Hi All,
Our latest shoot is up, just a small one to get us through the winter months.
http://www.vonabt.co.uk/dios/paraHQ/index.html
Just to give a bit of background, it's a shoot I never thought I would see happen as it involved having to redo every single glider troop that was cobbled together quickly for the Peg Bridge shoot many years ago. That task was so painful and tedious back then that the paras have been sitting in a tub for years. (I can't think of any other WWII figure that requires so much tinkering, replacement berets, recut puttees, repaint webbing, cut the boots down etc) all stuff that seems small when your building one of two but a pain in large numbers.
All that changed when I won a Airborne Howitzer a while back on ebay. It gave me drive to look at them again and then Peter knocked one out of the park by building a 1:6th scaled up version of the old Airfix 1:72 command post which I used to love when I was a kid.
Anyway I'm going to stop before I start rambling on about Action Man British Paras being my favorite all those years ago etc etc
As always full shoot can be seen here
http://www.vonabt.co.uk/dios/paraHQ/index.html
And we enjoy your feedback as always (unless its why there not more paras!!)
Our latest shoot is up, just a small one to get us through the winter months.
http://www.vonabt.co.uk/dios/paraHQ/index.html
Just to give a bit of background, it's a shoot I never thought I would see happen as it involved having to redo every single glider troop that was cobbled together quickly for the Peg Bridge shoot many years ago. That task was so painful and tedious back then that the paras have been sitting in a tub for years. (I can't think of any other WWII figure that requires so much tinkering, replacement berets, recut puttees, repaint webbing, cut the boots down etc) all stuff that seems small when your building one of two but a pain in large numbers.
All that changed when I won a Airborne Howitzer a while back on ebay. It gave me drive to look at them again and then Peter knocked one out of the park by building a 1:6th scaled up version of the old Airfix 1:72 command post which I used to love when I was a kid.
Anyway I'm going to stop before I start rambling on about Action Man British Paras being my favorite all those years ago etc etc
As always full shoot can be seen here
http://www.vonabt.co.uk/dios/paraHQ/index.html
And we enjoy your feedback as always (unless its why there not more paras!!)