- Scale
- 1:35
- Size
- 280 mm
- Category
- Diorama
Churchill Mk VII in the Bocage
A 1:35 Churchill pushing through a Normandy hedgerow, mud to the sponsons.
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Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 11x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
Dad drove tanks, so the Churchill was always going to be the big one. This is a Mk VII as it would have looked nosing through the bocage in the summer of 1944: hedgerows taller than the turret, lanes cut down to the clay, and every surface carrying a little of the field it just crossed.
The hull is built up from a kit, but almost everything you can see has been reworked. The tracks are link-by-link and took three evenings on their own. The hedge is sea moss and hand-punched paper leaves, about four thousand of them, glued on with tweezers while the radio played. The mud is pigment, plaster and a little tea from the bottom of my cup, which is the only way I have found to get that greenish Normandy brown.
It sits on a turned rimu base with a brass name plate. The crew hatch lifts off if you are careful, and there is a tin of bully beef on the engine deck for anyone who looks closely enough.
— Sunanda