Wrecked artillery limber

Wrecked Artillery Limber

I long term modelling project finally complete, usable for a lot of the periods we game.

IT Miniatures limber (which was an awful model), various plastic dead horses (thanks to Will Macnally 😂 ) plus bits`n bobs

The Bashir of Tangier`s artillery

I have a plan to run a game based on the Marine landing at Tangier 1904 - dipicted in the film Wind and the Lion  😃 

I have decided that to make the game interesting the landing itself should be opposed and wanted some ordinance and crews to do so -

All crew are conversted plastics see end photo

Gatling Gun & crew

Artillery crew

SHQ `75 for scale

The whole battery

Juramentado (man aworn to die in battle)

My conversions L-R 

HAT WW1 French artilleryman, HAT German WW2 AT gunner, HAT British Zulu War Gatling crew, BUM Spanish Foreign Legionnaire all with heads from Earl War Miniatures

Yet more Yanks

More Yanks

About another weeks work.

Drivers and gun crew 

Mostly SHQ for vehicles already in Spain

Three Jeeps
We noticed during our last couple of NWE games most of my vehicles have crews, this looked a little odd when a static in HQs, etc, so I decided to paint a couple of Jeeps up sans crew

L-R old Skytrex, Fujimi, Matchbox

Halftrack

Yet another Matchbox M16 chassis (the last one  :D ) Totally rebuilt and repaired, new wheels, new armoured screen plus loads of random stowage; made to look like a troop transport 

Plastic driver, Raventhorpe .50cal gunner, seated figures by Britannia 

M3 lt tank

Built from the left-over parts of the PSC Honey spur
I fudged some of missing bits with plasticard and plasterscene, the 37mm barrel came off a Pak36

US medical teams

Blanket/stretcher team by Andy Grubb

Medic and casualty by Andy Grubb

Medics with casualty by Raventhorpe

Various infantry the ones in greatcoat are all Britannia, the rest Friend or Foe

German guns

German Guns

Another weeks work

Fh18 battery

Guns are Britannia, with a scratch mostly plastic crew - Revell & Esci plus a couple of SHQ metals, I also created two ammo stacks out of various stowage sets

Battery HQ

All Esci plastics

SIG 150mm Infantry gun 

All Britannia with another ammo stack

Spotter team

Rather splendid figures by Elhiem

terrain scatter/cover

Terrain scatter

Clearing the decks with various little bits to break up open spaces on the table.

Figures and truck just for scale

Fish and meat stalls for a market place 

A bit big in 20mm, but i added the platforms to make them more like auction platforms  :D 

These came from Spanish cheap shops 60cents each

Piles of wooden barrels 

Resin truck loads by Sgt`s Mess

Supply cashes 

Resin "objective markers" from Early War Miniatures

Well 

another Spanish cheap shop find for 50cents

More British desert vehicles

A few additions for my desert British

A couple of Morris radio vans by Britannia

The one without tilt has a Raventhorpe driver

A Plastic Soldier Company "Honey"

A bit of added stowage and odd decals

 all together

US naval crew

US naval crew

I have the idea of re-running the Saafi game (Operation Torch) that we did a few years back on our much larger table in Spain. As part of the planning I decided to do a proper US crew for my Britannia trawler.

All Raventhorpe unless marked

Deck gun & crew

The gun is my own creation using the Raventhorpe 105mm short howitzer as the base.

 Britannia officer, Raventhorpe .30cal, old Skytrex officer

 Water-cooled .50cal

20mm Oerlikon & crew 

After trying these our on the ship, i decided the .30cal gunner wasn`t suitable, but would mount nicely in my Japanese landing barges (I know don`t ask). so when i got home i painted up the last two crew/guns, another .30cal plus another Oerlikon