Churchills for Tunisia

Churchills for Tunisia

Two Britannia models with some added stowage

Platoon commander 

Stowage 

A mix of Value Gear & S&S

2nd vehicle

Stowage 

Britannia & S&S

Both together

More 20mm trucks

A couple more 20mm trucks

Classic Airfix Opel Blitz

 Straight out of the box

Between the wars GS truck

This started out as a Hasawaga Toyota aircraft starter truck  

A bit of fiddling allowed me to fit a Shellhole Scenics truck bed onto the chassis creating a passable between the wars GS truck

20mm British trucks

Transport for my deserty British 

Classic Airfix RAF Recovery set bought off that lovely John Dowman via Ebay   

K3 "Katie" Ambulance

Now I didn`t need a fire truck, so I`ve converted the Austin to a K3 GS model using the GS body off Shellhole Scenics out of the spares box; sabot load of course

28mm La Legion

28mm La Legion

Another batch of those 28mm sculpts I bought a few yrs back plus some bits which came with them in the box  

French `75 with crew

Crew

Hotchkiss team

Troopers & officers

Mounted trooper

Schneider Ca1

All together

Tufts & grass, etc

Tufts & grass, etc

I`m not very good at terrain and usually can`t be arsed to mess around basing figures beyond a basic flock style

But I do sometimes experiment and find 28mm stuff needs more effort than 20mm. Anyway, I ran out of tufts and our local model shop was closed for a holiday and I don`t do GW (fuck em)  

So I went to Ebay and discovered this company - https://www.warpainter.net/

Bought this set of arid tufts for £4.90 inc postage - pretty good IMHO  

Juramentados

Juramentados 

(Men sworn to die in battle)

Just about the only wargames set-up I have NOT 20mm is a 28mm skirmish one for my pet project - Rif War 1919-26, some yrs back I bought a large batch of figures (thanks to Bannockburn Boy over on the SOTCW forum) which a sculpter from Scotland produced just for himself and have never been released to the public.

I`ve converted these, pruning away guns, swapping arms or hands (and a head) and added various scimitars (thanks Ian)  

Crusaders for Tunisia

Crusaders for Tunisia

The first time I`ve sat down to paint since late June.

I`ve just lost my drive, I have no plans, in fact I`ve just been plodding for most of the last 18 months, anyway, over on The Wargamer`s Forum, they do regular "builds", the lastest on is "Blades" and whilst i don`t often do guys with swords, etc I thought of an entry slightly outside the box

Crusader IIIs of 17th/21st Lancers "Blade Force" Tunisia, December 1942

Britannia models