Reinforcements for the BEF

AS part of my final push towards NYE, Here's some of my new 3D printed resin vehicle for the BEF, plus a little bit of old rework.

Some Matilda Mk I. It's quite iconic, and quite expensive to buy, and my single milicast models feels quite fragile. By comparison these are quite robust having been printed in one piece plus the turret

A13 Cruiser tanks, quite good for the period but rushed into combat with inevitable results

A pair of specials a Mk VI light tank with an AA turret and a Guy armoured car the predecessor to the Humber, plus a First to Fight 37mm Bofors AT gun.

Finally some rework, these were originally painted for my German army back in the mists of time when very few trucks were available. The body is Airfix, but the cargo deck and tilt on three came from some soft plastic toys, that for some reason had this part moulded in polystyrene (I never managed to find any more of them)

A quick diversion to the Middle East

A pair of Austin armoured cars for Dunsterforce.

Dunsterforce operated in Northern Iran and Southern Caucasus in the period after the Russian Revolution

Napoleonic cavalry for Christmas

Jsu completed these few units over the festivities, They are the latest Strelets Austrian Uhlans and Russian Hussars

The bulk of the Hussars made a unit of Akhtyrka in memory of my long departed Hinton Hunt figures that were painted as the same regiment. Behind them is the Soum Hussars of which the four figurs on the left are new and the others were an incomplete unit I painted a while ago.

The Austrian Uhlans are from the 1st Merveldt regiment and fill a missing gap in my coverage of the Austrian army

Second Japanese Platoon completed

The figures for the second platoon were mainly those from the Strelets IJA in defence.

Asthere was one figure with a flag I had to try and paint a rising sun on it.

Catching up with the backlog

Vehicle crews for my 3D printed vehicles, most are Plastic Soldier. There are also a couple of Kettenkraftrads that had integral crews.

An early Christmas

With just days to spare I managed to acquire the much desired new releases from Strelets

Thanks to Models2U for their great service at this time of year

A new period - WW2 Pacific

Having previously sold off all my old unpainted Japanese as a project too far, I'm now back painting Japanese for Battlegroup Pacific. Dewfinately supported by the latest releases from Strelets. To start, my first platoon mainlt created using Strelets Japanese in Tropical dress so plenty of shorts.

Close up of the rifle squads

The light mortar squad

The 2 man HQ with extras such as an AT rifle, lunge mine and rifle grenade

Recon 2021

On Saturday I had my first and last show for the year Recon at Pudsey, Leeds (not counting the Warboots at Penkridge), So it was a pleasure to meet up with friends and other wargamers again. Unfortunately a number of traders and games failed to make it because of Covid and despite the lower numbers the cafe ran out of tea and coffee.
As usual I was with the Lance & Longbow Society and the game was a what-if from the Italian Wars. We played the game twice before the visitors dried up.

I was intriguiged by the 6mm Sudan game

Nearby was a lovely dark age bash "Ragnarok"

I only bought a couple of books and some brushes, but I did manage to sell off some of the surplus from the stash. I'm keeping my fingers firmly crossed for York next year.

Wargame Amateur also has some pictures on his blog (link)

On the workbench - December 2021

It's certaainly been a roller coaster year and my painting and modelling has seen the same. The big change was the unplanned purchase of a 3D resin printer, that threw my plans into disarray. For December I will try and get a bit back on track and give myself a clear start for the new year. So I will work on.

• Crews for my 3D printed vehicles.
• More WW2 Japanese. 
• Napoleonc Austrian Uhlans 
• Napoleonic Russian Hussars 
• BEF tanks that I printed earlier in the year 
• and attempt to finish off as many of the odd bits that are lying around.

WSS Artillery - British and French

Just scraped in before the end of the month, my artillery for the War of Spanish Succession, The figures are a mix of the new Strelets sets plus some Zvezda Great Northern War figures. The guns are the same, I didn't use the smaller gun included in the Strelets set. Limbers are Revell Thirty Years War

French

British

I did notice that I forgot to add the map to the top of the barrel on the command Vignette.

Some useful Soviet bits & pieces

All Resin printed except the figures, from left to right a B4 howitzer limber (for whenever I need to move my 203mm gun), a mine roller for a T34 and a Field Kitchen

The Mine Roller is simply positioned in front of a T34 to make a PT-34. It works so easily that I'll have to print another one!

Every army marches on its stomach so this bit of rear area clutter just needed to be added.