British Infantry Brigade

Here are the three British Infantry battalions combined into a Brigade complete with support units.

The three infantry battalions are at the front with from left to right, an MG company, transport pool sufficient for one battalion, Brigade HQ and medics


The Brigade HQ and the medics still need rebasing and I realised that I don't have an ambulance! The battalion at the front right still needs its carriers and these are waiting in the stash


Everything OK at this end


Is the end of the rebasing? of course not I still have to work on the artillery, but that'll wait until after Vapnartak at York this weekend

British Motor Battalion

Another batch of rebasing finished, again mainly Italeri, with Hat heavy weapons and some Revell Piat teams


With the exception of the Airfix carriers all the vehicle are by Frontline

Another battalion of WW2 British Infantry

Rebasing Italeri figures this time. I thought I'd add the transport to show how they will appear in action

Vehicles are Airfix QLTs and Carriers and Frontline 15cwt and the carrier with a tilt

French Artillery in Egypt

A change from all that unrelenting Khaki a shift back to circa 1800 with some French Artillery in Egypt. The figures are those from Strelets, but they a really a generic set of Revolutionary wars French Artillery rather than being specifically for Egypt.
Rather than using the guns provided, which looked too big and heavy to use for field operations I use a couple of spares, probably HaT

None of my sources give any information on the train personnel, they were still unmilitarised in France at the time, but if anyone has any more details please add a comment

WW2 British Infantry - Almark

These are my oldest remaining British Infantry, they are the classic Staden sculpts produced by Almark. They are showing their age and I decided on a simple rebase (probably the fourth time)rather than trying to touch them Up as I suspect that would have turned into a complete repaint.

Luckily Charles who looked at my original layout spotted that the grenade throwers didn't have rifles. I couldn't get any way back in the early days, but now I had some in my bits box so that was the only upgrade.

AS with the previous unit the 6pdr is waiting to be replaced

WW2 British rebasing - Commandos

First battalion of my British is rebased and I picked my Commandos to start. The unit is made up of the Esci/Italeri Commando set with a few head swaps, etc for the heavy weapons.

I had checked the Rapid Fire books and scenarios before starting, but it seems that all have a different establishment, so I have just based them and marked tem to use all my existing figures.

Basicall a HQ troop, five rifle troops and a Support troop

DAK 150mm SP Gun

Properly called the "15cm sFH13/1 (Sf) auf Geschuetzwagen Lorraine Schlepper (f)" a rather nice pair of models from 20mm Zone. My only problem was fitting the tracks square on the hull, in the end I just fixed them in place with superglue then added epoxy behind to give a firm grip.



Crewmen are a few oddments from the bits bow rather than the metal gunners provided