Thursday, August 30, 2012

French half-track: Schneider P16

Another addition from http://earlywarminiatures.com/



Base colours are Vallejo French tank-crew and highlights, followed by a wash of Citadel Thruka Green


They served mostly with cavalry units, ideally I'd like two more of these to make a full armoured recon company


Decals from the spares that Paul gave me for my Char B1s


Nice simple kit of good detail and general appearance 

Sunday, August 26, 2012

French 25mm

Actually the Hotchkiss M34 anti-tank gun


This version was also used by the BEF during the Battle of France


Painted with Vallejo French tank-crew colours and a wash of Citadel Thruka Green


This is a really good model, metal, x7 parts, well made and accurate


This comes from Early War Miniatures, who have an excellent range of reasonably priced stuff to suit this period, check out their website here: http://earlywarminiatures.com/

Friday, August 24, 2012

Dave's 251s

A few pictures from Dave's 251 collection



He's got quite a few half tracks, these are from his late war panzergrenadier unit


Not too sure about who manufactured these, but they're all tidy kits with nice details



You need about ten of these to mount a full battalion in CD terms

Friday, August 17, 2012

New Pz I

Old but new. Paul gave me this a couple of weeks ago, it was in a desert scheme but I soon fixed that


An Esci model I think?


Still al little ink to apply around the wheels and tracks but it's pretty much finished


Haven't made much progress with either of my early war French or German projects, and am in Auckland all next week so no time for fun at present :(

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Gerard's Armour

Found a few pictures of Gerard's collection that I forgot I had... 



Nicely detailed and painted Panthers



Command 251/1



Lastly, a bit of work in progress

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

76.2

Another gun by Unimodel



Two is enough for an understrength battery and they can also be attached to other units individually, quite useful



With the earlier attempt for comparison

Friday, August 3, 2012

Latest latest Project

Couldn't help myself. These French arrived a couple of days ago and I've started to build a dismounted Dragoon regiment, but as always transport for them all will be problematic


Figures are Caesar and Pegasus, both superb examples of modern figure manufacture


AALMG platoon


Eventually I intend to get some anti-tank guns as well 

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Dave's Commonwealth

A few pictures of Dave's Commonwealth unit, which I think he has finally finished. The figures are HaT Canadians 



Rifle Platoons




Rifle grenadier platoons, x1 per battalion from 1916 in CD terms



Company command platoons



Dave has spent some time adding extra details to his trench tiles



Don't know what his next project is yet, more pictures when he sends them

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Latest Project

On the table are a number of German figures, primarily from my early war collection. In CD terms there is at least a division here, nine battalions


Trouble is of the six already complete only three are uniformed and equipped in early war style


Here are some new MMG platoons, figures are Matchbox and Airfix, both classic sets in my opinion


Here are three of the completed units that are a mess. When I started in this hobby I never really paid attention to uniform style, etc, so I've decided to redo the lot


Case in point, Revell 44-45 Panzergrenadiers in the same unit as the old Matchbox and Esci. The new unit will be at least two regiments of 1939-40 German Infantry.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

1940 Moroccan Infantry

One of the more ambitious projects I've tried for a while. Decent pictures were had to find, so in the end I just went with a mixture of French figures with a few head swaps



The donor figures, notice the absence of cigarettes in the background :)



Esci, Revell, and Pegasus figures


First company


Airfix, Revell, Esci, Caesar figures


Second company


HQ, eventually I'll add another couple of companies for a full battalion. As far as tabletop representations go they're okay, but as usual better research and more donor figures would have produced better results.
The uniform colours are Vallejo French tank crew. All still have some minor touching up to do. 
Thanks to Tim for the Esci French :)