Salvaged Shermans

Salvaged Shermans

Originally posted 12th April 2012

Bought these on Ebay (£7.00).

Two Armourfast and one Britannia, I`ve tidied them up, added additional stowage, swopped the head on one commander (painted shoulder flashes on both), then added 2Dble decals.

Oil/Petrol depot

Oil/Petrol depot 

Originally posted 27th April 2012

This hds been a long term building plan of mine which never got off the ground until a "group build" over on much missed The Guild forum.

40 x 23cm base

The fuel truck (di-cast), figures (Battlefield) and German fuel trailer (Milicast) are just for effect and not part of the build.

Walls and front gates from S&S.
The cobble effect floor is Vac-u-cast (I think)
The garage building is Byzantium
The various mechanicals - trollies, crane and generator are Sgt`s Mess
The pump unit is scartch built, the generator shed an old Thomas Tank engine carriage (Tomy), the oil tank is from another Thomas wagon (ERTL this time).
The large fuel tank was a Q-tip box, the supports were struts off an umberella, the ladder off a toy fire engine 
The small tank is from Mega Blocks, all pipe=work is 5amp cable

Vietnam Yanks

Vietnam Yanks

Originally done and posted on the SOTCW forum in May 2012

As most of you know I don`t do moderns (post 1960 that is), but of course I will happily play anything and this years Gauntlet game is set in Vietnam. Thanks to bannockburn bhoy here, I now have a selection of `Nam era US figures, so decided to paint up a platoon strength unit - 3 x 10 men squads + HQ

All together I painted up 35 figs - 3 x 10 figure platoons + a 5-man HQ (officer, RTO, Sergeant, medic & sniper), I also have a guy carrying a wounded comrade.

Here`s a selection of pictures, as far as I can tell they are a mixture of Liberation Minis and Platoon 20 and Britannia. 

I`ve tried a different technique painting in layers with these there are actually 7 different "greens" in use plus GW green wash too

28mm Arabs/Tuareg

28mm Arabs/Tuareg

Whilst browsing the old version of the SOTCW forum late last night I discovered several posts and many photos which I had done before I started this blog (June 2012).

So I`ve decided to repost them here anyway, these were originally posted 1st June 2012.

I only really do 20mm, but I do have a smallish 28mm Rif War set-up, these figures are from Blaze Away Figures.

Pack mules, etc

Pack mules, etc

A conversation over on The Wargamer`s Forum led me to think about pack mules in my various armies.

WW2 Germans

As far as I can tell L to R - Irregular, Airfix, Airfix, GW (a very old wagon horse) 

 Airfix, another GW wagon horse, Britannia

 French mountain battery

All B&B Miniatures

 Spanish/French colonials

The wagon is Imex, the mules are Combat Miniatures (I built the loads and packs)

 French/Spanish medical unit

Again the wagon in Imex, the mules are Combat Miniatures - I built the cradles

 Spanish Foreign Legion

 

 Spanish colonials

B&B Miniatures Hotchiss mules

 Two more photos of the German supply train

1st Battalion

 2nd Battalion

 Combat Miniatures

 Matchbox

 US 2.75 inch gun team

 EWM Indian WW1 cavalry LMG mule

 Combat Miniatures 80mm mortar mules

 Camel packed mountain gun

 Mexican MG team moving

 lone mule

 Retrokit (front), Matchbox (rear)

Lighthouse and dock

Lighthouse and dock

The lighthouse and dock sections are by Anyscale Models

I built the little island and bridge out of bits from my terrain box

24th Colonial Infantry Regiment, Syria `41

24th Colonial Infantry Regiment, Syria `41

Well a bit of it anyway :)

2 x 12 figure, Groupe de combate plus a small 4-man HQ, so a weak infantry company under our rules.

All these are those Elhiem Figures Senegalese, some with head-swaps using various Adrian heads out of the bits box, the telephone op is from Raventhorpe 

1st platoon

2nd platoon

HQ