I made more headway last weekend on my Cold War forces for the late 1970s-early 1980s. I assembled a number of vehicles models, mounted a company each of German and French infantry, and got everything primed.
The infantry are Flames of War miniatures, and I included alternate figs with Carl Gustaf and Milan for earlier and later German infantry sections.
Additionally, I assembled 9x VAB-VCI, a 1950s/1960s QRF Soviet truck, and also a British truck. One VAB and the British truck were each missing a tire, so I'll need to fabricate a replacement for each.
The VABs were old QRF models which came with that weird hatch configuration. I never have figured out a proper mounting for that, so I plan to make my own and fit it to them. Previously, i had four of the their VAB-VCIs and I scratch built hatches for them with M2 machineguns.
I've seen various fixtures on VABs over the years, and intend to make a slight variation of my originals on the next 10 vehicles.
The photos about show two bare metal QRF VABs, one painted, and a printed model from a French manufacturer. One of the QRF models has no hatch, one has a part fitted and the others demonstrate hatch configurations with an M2 mounted.
I'm going to produce an original similar to that of the printed model, where the open split hatch becomes side protective plates when open, and cast it for my QRF models. That is the version of hatch arrangement that I made
for my 4 older QRF VABs, but the M2 configuration was a little different. This one will be similar to the printed model.
I'll have to make a little mold and cast them which will slow progress down a little, but have plenty of primed figs to paint, so should stay busy for a little while.
