I like to include some crew figures in my little 15mm (1:100) model tanks, both to give a sense of scale, and also so that it doesn't look like a bunch of autonomous robot machines tootling about on the wargames table.
I think the Nashorn actually had a crew of about six, but any more than these two in the fighting compartment would be unfeasibly crowded, so these guys are symbolic of the crew rather than actually representative of it as a whole.
I kitbashed these figures from a bunch of others. The main bodies came from 3dBreed, but things like hats and helmets and shells and so forth I made myself and added to the cut-up original figures. They were printed on my Mars Pro resin printer.
Looks great. Adding crew makes these into real vehicles (US tank destroyers with the empty crew compartment or just tank commander halves bother me to no end)
ReplyDeleteIn actual action would the whole crew be in the fighting compartment, or would 1-2 of them be outside moving shells? (presuming of course that they had a full crew)
Most "in action" photos that I have found show 2-4 people outside and 2-3 inside. Gun layer and loader inside for certain. Commander probably to the rear and possibly stood on the rear loading shelf. At least 2 outside humping shells. The driver was probably double-hatted as a shell-mover (Nos 4 or 5 in RA terms?)
ReplyDeleteRegards, Chris.