Following the successful refurbishment of a pair of Lone Star diecast Carriers for Soviet service (
Link) I dug out more. This one was acquired complete with the (so I’m told) very rare metal Para crew. The carrier needed a full repaint but for the crew I confined myself to repairing the existing paint - though I decided I couldn’t live with the grey helmets. I also added length the the MG barrel with a piece of wooden cocktail stick. Going by the ammo belt this is intended to represent a Vickers gun. Decals and serial numbers finished it off.
6 comments:
Excellent paint work Tim, it looks great and I'm sure that it will come in handy for your future battles!
Very nice indeed, the perfect amount of toy soldierness..
Some lovely work Tim. Did not know about metal crew. I decided to stick with the grey helmets, a bit of nostalgia for the old LS toys of the 1960s, but could find no evidence for their historical use. I do like your paintwork additions to the BGC.
Michael
Brad DeSantis
I do have a suitable game in mind…
Tradgardmastare
Thanks Alan - very nicely put!
MGB
If by chance your paras and mine ever end up in the same game at least we’ll be able to tell them apart!
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