Your Munga looks wonderful Brian, even if it fought you all the way. I think it actually compliments the Munga’s funky shape with the glossy black.
Well, thanks Chaps! All very encouraging. Hopefully, all the colours will help make this interesting: the black vehicle, the khaki uniforms and white webbing of the Royal Military Police, let alone their red caps. Then there’s the colour-contrasts of the opposition - the stone-grey uniform of the officer and the camouflaged efforts of the soldiers, all against the sombre grey of the cobbles (in which I will pick out individual cobbles in contrasting colours) and the drabness of the wall.
Or that’s the plan; easy enough to jot down but the execution - that’s another matter(!)
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Thought I’d revisit the Concept of Ops just to check it’ll all work out:
I’ve got to redo the canopy on the Munga, in addition to fitting the screen, blue light, antenna and a Driver, let alone the all important markings. The rest is just laid out for planning purposes. I think it’ll be quite busy but should work. There will be more NVA figures.
The blocks in a row indicate where there will be some concrete-based stanchions and extensive barbed wire. The NVA figures will hopefully, represent something like these hoods (and also the wire):
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No reason why Milliput shouldn’t work Brian. I’ve used it for years and despite seeing some adverse comments on it, I still use it a lot. I even have a friend who scratch build some 1/32 wings on a WWI Morane Saulnier monoplane, using rolled milliput as the fabric covering! He got a commended at the UK Nationals!
Great thread this by the way!
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Another way Brian, slightly sticky, is tissue paper, gives some scale thickness.
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Of course it does - it’s all too easy these days to forget the old tried and tested.
The canopies don’t seem to have been folded or stowed particularly neatly:
so I’ve plenty of scope I reckon. Thanks for the reminder.
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Thanks Terry; whilst there is better stuff around it’ll do me I feel. Magic Sculp or similar springs to mind but I recall was quite expensive and I’m not sure how obtainable (and “No” I haven’t Googled just yet).
As an aside did you say you were going to post some pics from Telford, or have I missed them?
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Good point, I think I forgot! Where is the best place to post them on here? Maybe in the shows section.
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Just an historical correction; I’ve since found out that the building of the actual wall, ie concrete slabs, blocks etc didn’t happen necessarily overnight. The respective areas were sealed off first with troops and barbed wire, so I’ll have to amend the scenario slightly (though not the actual build).
It also means I’ll have to get a new nameplate made as hitherto - and jumping the gun a bit - I was too specific with it bearing the date of 13 August.
I still think the scenario will make sense though - an RMP patrol arguing the toss with an NVA officer.
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I think as long as you capture the overall atmosphere of that specific period in history it will be fine- looks like you’ve certainly done that Brian. Maybe show part of the wall still under construction I think is what you mean?
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Exactly - I’m just cross with myself for getting the nameplate done with too specific a date on. In this case I thought I could be exact, so went for it. It’s not a show stopper by any means.
The figures might be - I’ve discovered that the Alanger/ICM NVA figures will need far more work than I first thought!
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More work on the Munga; stowed canopy now sculpted and in place.
A couple of shots of the progress including the Brit issue fire extinguisher in place - just discernible, with a painted wall section in the background:
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Nice work on the canopy. Turned out well.
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I like the canopy too. What did you use in the end?
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Thanks John - trying to get a flavour of how the thing looked as per the pics above.
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Erwin, in the end I used Milliput; I’d ordered some Magic Sclup but it didn’t turn up quite quickly enough and I wanted to get a move on. The loose strap is from lead foil.
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Looks very effective… 
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Hi Brian,
just found these figure on Scalemates. Looks like the only figure in Blumentarn.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/sarmat-resin-srsf35010-ddr-nva-officer-east-germany-army-1950-1967–1563597
BTW Strichtarn was started fielding in 1965.
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Not uninteresting but my God he looks fat!
I’ve been testing the Alanger/ICM figures; to my great annoyance it looks as though any substitution using Hornet Heads may not work as the figures are just too small.
I’ll have to keep working at it. Hornet Heads might work once I’ve bulked out the smocks. Hoefuly I can find a way to fix it. They’re sort of key to the whole idea really.
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Could be some Volkskommissar or Politoffizier?
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