This is the first of three posts covering the ground crew figures I have for use in Megablitz games. With a game area that can sometimes run to a scale 200km long, airfields do sometimes appear on table. This gives us the excuse (and assuming we want aircraft to make more then one sortie, the need) to field ground crew figures.
This post will look at some (by by no means all) of the figures from the USAAF Ground Crew set. This was the second of the Airfix ground crew series to be launched - in 1974. Further posts will cover the RAF and Luftwaffe sets. For some lovely photos (not mine then) of the Airfix NATO Ground Crew set, have a look at Paul's Bods - http://paulsbods.blogspot.com/2011/01/airfix-nato-ground-crew.html
I painted these chaps a few years ago but have recently had to re-base them as the original plastic bases had warped into comical but not very useful shapes. They are based as pairs on 30x30mm bases and are seen here shamelessly posed on one of my airfields tending to a couple of P-38 squadrons.
7 comments:
very nice Tim, that's an area I've yet to work on airfields and other
installations.
Don
One of the reasons I like 'Operational' level games is that they provide a use for all the weird s**t we all have - ground crews, bombers, heavy artillery, field kitchens etc. Some gamers need convincing, but I can tell I'm pushing at an open door in your case!
LOL, sad but all too true, I have a full city worth of buildings in 15mm in both destroyed and undamaged states....you know before and after photo...)
That is bizzare eh? As I said, great minds :-)
Good to see the Airfix bods getting used...nice one and I think you´ve painted them well :-D
Cheers
paul
Ps...I´ll link this up on my post.
Thanks Paul - they had 20 years in a box to 'mature', so it's about time they were revealed to a wider audience!
Great work and to see these, do you need one stand per Sqn?
Thanks Paul and West
The GC stands are used to 'repair' lost SPs suffered by aircraft units. I took liberties with the photos but there'd usually only be 1 or 2 GC stands at an airfield. Heavier aircraft need the services of GC with cranes etc. Can you see what's coming?
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