Funny how AHPC pops up in a pro cycle race!
Well Mr Tadaj Pogacar won Strada Bianche (three times in a row and four times overall - setting records).
The route is in Tuscany and the finish line is the famous city of Siena.
You could almost imagine a fifteenth century army marching through a wintry scene like the one above.
The finish is in the Piazza del Campo home of the famous Palio di Siena horse race.
The race itself crisscrosses the tuscan hills on dusty white roads
It even runs near the battlesite of Montaperti which we all learnt about in AHPC15 - concerning Dantes Inferno...
Nothing like an Italian Medieval City to inspire some painting although in my case its more modern, yet possibly something like this may have been in the allied armies struggling up the spine of Italy in 1944.
This week then its slightly less "sinews of war" and more "sharp end" equipment in the form of an anti aircraft gun.
The model is a kit from Airfix now sold under their "vintage" label. I bought it last year on a trip to the Monkbar Model Shop in York, UK. An Aladdins cave for modellers and brick built into the bargain.
I really like the Morris tractor which has an early war look about it.
The bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun was a very successful design. Swedish firm Bofors was according to the internet part owned by Krupp of Germany but the gun development was kept secret and became an international best seller certainly for allied armies as well as the axis forces.
I have modelled the gun in transport mode. The kit allows the gun to traverse and elevate easily.
Painting wise it was vallejo black prime then Vallejo Game Colour Extra Opaque heavy grey in two coats and then two coats of vallejo matt varnish. vallejo black model colour took care of the tyres. vallejo dark sand overcoated with citadel seraphim sepia wash dealt with the canvas elements. The driver got the sepia wash over his green uniform, black boots and hair and VJ flat flesh skintone for that campaign look!
2 vehicles - a tractor plus a gun in 1/76 = 2 x 15 points = 30 points.
Not sure if this qualifies for another squirrel but I will give it a go.
Breaker, breaker one nine, we got a convoy here. What a great bit of kit for convoy protection John, though I don't envy putting together all the fiddly bits that these kits must have included. It looks really impressive on your table top - I've really been enjoying the buildings and backdrop that you use BTW. I also really like the details and weathering on that fabric cowling. I will leave squirrel adjudication to the Squirrelmaster, but can confirm the 30 points.
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