101st Airborne Normandy WIP Wednesday part one

 101st Airborne Normandy

A project for this Winter /Spring  is my 101st for the Normandy, I purchased some of Simons soldiers, Alder Miniatures and added some other pieces to fill out the units. This way I will now have Arnhem and Normandy US airborne regiments. I need to get the infantry done then I will add AT guns, crewed artillery, jeeps and the glider infantry (in normal US infantry uniform). 

Plan is to build for Rapid Fire 

501st Parachute Infantry Regiment 

502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment 

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment 

327th Glider Infantry Regiment

401st Glider Infantry Regiment

377th Parachute Field Artillery battalion 

321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion 

907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion 

326th Airborne Engineer Battalion 

3 Waco gliders 

2 x C47 aircraft 

Mad March WIP II

 I purchased these last year in preparation to add artillery support to my American Armour, I have also pitched some 155mm towed but need tractors for them to complete the battery. 

These are fast build Italeri, I think I had them built in around 3 hours. Nice little fast build kits although the tracks leave a little to be desired. I will add American crews from Alder or AB after I have painted them. 

Cheers

Matt

WIP 1 Wednesday American 82nd Airborne Normandy

 I Finally have decided to attack my new  Normandy Airborne Americans (I know you do not need both Normandy and Arnhem …. But Different uniforms ….. Oh well the life of a button counter lol). 

I purchased four new battalions of Airborne for Rapid Fire plus support elements from Alder and Simons Soldiers miniatures earlier in the year in Oz and at Partizan along with jeeps from RTR and guns from SHQ and Early War Miniatures. 

I undercoated two battalions on the weekend and have already got the base colours on the guns and jeeps. 

I plan to get them completed next few weeks, then onto the glider troops, more vehicles, Waco gliders, plus some C47 aircraft planned with actual aircraft for the 101st! Then I will commence the 82nd Airborne, and do the same.  

Cheers

Matt

DDay Normandy 2019

This year we had Canadian guests for DDay tours from the 4th to the 8th of June. On the fifth on June we attended the commemorations at Carentan and Sainte Mère Église. We elected to visit both camp Arizona at Carentan and Geronimo at Sainte Mère Église, plus the museum.
The crowds were big as expected, but we entered Carentan from the south west so we could park at the stock yards, and have a short walk to the events. At Sainte Mère Église we managed to get a car park  near the tourist info centre, 40m from the church!

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