Well, I'm not usually lost for words, Louis, but I simply can't find the superlatives for this, your latest masterpiece.
Worse still, I'd even forgotten to click on the posted images to enlarge them. As presented, they're outstanding. When enlarged, they have an almost other-worldly beauty.
From the fact-finding on the shingle of Dieppe, with Pater, to the almost home-made, or invented, everything else in the evolution of this beautiful model- you have created a path that many would love to follow, I'm sure. Few could, however.
I took my children to Ypres, Beaumont Hamel (The Somme), Arras (where my uncle died), Vimy, Passchendaele, Tyne Cot, Verdun, Arnhem, Kleve, The Reichswald, The Ardennes, and many more locations from WW1 and WW2- just so that they could bear witness to how
crazy, and destructive, humans really can be. However, my one regret is that I never had the opportunity to check out those places, and their ghosts with my late father. He died back in 1991.
But yes, I agree, we should all go to these places, especially with someone close to us. Whether we like it or not, wars certainly advance technology and invention in a way that the peacetime world never can. I guess we see the same ingenuity with the global Covid crisis, with the unprecedented creation of vaccines to fight the war on viruses.
As for the Churchill. Well, it once struck me as being a relic of WW1 design, and fairly ugly. But now, thanks to your detailed examination, and recreation of it, in 1/16 scale- I'm fairly smitten by it.
Those tracks are show-stoppingly attractive too, and look way better fully exposed.
I also note that whilst most of the units involved were Canadian, their regimental names harked back to the Highlands of Scotland.