28mm WWII North Africa collection

Last year I paid a visit to Dave Thomas's to see the massive collections of figures etc... that he has ,and took the opportunity to take some shots of the WWI early desert stuff that I have done for him over the last few years on his games set up.

Now the piccies haven't come out as good as I would have liked due to the lighting at the time but I am sure you will agree are worth a look.

Above and below are the Axis forces ,mostly the Italians and their desert patrol with a lovely German Marder II & Eight Rad added in . All the pieces are Perry's obviously.

Below we have the LRDG. Long range desert group heading out to try and intercept the Italian column and nick the supplies plus a classic 12pdr gun that I couldn't leave out. 

28mm Napoleonic West Indies

Well I actually though that I had these on the blog but it seems not...this collection belongs to my great mate Jonny Martin and was started many ,many years ago with the first British from 1st Corps and then added to recently with the new Trent stuff.

Am hoping Jon will tell me we are going to have a few games of Sharp Practice with these in the near future as they are perfect.

For many of the French I have used the French 7yw figures from 1st Corps that are in undress as they are still perfect for the later period undress as seen below...

All below are figures from the great Trent collection and I have to say they were a pleasure to paint.

More WWII Early War French Update 1

Below are the Artillery and Heavy tank added to my friend Johns French forces...most of the figures are from Warlord Games this time round but fit in really well with the earlier Crusader figures as the can see from the earlier post that I've added to the bottom of this one.

First we have the Char 2C Heavy tank...This French tank was one of the biggest ever built ,but so very little action if none at all as most were captured by the Germans on rail cars during the early stages heading away from the action. Also we have the 105mm Heavy Howitzer manned here by four men.

Next with the others we see the 75mm light gun a mainstay of French forces

 at the time and when used properly a foil for German armour.

ORIGINAL POST

Having finally finished these lovely Early French for my friend John. I took the opportunity for a little shoot and chose the idea of a line of troops setting up against a fence line awaiting the German onslaught. The figures are from Crusader miniatures who do a fine range of these French for this period.

28mm Napoleonic Prussian Pomeranian Landwehr

Was having a good look through many of my photos from last year and found these lovely units of Calpe Miniatures Prussian Pomeranian Landwehr.

The three battalions shown with yellow ,white and red shoulder straps are all very different but at first glance look all like the same unit. 

But all are very different and were awaiting there final standards to be added by their owner Paul S.

I remember clearly painting these ,and who wouldn't ,the figures are beautiful and a pleasure to work on.

I remember Paul telling me they were for a re-fight of Ligny/ Wavre were they fought during the Waterloo campaigh

28mm Napoleonic Russian Hussars & French Dragoons

After a long crazy Christmas finally back in the swing ...there has been car crashes ,wife in hospital and no car to use but that is all behind now and onwards and upwards.

Below you will see some lovely Napoleonics done for the collection of my friend Paul S. they are Perry Miniatures and represent the Russian Marioumpal Hussars (in blue and yellow) and the Soumy Hussars (in red and grey)...The first rank of the Hussars are all carrying lances and this itself was a quiz as there are no clear references to all the lance pennants used by Hussars but the two used here are definates.

I painted the Hussar horses using oils with light yellow undercoats giving a lighter brown and chestnut final colour making them slightly lighter to the dragoons in finish.

Here we have the Perry's Dragoons all of which are the metal figures with bed roles and campaign look... They are painted here as the 7th Dragoons and as mentioned above this time the horses were painted with a darker earthen undercoat with the oil finish therefore a darker bay then those of the Hussars.

Finally below some scenes showing all the units on the field.