So I got two boxes of warlords ‘The Longest Day’ during their christmas period sale and am now embarking on building and painting it. Update might be a bit irregular but looking forward to sharing the journey with you guys.

So the new US infantry come with the HBT pants with the pockets on the side. To have some variation I trimmed these of roughly half the miniatures to create the brown woolen trousers their wore underneath the HBT trousers.

I also added a box of Rangers. These are the older sculpts so plan on mixing the bits from the sprues up a bit to even the looks out. Mostly I plan on using the heads and arms of the new set on the old bodies.