German Early War force for Barbarossa, part 11

First of the infantry for this lot are done.

Officers

Guards

Colour Code

In this case this army has the blue tab, and the chaps, fltr, are 2nd, 1st, 1st and 3rd platoon. HQ troops have no marker, support has a red marker

And the Sanni

 

Beauty shot:

KGN Weekend - The First Town - Tilly-Sur-Seulles, June 1944 - Part 2

First of the infantry, starting with support

81mm mortar team

Panzerschreck team

Static T-26 turret

For Rapid Fire, there is a scenario in which the Germans have to cross the river Bug (aptly named "Crossing the Bug" with Tauchpanzers etc) and the Russian defenders get a emplaced T-26 turret.

Much googling later I have this:

....which isn't much to go on. So I decided to keep it simple. 40x40mm base, 2 layers of plasticcard to raise it, brass barrel, drill a hole for the turret ( Pegasus BT-7 kit) so the turret can turn and a quick paintjob with some tufts. Nothing grandiose but it gets the job done.

Skytrex 105mm Mountain Gun

I received my order from the Skytrex sale last week and built the 105mm Mountain gun. The model itself is simple, a set of wheels, gun, gunshield, a choice to have the gun in a towed or ready to fire configuration with 2 sets of legs and a towhook (of which I have no idea where to put it tbh). The gun itself is a model of the Oto Melara 105mm Pack Howitzer. I picked up 2 to supply both my Lebanese and Yugoslavian forces with them. Which is also the reason for the plain Olive Drab scheme on this one, to be generic. I pinned the legs in place and made a new gunmount from plasticcard to raise the gun in the up position.

Skytrex FF682 British 105mm Pack Howitzer , £4.25 Does not come with any instructions.

KGN Weekend - The First Town - Tilly-Sur-Seulles, June 1944 - Part 1

My next gaming event will be the KGN Weekend, hosted by Piers and the GMG in Ireland, called "The First Town - Tilly-Sur-Seulles, June 1944", where 2 teams of 5 players each will fight it out, commanded by their respective team captain. The date is set and my ticket purchased, so lets get started, as I have a new army to build for this.

I've selected the following pre made list:

Player 4 - Feldwebel Brasche
Dismounted Grenadier Platoon
Sniper
StuG G Squadron
HMG Team
Panzerschrek Team
Medium Mortar Team
Pak 40 + tow

plus 2 Supply trucks

The supply trucks are not a problem, as I have quite a few of those so I will pick 2 of these

And I just finished the tow for the Pak 40, a Cromwell RSO/1, a real beaut of a cast.

MG Bunker

Just a few quick MG Bunker I cobbled up sunday afternoon. Just some toothpicks, plasticcard and filler on a 50x40mm plasticcard base.

 I copied the picture of the one that is sold for FoW, and took the frontage of my sandbagged bunker as a base (which is seen on its side in the pic....oops!). Quick, simple and easy for all of the periods I game in.

I'm most taken with my succes at painting Birch

Republic of Texas, 1938 (Crimson Skies)

When the Republic of Texas started looking at German aircraft to bolster its ranks, they sent sent over a zeppelin with attachees and their latest state of the art hardware. Included for the protection of the zeppelin it housed an entire Staffel (12 aircraft, Red, White and Yellow flight), something unheard of for a zeppelin of this size. The aircraft was the tried and tested Bf-105, a variant of the Bf-109 specifically designed for Zeppelin duty. Clipped wings, a short tail, but still packing a powerful engine, 2 20mm cannons in the wings and 2 MG's in the nose the Kleiner Messer (or unofficially called the Stiletto or Wespe) wasn't exactly a pilots dream to handle but was more then a match for pirates and militias. Yellow flight was equipped with the 20mm cannon nose submodel for added punch. Mock dogfights were held to show the strengths and weaknesses of the design vs Texas aircraft.

We now show you some of the gun camera footage.

 In the end, the Republic of Texas purchased several German designs, including production rights.

 This was my back up for my main entry Relic, cause I wasn't too sure yet if I could do distressed and weathered bare metal. The original mode, a old Airfix Me-109 was converted way back in 2008 after an original idea from John Paterson for a parasite fighter for Crimson Skies. It never progressed beyond a semi painted stage before being dumped into the spares bin.

 I was actually going to use the hulk as a test for Reals flight stand, to see if I could refit older magnet bases aircraft to the new system. This was rather succesful so I took out the hulk and overhauled it.

Added a adapter for the flight stand

 Fixed the problem of the propellor sticking out in front of the aircraft by adding some additional plasticcard

And gave it a good cleaning and sanding

 And here she is, Rote 3 (Red 3) in all of its colourful splender. Wingtips and nose are painted red for recognition purposes (in Yellow and White flight these correspond to the group name). The scheme is derived from German aircraft of that particular era.

I gave her a handpainted wooden prop. Quite a bit more surface area then the gunstocks I'm used to painting like this.

Something quite different compared to my recent output, I know, but made it cause I know there are some Crimson Skies fans outthere and I want to use this as a personal motivator for Modhail to kickstart his Crimson Skies interests again, and show it is possible to game this in 1/72 as well Hell, I'm even going to use it for VBCW for all I care.....