Long Range Desert Group : Finishing, Painting, Weathering & Stowage
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This longer-form video takes you through the base painting, weathering, and creating a supplies load in the rear cargo area of Thunder Models F30 LRDG truck. Airbrush, Oil Paints, Markers, Acrylics, Pigments, and Putty are all included in this showcase finishing video
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Great work. Love it. Thx for showing
Thanks for watching!
Great. Build really like the stomach in the back. Can't wait to see your next video I always enjoy watching your videos.Keep up the good work
Thank you very much!
Nice to see your project on the channel. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks, will do!
Welcome back Rick! Haven’t seen you post in a long while. Hope summer was good! Lovely work as always!
Good summer and nice to be back...thanks.
There weren't any SAS in the LRDG, but they did sometimes go on joint operations. The SAS tended to use jeeps. Lovely paint job on these.
thanks
Nice job Rick!
Thanks, Glenn.
Glad to have you back , Great build and you make it look so easy..
Thanks. I really is “so easy”.
Awesome Build Rick!!
Thanks!
LRDG was the invention of Sir Ralph Bagnold OBE
in 1939.
A British explorer, Geologist and one of the first European men in the 1930's to accurately map the western desert before WW2 along with Lawrence of Arabia.
Bagnold joined the British army before the war started.
Bagnold was an adventurer who wrote several great books and a master desert survivalist and experienced star chart navigator.
His charts on North Africa were used by the British empire and military for years even after WW2.
Sterling formed the SAS in 1941.
Originally called
L detachment with 66 original surviving members after their first parachute jump in the desert failed due to a severe storm killing 50% of the men.
Sterling himself broke his back in the jump but survived.
The LRDG and SAS were two completely different regiments of the British army.
The SAS wasn't an official regiment until it left the western desert in 1943 to enter Sicily and later work with the French Marquee resistance before Dday.
Sterling had been captured by Axis troops in Tripoli 43 and sat the rest of the war out in Colditz prison.
Until that time L detachment was considered a guerrilla force by the British high command,
along with another less famous Popski's private army, a Polish volunteer group who also used Jeeps to conduct raiding missions in the western desert mostly attacking supply vehicle routes not airfields. I can highly recommend the book on that raiding party. Another Guerrilla force.
Unlike the Long range desert group which was an official British army transport company that were tasked with recon missions after Bagnold suggested the idea to high command.
Only lightly armed for defence against enemy fighter planes,
they were never tasked with offensive missions.
They gathered intelligence, collected downed RAF airmen and delivered supplies between remote RAF airfields and restocked fuel dumps at beduin oasis camps.
Bagnold's excellent navigation and survival skills meant the force could stay deep in the western desert for weeks at a time without resupply. He had mapped all the Beduin oasis watering holes before the war.
They would covertly watch the Axis powers supply routes and report the findings to the RAF fighter planes.
They were NOT
an attack force.
SAS was a raiding party tasked with destroying Axis power airfields and aircraft on the ground.
Originally the SAS used the LRDG for transportation in their first two missions prior to later Procuring US lend lease Jeeps.
Infact Sterling stole his first jeeps from British army headquarters in Egypt along with a piano and tents from an Australian military camp further annoying British high command.
The initial idea was to be parachuted into a mission by the RAF then extricated by the LRDG but after the fateful failed jump that killed half the SAS force,
Sterling realised Fast attack Jeeps would be a better idea, it would allow the SAS to operate independently without hampering the LRDG.
Several of the 'original 66' SAS members were ex LRDG troops recruited by Sterling for their excellent navigation skills in the desert.
My Grandfather was RAF ground crew based in Alexandria Egypt throughout WW2.
He met Bagnold several times during resupply stop overs at RAF airstrips.
I have his photo album with photos of these trucks resupplying.
One Scottish LRDG trooper famously walked out the desert 200 miles after his convoy was shot up by an Italian fighter plane and almost all crew killed.
It remained the record for the longest desert bug out on foot for decades after, only matched by an SAS trooper during the failed Bravo 2 zero mission in 1991.
SAS trooper Chris Ryan would later comment he knew if a Scot did it, a Geordie could do it too.
This truck was the first LRDG truck type used later replaced in early 1942 by the Canadian issue Chevy 30CWT (the Tamiya kit) because the Ford V8 truck used too much fuel in the desert and being 4X4 meant slightly heavier more prone to getting sand trapped.
These trucks were standard issue to the RAF ground crews also.
Ironically both the LRDG and the SAS were disbanded immediately after WW2.
British high command stating their was no place for Guerrilla warfare tactics in the British army..
Churchill's belief was a war against Hitler meant all tactics should be welcomed.
The SAS was later reinstated to fight in Malaya in 1950 and the LRDG only replaced by the modern pathfinder recon unit, today a British special forces unit conducting the same recon only missions via Jackal vehicles during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts against insurgents. Their greatest skill being camouflage concealment in the desert, a tactic learned from the original LRDG crews.
The British pathfinder unit is still a separate SF unit to the modern SAS today.
Thanks for the full response.
Very nice job, Master, Thanks for this video 👍🥇
My pleasure
Exceptional weathering skills!!
Many thanks!
Really cool. 👍
Thanks! 👍
Great how-to video, Rick. I really enjoyed this along with the subject, the LRDG. Always look forward to your video tutorials. Thanks, Rick 👍😎
Glad you enjoyed it
Looks great Rick! Looking forward to more.
Thanks.
Wow... super crazy. I just suggested you to someone last night and checked your yourube to see if anything was new and set alarms to all. Perfect timing 👌
Amazing! ESP!!! Cheers.
Very well done 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
This looks awesome. Excellent subject💥 👍💥
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice details, I like it very much. The video is also very good quality 👌 Greetings Steve
Many thanks!
Rick - as always, your work looks great. But, add some stenciling to those boxes! Ralph
Next time!??!
Fantastic Rick!😀👍
Many thanks!
Cool beans there mate! 🤩
Thanks a bunch.
Oohhh Lordie, Ricks back❤🎉
Is that a good thing?
@@RickLawlerPropaganda for sure!
Looks sharp
Thanks, Dan.
Hi rick, your LRDG truck looks amazing. Did you have any construction problems at all.. Cheers, Gary, uk 🇬🇧
Nothing too tricky or issues with the build, actually work once you get past the opening steps with the steering, suspension and chassis. Thanks for watching.
@RickLawlerPropaganda thanks rick I'll go and buy the kit now as it does look like a very nice kit.cheers, Gary 🇬🇧
Excellent rendition…don’t overlook that ejector pin mark on the interior passenger wheel well…a map case, rucksack, or box can hide that demon… how are those pens…?? I saw the demo at the AMPS nationals but was a skeptic…
Ok...I'll take a look. thanks
Is it any better a build than the Tamiya version?
I have not built the Tamiya so I can't compare.
What colour paint are you using for the chips and weathering. Thanx from y
Australia
generally the oil chips are made using 502 Shadow Brown, sometimes with a bit of Dark Rust added just to discolor slighyly.
@@RickLawlerPropaganda thanx mate
Did you get the AK stuff for free? If so you have to mark it as a placement. I mean its so on the nose nowadays with marketing... I get ads for the markers and the real colors everywhere I go. Its just a new product. Have to say that I find it repulsing. :D sry for my rant but the markers... just use a brush, no need to get this stuff. Markers tend to dry out and you cant see how much is left inside.. And real colors are just oil colors in a new package. Nice build and great finish Rick! Grüße from Germany
Well although I would never use them, I definitely see the marketing aspect and uses for markers. I think they are very appealing for beginners, for one thing, because a lot of people are just intimidated by the entry requirements to model building. SPECIALLY the gunpla and mecha community, I could see these being a big hit amongst the snap build model builders if I had to guess. AK must of had some idea of the demand before they dumped millions of dollars into producing these goofy things 🤷♂️
I certainly enjoy them as an option.
I think the pens are quite good for small parts, but I personally find them useless for larger surfaces. You can see it quite well in my video. Greetings Steve
so many blankets hanging everywhere... do you have any photo evidence that this is prototypical....
Google is your friend…a lot of references showing these vehicles loaded down and lived in.
Hi buddy its definitely right for all the blankets. I speak from experience its bloody freezing in the desert once the sun goes down as I was out there for 5 months so we got whatever we could gets our hands on blankets thick jackets and so on so rick as got it right mate. cheers, Gary UK 🇬🇧
The SAS were NOT the Long Range Desert Group. It's two totally different organisations that happened to be born in the desert.
And the LRDG had the chevrolet trucks
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These were the first trucks the LRDG used before later procuring the Chevy 30 CWT.
These Ford V8 trucks were 4x4 and great in the desert sand
but unfortunately used too much fuel for the LRDG to continue using.
The downside to the Chevy 30CWT was they are only rear wheel drive.
@@ljt3084 good! thanks for sharing informations👍👍👍👍👍