Wagons roll...

In lieu of bashing plastic today, I thought I would get some of my toys out of their barracks and photograph them (badly). The nearly finished Afrika Pz III on my table inspired me to review some of my North African campaign kit. Over the last 40 years (!), inspired by the late, much lamented John Sanders, I've collected North Africa vehicles and toy soldiers. The upshot is that I have kit for all stages of the desert war (but with little for Tunisia), from many different sources (including long defunct manufacturers), finished to very different standards, in very different finishes.

First of all, some early British/Commonwealth:

Some DAK armour and support:

Italian transport:

Italian armour from early days until Tunisia in fact.

Italian lorry-borne artillery. This was something of an Italian specialism, and is the subject of the fascinating Italian Truck-Mounted Artillery in Action, by Ralph Riccio and Nicola Pignato (Squadron/Signal, Carrollton, 2010).

Italian recce forces, including two armoured cars from the elite Italian African Police:

Italian medium artillery - another elite arm, often fated to die at their posts:

But, I must kit bash...