Tuesday 3 December 2019

And Now For Something Completely Different

After all of the Napoleonic and other 19th Century items completed in the last couple of years, I have shifted forward a hundred or so years to 1940.

A couple of others in the group have collections of 28mm WWII, focussing on the early Blitzkrieg period. Now I am not a huge fan of WWII gaming - much of it is too technical for my simple brain - but if I sm going to do this war the it us going to be this early period, specifically the Battle of France. So since one of these players has a reasonable sized French (which would have been my first preference) I decided to do a small German force and since the early version of the Hanomag half-track has always been a favourite of mine, I decided to do a Panzer Grenadier platoon, supported by a Panzer II, an HMG team and a heavy mortar team. In due course I will add a couple more tanks for variation (maybe a 38t and a Pz III) and perhaps an infantry gun.









But for now here are the three Hanomags and the PzII.

8 comments:

  1. Something completely different, for sure! Your vehicles look terrific. Who makes the models?

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. They were fun to do. They are all Warlord Games pieces...one of my Black Friday purchases.

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  2. Terrific work on these Mark, and you have done the weathering perfectly. It looks very natural where some others can look as though they have just driven through a hailstorm. Did you use pigments, or dry brush?

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    1. The weathering is all by dry brush, although some if the corrosion spots are just using a stippled brush. I have started the assembly of the infantry and will work on them while I finish off the Bavarians.

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  3. Nice change of pace! Weathering is excellent!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain. I enjoy weathering, but hate waterslide decals with a passion!

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  4. Well you don't waist much time do you? ;-)

    Lovely looking toys... and I am with you on a preference for early WW2...

    All the best Aly

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    1. Waste time...me...never...well maybe on a hot day when the ale is cold, or late on a Saturday night and there is good company, good wine and the problems of the world are ready to be solved...but many would say that is not a waste of time.

      With WWII I can't stand slogging through the fortress of Tiger tanks. The early war, where the equipment is more basic, there is much more opportunity for mistakes and muddling through.

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