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4 CMBG in West Germany 1982 - ROCO 1/87 M109 Howitzer


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Canada, along with other NATO forces, kept a presence in West Germany from 1957 to 1993 as 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.  Here we have some Canucks working on getting their M109 set up for a big combined forces exercise in 1982.  The M109 is the only thing here that wasn't either 3D printed or scratchbuilt.  This was my first attempt at a small-scale cam net, which wasn't a complete failure, though I did learn what not to do after several tries.  It's a piece of stretched gauze with crushed up leaves from my yard glued to it, but I think it looks okay.  This was also my first attempt at evergreen trees.  Everything was painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with Abteilung oils.

 

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Thanks!  For the trees, I bought a Christmas wreath of fake pine boughs with the thin plastic needles, then cut off a few different lengths and brushed glue all over everything.  Then I dusted them with static grass and painted them when dry.

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