Post by DuckyShot on Nov 8, 2022 16:42:26 GMT -6
So I've really started to get interested in Canadian WW2 history and Canadian Armor in general. The Universal Carrier has intrigued me and I've been compiling some color plates for my own use. So I've been talking back and forth with Printscale and they gave me the greenlight today to send in enough to make up a decal sheet. There's so many nice Riich kits around now along with the old Tamiya stalwarts so I wanted to get a good assortment of variants, so we got MK I's, MK II's and a couple Wasps. It's exciting and nerve wracking at the same time knowing they will be looked at by the usual rivet counters when they are produced. But here are the 9 carrier profiles I am sending in.
1 from Italy (still contemplating sending in a second Saskatoon Light Infantry profile)
1 from Dieppe (the only one from Dieppe)
2 from the Netherlands
5 from D-Day/Normandy/England buildup
Only one duplicate unit right now.
Doing a lot of checking and I can only see one of these has ever been made in 1/35 decals (the Dieppe raid carrier) and it was about 20 years ago and has been out of print for a while. I've also done looking through other Canadian armor historians and they have a lot of these made up on color plates, but not all and I see a few errors here and there that I've gotten corrected on my analysis. (and recognize that there will be a few errors in mine as well). But there are several that I don't see that anyone has analyzed and made up into color plates before, especially the North Nova Scotia ones. I stumbled across a unidentified picture of a knocked out carrier at Caen, pinpointed the area, found that the North Nova's had pushed through that area the day before the picture was taken. I then did some more digging and found a video clip of 12th SS panzer Div's CO Fritz Witt riding around in a captured North Nova carrier looking at knocked out Sherbrooke Fusilier tanks on June 8th. This rang a bell in my mind and I did some looking and June 7th and 8th were when elements of the 12th SS executed upwards of 150 Canadian prisoners, mostly of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers and North Nova's.
But anyways, here they are, if you have any knowledge of British or Canadian markings, feel free to critique before I send them off.
1 from Italy (still contemplating sending in a second Saskatoon Light Infantry profile)
1 from Dieppe (the only one from Dieppe)
2 from the Netherlands
5 from D-Day/Normandy/England buildup
Only one duplicate unit right now.
Doing a lot of checking and I can only see one of these has ever been made in 1/35 decals (the Dieppe raid carrier) and it was about 20 years ago and has been out of print for a while. I've also done looking through other Canadian armor historians and they have a lot of these made up on color plates, but not all and I see a few errors here and there that I've gotten corrected on my analysis. (and recognize that there will be a few errors in mine as well). But there are several that I don't see that anyone has analyzed and made up into color plates before, especially the North Nova Scotia ones. I stumbled across a unidentified picture of a knocked out carrier at Caen, pinpointed the area, found that the North Nova's had pushed through that area the day before the picture was taken. I then did some more digging and found a video clip of 12th SS panzer Div's CO Fritz Witt riding around in a captured North Nova carrier looking at knocked out Sherbrooke Fusilier tanks on June 8th. This rang a bell in my mind and I did some looking and June 7th and 8th were when elements of the 12th SS executed upwards of 150 Canadian prisoners, mostly of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers and North Nova's.
But anyways, here they are, if you have any knowledge of British or Canadian markings, feel free to critique before I send them off.