M24 Chaffee

This little beauty was in the stash that Paul sent me. A lot of nations used this AFV, and nearly 5000 were built

I unbuttoned it, added a crew figure and a MG 

A lick of paint and a couple of decals and it's tabletop ready

I think this model is by Matchbox Hasegawa (thanks Paul)

I'll use this more with my Korean War collection, a very welcome inclusion thanks mate :)

Japanese Parachute Infantry

By Strelets

Command flame thrower engineer platoon

One of the infantry platoons

LMG figures for the weapons platoons

1st Battalion

2nd 

3rd

Flame thrower engineer battalion

Regimental HQ

This is a full regiment based for CD3 - equivalent to a reinforced infantry battalion for most other formations. 

WW1 vehicle weathering

Some pictures Dave sent me of the detail he is adding to his Great War vehicle collection

I think these FT17s' are by HaT

Whippets by Emhar

These are also by Emhar, very nice kits

Great stuff Dave!

New Guns

These French 25mm guns arrived with my package from Paul. They are scratch builds by the talented Gerard Davey 

Slight touch up to the paintwork 

I now have four of these guns, the other two are metals by Early War Miniatures, see the link here 

http://20thcenturywargames.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/more-french-additions.html and here http://20thcenturywargames.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/french-25mm.html

Progress - wooden buildings

My first dabble with wooden buildings

Added a floor to this one so as to make it more functional for CD3

This is another one of an Asian style

Basic construction, went together in about ten minutes. Once I've finished filling the major gaps and other holes in the framework it will be ready for a paint job.

Germans in Greatcoats

Actually finished these a while ago, dismounted motorcycle infantry. Two companies plus HQ & Recon sections. I'd like to finish the battalion at some stage, and now I have the motorcycle kits to do so... another day another project idea :) 

A mixture of mostly HaT and Italeri, mostly in greatcoats. These are the before and after touch-ups pics 

Still chugging away on my para project, update you soon :)

New Additions

The postman comes through as always...

My late war collection is quite small, but now improved slightly with these Tigers

Strangely, the normal plastic set I ordered and received http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1807 came in this box, which is for the multi-part figures

Progress on my early war German para continue, and these two sets will form a late war regiment, covering 1942-45. This will finish the division, except for the ancillary units 

Lastly, these came from my friend Col http://scratchbuiltarmour.blogspot.com.au/

We occasionally play D & D on a cardboard dungeon floor plan, using counters to represent the characters. Since these figures arrived plans are afoot to paint them up, and use them instead. Thank you Col.

German Para, progress

I have another two battalions on the work bench as well. This first regiment will be early war (39-41), almost entirely Airfix figures in composition, and hopefully have about every third or forth figure modified. These are all at the final touch up stage

Won't mark their base numbers until I've finished all three battalions

I tried a new approach with the way I painted these, heavy dry brushing over a black undercoat

As always, some turned out better than others. I'm planning to start using a soldering iron instead of glue on future projects like this

Slings and extra ammo pouches on most

Each company needs mmg figures to be completed and there are not many available in plastic, especially since you only get a couple in a box. Problematic and still working on this one - maybe some drastic conversion on the right donor figure of a similar size to the Airfix ones? 

The joy of receiving

A present from Paul http://plasticwarriors.blogspot.com.au/?view=classic

First up, a Nitto 88mm, excellent, and a Hasegawa Kubelwagen and bike combo for my (now) planned motorcycle infantry battalion 

Joy! Boneyard tanks. The S35 is the excellent Heller kit, the M24 is for my Korean War collection, the Sherman is a bonus as I'm trying to eventually build a battalion of these

Couldn't have come at a better time for my stalled Japanese division project, these will help provide command and weapon stands, amongst other things

These are 28mm New Zealanders and will probably be used with our zombie board game as the government forces counter, though we're still using the basic rules for this game

A couple of T34s from the talents of Gerard Davey. I am chuffed to get these because I only have a few of these models, they'll get a repaint to fit with my others

Another of Gerard's work and the only one in my collection, the mighty SU152.

I got a couple of other nice things too but I'll show you those later.

Cheers Paul.