British D Day support - Croc, Crab, AVRE and dozer

Part of getting together stuff for a D Day scenario, some British Funnies:

• Armoured dozer (Pendraken);
• Sherman dozer (Pithead);
• Sherman Crab (Pithead);
• Churchill Crocodile (Arrowhead formerly Wargames South);
• Churchill AVRE (Arrowhead).

I have always loved the Churchill, right back to Airfix kits as a kid so I particularly enjoyed doing the Crocodiles and AVREs (the Airfix kit was a pig to make with all those wheel bits! but the Arrowhead one is much easier to put together as it is just 5 bits including the turret)

the dozers:

the mine clearing flail, Sherman Crabs:

the flamethrower, Churchill Crocodile (not based yet as I need a larger base then those I have already. While I could cut out of plasticard I find ply is a better surface for gluing on sand so getting some cut to size from Fenris Games. I get their loyalty cards which is a more cost effective way of buying large amounts of bases over the course of a year):

the Churchill AVRE with petard:

I will do a fuller post on fortifications later on when I have completed some other bits. But included in the photos are:

a bunker for an anti tank gun, actually a 15mm one from Games of War (top comes off):

barbed wire. Comes in a roll and I got from Antenocitis Workshop. Wound round a pencil then glued to some brass rod posts on a prepared base:

a turret bunker. Home made and I have used a KV 1 turret for this (not likely to be in Normandy but I am getting hold of other turrets for these types of bunkers, such as old French tanks):