discussion Out of fuel and out of ammo ! The Ardennes 1945

[Alan 45]

here's the Marder on a base its quickly thrown together on a little base


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[stona]

Beautiful little vignette.


That fate befell many German vehicles in the Ardennes. A survey of 101 tanks and armoured vehicles destroyed in the Ardennes salient showed that 39 were abandoned or demolished by their crews, almost invariably after running out of fuel, ammo, or both. It was the single highest cause of destruction.


For enthusiasts of air power the survey was not good. 1 was destroyed by a bomb and only 6 others credited as 'possibly' by air attack'


Cheers


Steve

 

[spanner570]

Excellent model Alan....I can see it now.


"What the h**l do we do now, make a snowman?"


Nice one.


Ron

 

[eddiesolo]

Great piece Al, a nice topic well executed. Great board and nice position of vehicle and crew, the scattering of items is just right, the focus is more on the crew.


Si

 

[Guest]

Lovely, just needs A few dents and scuffs on the barrels the top and bottom edges always get chipped to bits and dunted. Unless you have done and I can't see it on my phone?


Great work and lovely base as well

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers guys I appreciate that

Beautiful little vignette.
That fate befell many German vehicles in the Ardennes. A survey of 101 tanks and armoured vehicles destroyed in the Ardennes salient showed that 39 were abandoned or demolished by their crews, almost invariably after running out of fuel, ammo, or both. It was the single highest cause of destruction.


For enthusiasts of air power the survey was not good. 1 was destroyed by a bomb and only 6 others credited as 'possibly' by air attack'


Cheers


Steve

your spot on Steve , history tells of Patton breaking the back of the German lines but in reality it was more the Germans lost the war of attrition, some credit can be given to the allied airforces for stopping most of the supply lines but as you say it was pretty awful on the tank destroying front

Lovely, just needs A few dents and scuffs on the barrels the top and bottom edges always get chipped to bits and dunted. Unless you have done and I can't see it on my phone?
Great work and lovely base as well

there is some around the areas that you can see in real life bit I painted the barrels in metalcote so it's not showing up in the pics

 

[colin m]

Looks nice. A lot of detail in a small scene.

 

[bazers]

Liked it before looks great now its on a basel.

 

[Guest]

Excellent mate nice dio.


Scott

 

[takeslousyphotos]

Superb Job Alan........... The Marder and the guy on it look frozen solid............. Superb Detail. I really like it.

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers guys I know you've all seen the model I just thought it looked better on the base


Thanks for the great comments

 

[monica]

do real like this one Alan,very nice detail on the crew and marder,


set into the scene.well,and looks like ice on the ground,great build,

 

[Guest]

Superb Alan, this great.

 

[Guest]

Awesome looking Marder Alan,very nicely done Sir!

 

[aaron]

Nice build pal, is the base a Matt or did you lay all the tufts yourself?

 

[Guest]

Superb job Alan great eye for detail.

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers guys I appreciate that

Nice build pal, is the base a Matt or did you lay all the tufts yourself?

This is the mat type , I got it at Telford last year , they are good and you can cut them to the size you need but it's very difficult to get stuff to stick on them as there very spongy , I don't think I'd get another one