{"id":5697,"date":"2015-08-17T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2015-08-14T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:33:11","slug":"painting-the-stewart-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/08\/painting-the-stewart-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Stewart Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Treadaway made an excellent job of painting his Stewart forces<\/a> when he added them to the Hammer’s Slammers website last year. I was lucky enough to see them close-up earlier this year in a game at Maidstone<\/a> (albeit from the wrong end of their gun barrels !) and was struck by the extra mile he goes with the addition of stowage and crew figures to his vehicles.<\/p>\n

Suitably inspired, I decided that I wanted a Stewart detachment of my own, so set about putting one together. I also wanted to use the new Glengarry-hatted infantry<\/a>, which weren’t available when John was assembling his forces. <\/p>\n

I started by cleaning the resin castings in soap and water and letting them dry. I then assembled the vehicles, which for the most part is straightforward – the Apollos and Artemis only have the hatches to glue on, some of which I left open for crew figures which were superglued straight in. One of the tanks got a radar antenna on the rear of the turret – there’s a circular detail piece behind the left hatch, which I drilled out with a 2mm bit and fitted the radar in there. Both tanks had external fuel drums glued to the hull rear (a bit fiddly, use gel super glue for this) and jerricans plus the odd storage box were glued onto the hulls and turrets.<\/p>\n