Warlord Plastic DAK Schutzen (9/2 trucks!)

[ancientsociety]

If I'm being honest, I only made these Schutzen for my Afrika Korps armoured platoon because I got two sprues of the new Warlord multi-part plastic kit for free and wanted to beef up the army to 1000pts. By combining them with an extra sprue of Warlord Blitzkrieg troops I had laying around, I was able to get 18 men for about $5 - a bargain if there ever was one.

More pics and painting info:
https://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2019/04/afrika-korps-schutzen.html

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

They look good - well done

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice work.

[Shahbahraz]

They look very good. My one issue with the sculpts is that the boots/feet look big.

[ancientsociety]

They look very good. My one issue with the sculpts is that the boots/feet look big.

I can't unsee this...

[ancientsociety]

To transport my squads of Afrika Korps troops around the Western Desert, I needed some trucks. Not wanting to shell out another $30+ on some 1/56 scale plastic kits for an army that was really done as a fun side project, I went looking for alternatives and stumbled on Matchbox's Models of Yesteryear. I liked the look of the WW1-era British Crossley Tenders and picked up two for $10. And I can already hear the rivet counters say in unison "Well, actually..." and they would be right - it's ahistorical to drop these 25 years on in the middle of Egypt or Libya, but my headcanon says they picked these up from some old British fuel dump somewhere and borrowed them, permanently.

More pics and info:
https://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2019/09/afrika-korps-schutzen-truckson-budget.html

[has.been]

the Afrika Korp 'borrowed permanently' their Italian allies transports after El Alamien,
so they obviously are not that fussy about what they drive, or who previously owned it.