The Long March of the tin men continues, and I still have quite a few chappies in police blue, police green, khaki, green and khaki, and just in plain mufti, to shift. However, I thought I'd vary the task by extracting some armour from the incredible cabinet of Herr Doktor Front, which is beginning to take on aspects of the Tardis. A variety of scales and makes, but all designed for the table top, not the competition table:
A conversion, foreground, involving the ancient Airfix Stug III, backed by, at left, a refurb on an Airfix Grant I made in the early 1970s, an Armourfast Pz III, and a tiny (Peter Pig?) CV35.
Armourfast based NZ ambulance conversion on the left, the refurb Grants, resin French armour from 1940 (I can't remember the make), and behind the Grants, an Esci Jagdtiger that I built long ago in 1985 - massive, and useless on the table top.
Different scales above, with a large Italian Social Republic Dingo take-off, captured M.13/40 (the Aussie's first armour), and a nice resin Polish tankette.
Lancias for 28mm, with the odd addition in the shape of upper engine armour and anti-grenade net (made out of a tea strainer).
Finally, kit that, had things gone badly for old Blighty, might have clashed.
Do you have any 1940 French infantry to go with those tanks?
ReplyDeleteSadly, no. When I bought those three tanks, the only 20mm French that I knew of was the odd Revell set which depicted some strange combination of late war uniform mix - some US, some French kit.
DeleteWhat scale are those Home guard a.c.`s in the last pic?
ReplyDeleteA 25/28mm mix, but more towards 25 mm than 28. The Pz II with them is an Anglian Miniatures 28mm from what was their Spanish Civil War range.
DeleteI've been keenly amassing a Sealion force of mixed British troops (regulars, LDV, shore and ground crews) and German paratroopers in 1/32. I've struggled, given the little attention that 1/32 gets, for civilian troops and armour, but I'm now content with some Airfix 'Rommel's halftrack' kits with added gunners. Your armoured cars, though, gave me a little inspiration, as I imagine it would be child's play to convert one of these: http://www.airfix.com/military-vehicles/1-32-military-vehicles/monty-s-humber-snipe-staff-car-1-32.html with a Vickers gun and armour plate. Looks like my British forces could get some armoured reinforcements!
ReplyDeleteYes, should be quite straighforward. What you need for a good little reference booklet that covers the Beaverette but a lot of other easy to reproduce extempore kit, is Martin Mace, Vehicles of the Home Guard, (Pulborough, 2001).
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