Hungarian Rifle Coys

Haven't managed to sort out the heavy weapons for the Hungarians and Italians yet, so I decided to carry on with just the rifle companies. The figures are all Strelets


and another oddment a reworked matchbox Panther in ambush camouflage

Russian Command Wagon

Just in time I've completed my entry to the SOGGy "Paint your wagon" charity auction it's a Gypsy Caravan by Blotz. It took quite a bit of effort to complete and I'm not convinced that MDF is the right material for this scale vehicles.

The command team is a collection of various figures that I had to hand, amuse yourself by identifying the sources.

T8 Reconnaissance Vehicles

After completing the Plastic Soldier Company Stuarts I was sure that I'd be able to use some of the spare components, but I wanted something American. The T8 Reconnaissance vehicle was the obvious solution, but it was only used for trials. However I discovered that units were advised the could make the conversion using the M49 ring mount. and some saw service as a limited standard.

The underside was filled in with plastic card and at the rear I added a pair of access doors to break up the flat surface. the ring mounts came from the Airfix/Heller GMC, but to experiment I tried making the canvas cover on one, and the sandbags on the other from some old blu-tac. To ensure it was firmly fixed it was covered in some cheap superglue and it is pretty solid.

The crewmen obviously had to be the leftovers from the Plastic Soldier Company's Half track

Folgore rebased

Continuing to catch up on plan I got diverted into rebasing my Italian Paratroops. Typically I had been looking to see if I had any spare heavy weapons for my winter Italians and these were falling off their bases. I had experimented a while ago with using tile grout., which was now crumbling. I also took the opportunity to add a flame thrower and radio from the Waterloo Italian support set to complete the battalion for the latest Rapid Fire organisation. For these figures I used Blu-tact to convert the putties into baggy trousers, hardening it off with PVA.

DAK transport

Getting back into the swing of things now. Just finished off the Ready-to-Roll Horch and Stower cars that I bought at York

At the back is an extra Airfix Panzer IV that I had to build to make up the numbers for the new Rapid Fire Medenine scenario.

Just for JP I have left the bases on - seriously it wasn't worth the bother as they weren't too large or thick and desert terrain is fairly consistent

A slight change of pace!

Off to have a pacemaker fitted, so there might be a slight gap in posting. Hopefully not as it's only a day case involving local anaesthetic, and I don't think painting figures counts as strenuous activity, which I have to stop for a week afterwards.

At least I'll have plenty to read as both Wargames Illustrated and Miniature Wargames have just arrived, excellent timing!

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UPDATE

Now home again from hospital and ordered to take it easy for a few days, no driving for a week, still apart from discomfort everything went fine

Thanks to all you bloggers for your kind wishes.

Will

German Winter Infantry #2

Another Rapid Fire German winter battalion completed, this time they represent a better prepared unit, almost all with the reversible jacket. The figures are mostly the Caesar German winter infantry, reasonable sculpts for the most part, but with horrible chunky bases. Mixed in are a number of Italeri Elites and some Armourfast figures.

The AT support is only a 37mm Pak36, manned by HaT figures and this will need upgrading if used for mid/late war game. Note I have already made some provision by including a Panzerschreck. At the back are four command figures from Odemars German Commanders.