US Support
Some of you may remember way back in April, I ran a couple of games based around the fighting at Prummern in November 1944.
https://baberonwargames.blogspot.com/2025/04/prummern-november-1944.html
I quickly discovered I was short of support weapons to field more than one US infantry battalion on a tabletop. So I dug through my pile of plastics where I knew there would be some suitable figures, then I cleaned them up and repainted.
Cheap, cheerful and done.
60mm mortar team
For as company support weapons platoon, 2 Esci figures with a old Hasawaga mortar
M1919 machine gun team
Again for a company support weapons platoon again Esci figures
2 off M1917 medium machine guns
Esci guns, Airfix No2s
Mine detector Esci
In error (I blame the internet) I bought Strelets set M156 - 8th Army Australian Heavy Support Squad, when I actually wanted their Indian support weapons - d`oh! 😕
Frankly the figures are awful, really bad flash, rubbish in fact, I I did persevere and try and clean up and paint one AA Bren team for my Aussie HQ
It’s always good to have more support. I’m sure your plastic warriors will appreciate it. FWIW I reckon we all struggle trying to match up the ammo belt with the machine gun itself.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Geoff
Ha, ha, ha - my modeling has never been the best, these are really just re-paints, not really new as such. They may have been originally assembled 20+ yrs ago.
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