Crusader 3

 

This is another FDM print I did some time ago, but unlike the Crusader 2 in my last post, this one was split latitudinally, both hull and turret, and printed in pieces sitting vertically on the build plate.

That gave me much better print quality, with the down-side that the gun, when printed vertically, was extremely weak. So I replaced it with a piece of brass.

I have more Crusader models in the collection, but in my view you can never have too many of them. 

Once again, the scale is 1:100 (15mm).

Crusader 2

 

I found this FDM print I did some years ago and decided to do something with it.

The Crusader is maybe the worst possible choice for FDM printing, with all its gently sloping plates. The layer lines are pretty hideous, but from a distance on the table it looks okay. I guess.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Caunter scheme: I love to look at it, but I hate painting it.

The Crusader 2 only overlapped with the Caunter scheme by a few months, but there were a few — a very few — that were painted in it for Operation Crusader.

As usual, scale is 1:100 (15mm)

Dingo

 

Here's a spot of recce capability for my 15mm North Africa / Mediterranean WWII Brits, a cute little Daimler Dingo armoured car.

The base model, as is so often the case, is by Bergman. I've just added a couple of crewmen and some more detailed wheels. I don't think there would be much point in any further refinement than that for my purposes.

As always, all the 3d modelling has been done in Blender. 

Printing went well enough, though one of them had an incomplete starboard-front wheel for some reason — I have no idea why, because all three were identical on the build-plate. Hey-ho. I just printed some spare wheels and glued one into the space I chopped out of the incomplete model.

I'm not all that happy with the colour these have ended up; it's rather too dark for North Africa, and completely wrong for Normandy. Maybe they'll do for Italy.