Hi all,
Some small progress, having given both AFVs a basic coat of colour…sounds like a song from a musical, 
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I’ve shown them in-situ, along with beach obstacles positioned, but not fixed.
Still loads to do, but getting there…slowly, 
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Cheers, 
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G
Thats looking super mate. Really nice movement in a solid compact little scene … you are going to need a ton of clutter strewn about though … that first day would of been manic …
Looking good G-Man. Interesting that the Centaur kit has the bolted ring for the Hull MG position and not the flat circular blanking plate. It probably needs to be a much darker colour for SCC2. This colour pic is way off colour balance, but it still shows how dark SCC2 is. Like my Sexton.
Another wartime colour pic of SCC2 on a Churchill:
@petbat Peter, would D-Day Churchill’s be SCC #2 or SCC15 or some of both?
Thanks
The orders came out not too long before D-Day. They were for frontline fighting vehicles to be repainted as the priority prior to D-Day, but support (artillery, soft skins, etc) were to take a back seat for the make over. Even so, there was not enough time to repaint everything and from what I have read, a lot of the earlier mark Churchills that went to Normandy did so in SCC2. However, the later marks (most VI and later) were being painted SCC15 during production, so yes there were both colours present post D-Day in Normandy.
We do know the Centaurs were SCC2. The Centaurs were expected to be artillery support firing from LST’s and were never expected to actually disembark - hence them not being repainted.
LCTs, specifically LCT(A)s were the intended platform for Centaurs but in the event some standard LCT5s were used. Priests were to fire from LCT4s, Centaurs from LCT5s LSTs were not used close inshore in the first tide. Once the beaches were cleared of enemy the LSTs could be used. On British and Canadian beaches, the first ashore were infantry and DD tanks, then funnies and more infantry, then motorised artillery with more infantry, all landed in the first 2 hours
Thanks, yes LCT’s…
Other than AVREs, were there any Churchill gun tanks whatsoever present on D Day? I’ve always been slightly confused over the issue; I didn’t think there were.
'Grateful for something definitive; I may of course, have just missed a trick, having read a fair bit over the decades.
I can’t remember seeing Churchills in the first tide loading tables for Juno or Sword apart from AVREs but I haven’t read much further than that
Wow - that’s drilling down a fair bit! Thanks for that.
As an aside, I believe that’s a pic of a post-war AVRE with a 165mm demolition gun.
I’m more and more inclined to believe there were no gun tanks ashore on D Day itself; after all, they were all in the Independent Tank Brigades, to be landed later I think(!)
Thanks to John and Peter for their feedback, much appreciated as always chaps, 
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I think I need to study some more images John of the sort of detritus that would likely be cluttering the beach.
I hope that as I add some washes that it might darken down Peter, .
G,
Hi all,
Started to add some tonal colour to the Centaur, it always looks a tad harsh at this stage, but will hopefully blend in as things progress, .
Cheers, ,
G
I’m liking it already … looks nice mate.
Now that is coming along very nicely now.
It does indeed look the biz; but just one thing, would it not have been better to apply the markings etc before the washes and tonal touches?
Has been awhile, I have made some progress with the glider finished window install after a weeklong hunt for two missing windows I have found them, and all windows are now installed as are the doors. I have finished the cockpit assembly and should be gluing entire fuselage together later on this evening. Already have floor installed will be making the glider with the nose fixed closed. hopefully should have some paint in the next two to four weeks.
TinyDog01
Nice progress and looking good. 
