Basing the HQ and CO stands proved to take a little longer than I had thought it would. You're basically building a little diorama so I had to keep my grand ideas in check and keep the base functional and quick to build/paint.
My first attempt at 10mm miniature hacks. The passenger has had his head removed and replaced with a commander torso (clipped off at the waist and glued to the neck of the passenger). The radio operator has been removed from his base, he was originally kneeling on the ground, and repositioned to sit on the seat. You can't really tell from the photos but the radio operator is missing his left leg. I had clipped it off and was in the process of gluing it on when after dropping it on the floor for the third &%^%$-ing time I decided to just glue him in as is.
My favorite CO stand has two German officers "discussing" which way to go. I'll model this base as a crossroads with the road sign knocked over or missing.
I'm on the home stretch now with most of the miniatures having varying degrees of paintwork and almost everything based. I'm hoping to get all painting and basing done by Wednesday night. This give me Thursday and Friday to put together some cardstock buildings and base up the trees. Hedgerows may be possible, I'll glue some flock to the dark grey foam I have and see how that comes up.
More photos to come as I get stuff finished.
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