This past Saturday, members of the HAWKs (Harford Area Weekly Kreigspielers) got together to work on painting a second Armies for Kids project for next year's Historicon. The club had already decided to do a 40mm American Civil War project for Historicon 2015 based on generous donations from Maynard Creel, Ed Mohrmann, and Phil Kearnan. And, since the ACW project was so far along, the club decided to start another quick and easy project based on a large box of assorted WWII plastic 1/72 infantry that had also been donated by Ed Mohrmann.
Hawks members Buck Surdu and Duncan Adams had spray primed the over 1500 plastic WWII figures with either khaki for Allies, or grey for Germans, and mounted them on sticks in preparation for Saturday's painting bee. And for a few hours that morning we sat around and gave basic paint jobs to about 750, mainly American, Allied infantry. After a late midday lunch break, with sore backs and cramped hands, the painters broke out the Red Dragon Inn game and played that to unwind.
The plan now is to get together another time after the holidays to paint the German half of the project. There were some support weapons included in the lot of figures, but what we'd really like is if someone could donated some 1/72 tanks, so each kid could get a tank with each army. So, if anyone has some old tanks they no longer want, please let us know.
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| Even Edward the cat wanted to help. |
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| But , alas, was defeated by his lack of opposable thumbs. |
Howdy! I saw from your most recent post that there will be 6 40mm sets. How many WWII sets will there be?
ReplyDeleteI have some Roco tanks that are unemployed, but they are mostly Russian. There are some Germans, whichmight work, unless you guys get enough 1/72 stuff to put stuff in each set. Maybe the smaller scale tanks would work in sets that don't use 1/72?
Either way, best regards and again my congrats on the great thing you guys are doing for the kids!
Chris Johnson