Earl Coversion Attempts

Found these in another folder whilst having a clean out of old files the other day. These stands are Russian engineers.

I attempted these a long time ago and have made some improvement since. When I put these together I didn't really pay too much attention to uniforms or equipment, just sort of stuck things together really.

Another one of those things where the practical doesn't meet the conception, still you have give these things a bash, and this is yet another unit due for the great holiday revamp of 09/10. I have 44 days of annual leave coming up, and intelligence reports that Santa is collecting things from my wish list as we speak.

Plastic Buildings

Just another couple of pictures of some buildings. These mostly have a certain European flavour to them but have been used in others theatres by necessity.

All are railway models of one sort or another. Multi-level buildings have had floors added, which makes for better gaming.

All of my buildings have removable roofs. They could probably be made to look a lot better than they do, but it's another one of those things I have on a long list of 'things I'd like to do one day' projects.

Bit more versatile this one, it most often finds itself on the Eastern Front for both wars. We did a couple of actions from the Brusilov Offensive last year in which it featured in both battles, once for the Russians, and once for the Austrians, nice to actually get to use cavalry for a change.

Cardboard Buildings

A few pictures of some of my card buildings. Most of them are very old, although they have stood the test of time rather well, and I wouldn't be surprised if many a gamer had a few of these in their collections.

This is probably the worst of them condition wise. Like all the others it has had its roof made detachable for the placement of infantry units inside.

This is a little big for most purposes but fits in okay if the built-up area is big enough.

This is usually a railway building but has also worked well in other functions. I would recommend these buildings because you often find the style of them fits in well with other stuff, and they are not expensive. I saw a model railway show in Europe a few years ago and the layout buildings were all of this type, and the model maker had converted several of them to very good effect; which I might have a go at myself sometime.

An old truck

I found this truck cab whilst leaving cricket last week, and straight away thought I wonder what this will go with.

Added a couple of wheels, deck, etc. Just couldn't help myself really, will post another of the painted variety later.

Greyhound Armoured Car

This kit has an unusual amount of detailing by my standards, I got it in Warsaw whilst there on leave a few years ago. Can't remember the manufacturer but it's resin.

All the stowage, etc came with the kit, and the only thing it's missing is the .5. I only have the one of these as my US collection is not that big, and well, recon platoons are generally small by nature.

HaT Romanians

Here are some pictures of the most versatile HaT Romanians. With head-swaps these figures will stand in quite nicely for just about anything, and it is a big-box set which include light and medium machineguns, mortars and plenty of officer figures.

The MMG is a little unusual but an essential addition, nonetheless.

This pictures shows a couple of command platoons. These figures are part of my small Dutch collection and are used as Dutch Marines. Don't know if the uniform colours are accurate but don't really care either, I painted them like this because I wanted them to stand out a bit; which is totally un-marine-like, but that's okay because they're not RM. I'm considering another attempt at some KNIL using these figures but replacing their helmets with slouch hats, yet another project on the go.

The 5307th Composite Group

A couple of pictures of another unit slated for a revamp. Historically it was a mixed infantry brigade which combined troops from several different nations into one quite unusually equipped force.


This unit saw extensive action from around mid 1943 and was apparently fairly successful in behind the lines type action. It relied solely on pack animals for its transport, and its weapons were a right mixture of whatever was available.

As I am planning to do a bit more far-east stuff next year they should see plenty of service. Am also playing around with the idea of some more Indian troops and also some Dutch figures in tropical kit, will post any actual results further down the track.