Canadian Sherman Troop (Last of the Canucks!)

I finally finished up my Sherman Troop. And that pretty much finishes up the Canadians (well... except for the universal carrier…)

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The Shermans are all from West Wind Productions. The Firefly I had finished up previously. These chaps are painted as a troop from B Squadron of the 1st Canadian Hussars (6th Armoured Regiment, 2nd Independent Canadian Armoured Brigade) who were in direct support of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade on D-Day.

I had originally planned on doing these as a step-by-step… but I just don’t have the time right now…


I also happen to finally finish up the 6-Pounder AT gun. The crew I had finished some time ago. Crew and gun are all from Artizan Designs.

The whole Canadian force so far…


There’s a mix of Artizan Designs, Bolt Action Miniatures, Black Tree Design, West Wind Productions, Crusader Miniatures, and First Corps. They have been painted with the shoulder titles of the Regina Rifle Regiment (7th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division).

I’m six riflemen shy of two full-strength rifle platoons. It’ll probably be a while before I pick them up because when would they have ever gone into action with nine – let alone a full ten!?

Supporting the Rifle platoons are two tubes of 3” mortars and their crews from the battalion’s Mortar Platoon, a six-pounder from the Anti-Tank Platoon, a couple sappers from the Pioneer Platoon, moving and firing Vickers teams from the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (the divisional MG Battalion), a scout car from the 7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars – the Divisional Reconnaissance Regiment), and the aforementioned troop of Shermans from the 1st Hussars (6th Armoured Regiment, 2nd Independent Canadian Armoured Brigade – who were in direct support of the 7th Brigade on D-Day).

Oh and a bunch of casualties… and the Battalion Chaplain (complete with silver cross and brace of sharpened wooden stakes – in case things get a little… weird…)

The only outstanding Canadian item is a Universal Carrier. I guess I could use it to tow the AT gun around… but I’m not feeling really motivated to get it done any time soon. It’s a Tamiya plastic 1/48 model I picked up to see how close it might be in scale. It’s not too far off… but if I were to want any more carriers at some point I’d just buy a whole new lot and replace it as I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything close to a resin cast 28mm model…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Maybe some T-34s… maybe something Sci-fi-ish or pulpy… WE shall see…. I would like to finish up the T-34s because it’s the last of the Soviet stuff I have. I’ve actually got the East Front Campaigngoing again too so they’d potentially be handy in the short term – although the only opponents I have for them are the Pzkw38t and the StugD… (oh, and the doorknocker Pak36 AT gun).

Sherman Troop: Part Two

I'm starting to wonder if I’ve bit off more than I can chew trying to paint all three at the same time!? From this point I may very well end up finishing off one at a time (in very rapid succession!). We’ll see. I think I’ll finish off the rest of the Gebirgsjäger first, then jump back into these with both feet!

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All blacked up and ready for painting… and attached to bases. I wonder if I should affix the turrets to a base of their own – just for something to hold onto while painting…?

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

More Gebirgsjäger… Painting the Shermans… WW2 Canadian Infantry… ECW Scotts!? Epic Scale Eldar!? I don’t know…

Sherman Troop: Part One

I thought I’d do another step-by-step build of the Sherman troops I have (like I did with the Humber….


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Here’s all the bits ready to go.

The models are from West Wind Productions. I picked them up earlier this summer when they were having a crazy 40% off sale… with the pound in the tank it was the quickest cheapest way to put together a Sherman troop to support the Canadian infantry I’ve been doing in 28mm.


After giving the resin bodies a good scrub it was time to do a bit of cleaning up. Most of them had a bit of goop to clear up at the back end of under hull – an area that will never be seen, but it had to be cleared out as it got in the way of attaching the tracks.

Other than that there were not bubbles or other flaws in the resin body, There was a bit of a seam around the turrets that needed to be carved/filed off… as well as some of the other metal bits.


Assembled.

I was going to do two buttoned up but somehow only did one…

The one in the middle I’ve already started applying the black gesso to the undercarriage – which I will do on all of them before fixing them to their bases.

I would have liked to load these up with stowage… but I have a LOT of stuff to paint and not heaps of time, so I just can’t be bothered at this point to mess around with that sort of thing. At some point, when I have less stuff to do and/or a surplus of time to work on such projects and/or a greater desire to individualize models… I can add some then!

These, as with the Sherman Firefly will be part of B Squadron, 1st Canadian Hussars (6th Armoured Regiment). The Hussars were part of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade (Independent), which supported the Third Canadian Infantry Division in Normandy. B Squadron of the Hussars was in direct support of the Regina Rifles on D-Day.