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Anyone following the saga of the Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a> Pegasus Bridge<\/a> game will be aware that one of the items needed is a German Vorpostenboot <\/em><\/a>(literally ‘outpost boat’). No model of this is available in 1\/300th scale, I once again went down the 3D printing route and created a computer model which we shipped off to Shapeways. The finished model has come back and once again we’re more than pleased with what we received.<\/p>\n

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Unpainted Vorpostenboot<\/p><\/div>\n

The model was equipped with a selection of AA weapons from Heroics and Ros<\/a> (thanks to Andy at H&R for sorting out something for the main gun !) and hurriedly painted for a run through of the game last weekend.<\/p>\n

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Vorpostenboot V 212 Fritz Busse on the Caen Canal<\/p><\/div>\n

The model still needs finishing with detail painting and ink washes. If there is time I’d also like to give it a crew, but I suspect that pressures of finishing the rest of the models will count against me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone following the saga of the Maidstone Wargames Society Pegasus Bridge game will be aware that one of the items needed is a German Vorpostenboot (literally ‘outpost boat’). 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