My Uncle Joe was in the Royal Engineers in WW2, and he spent D-Day driving a bulldozer around the beaches. Now I've no idea if it was an armoured one or exactly what he was doing as sadly he died a very long time ago, but I recall him mentioning it to me when I was a kid. I needed some more engineering vehicles and I was very taken with the Battlefield 3D armoured bulldozer, so I ordered one.
And here it is, an armoured bulldozer. I'm not sure of the specific designation but I imagine wikipedia has these sorts of things covered.
A lovely crisp resin print. Single piece so no assembly required. The resin is slightly springy but I'm not sure that very, very thin exhaust pipe will survive handling on the tabletop, but I shall enjoy it while it lasts! I put a bit of rubble inside the dozer blade, it is supposed to be shovelling stuff around after all.
I think that is a winch on the back. I painted the cable an oily metallic colour anyway. There isn't a driver provided so I stuck in a spare tank crewman who looks the part. He should probably be wearing a tin hat rather than a US tankers helmet, but it looks OK.
I just did it overall OD, with perhaps rather more mud over the running gear, hull and dozer blade than usual. Every tracked construction vehicle I've ever seen has usually been filthy. I also did some chipping around the blade as they catch a lot of wear.
That is a very fine addition to my Allied engineering fleet. I just need to flatten some villages so it can come and clear the rubble, although regular readers will recall it's heroic combat debut late last year in the battle for Dom Butgenbach in the Bulge. I shall also think on Uncle Joe motoring around Northwest Europe in one.
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