Author Topic: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30 (Read 280873 times)

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1260 on:** July 29, 2018, 02:45:17 PM »

Merci Lou.
And thanks, El Grego

Unfortunately, midway through painting my next Vichy AFV (I'm onto the Schneider), I've become sorely distracted by the excellent recent Perry Rolls Royce armoured car, also crafted by Molecatcher John I believe

So I've been working on this when I really should have been painting!

It's a sharp little model, and will be another spiffing addition in Caunter to my British and Commonwealth vehicle park. Perfect for early war Syria and the Levant too.
The A/C commander figure that accompanies the model however, is - IMHO - a rare miss from the brilliant Michael Perry. He's just a bit too big-headed and top-heavy looking. Just don't like the way he looks in situ.

I've therefore concocted a new vehicle commander plus a passenger for that nice rear stowage bay... These are kit-bashed from Perry plastic 8th Army parts along with parts from the new Rubicon Models British tank crew set... Very handy

Ballardian · « **Reply #1261 on:** July 29, 2018, 03:14:26 PM »

That RR armoured car is lovely (& despite not yet playing early war I've been rather twitchily wanting one since seeing the gorgeous 1/6 Armortek one at Tankfest this year) - excellent solution with the Perry & Rubicon figure too

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #1262 on:** July 29, 2018, 03:43:58 PM »

Looks neat.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1263 on:** July 30, 2018, 03:00:54 AM »

Tis a nice model (pity about the rear side of the front tyres) but IIRC by 1940, all the RRs in the Middle East would be on Fordson chassis, save maybe for the odd remaining RAF one in Aden or Iraq. Most of the ones in Egypt seem either to have been the 1924 version or heavily converted 1921 from the photos I've seen. Open topped horseshoe turrets with a miscellany of weapons (Boys, Lewis, Brens etc) or they have a small ring mount for a Lewis mounted on original turrets.

Perfectly fine for interwar but i'm surprised Blitzkrieg went with an older model, given their WW2 focus. Perhaps they have plans for other versions in the pipeline?

FramFramson · « **Reply #1264 on:** July 30, 2018, 08:54:52 AM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on July 29, 2018, 10:42:13 AM

Thanks Chris.

I think the camo may look harsh because the French often used hard outlines around their blobs of colour.

Whereas most countries made their AFV camo schemes as deliberately muddy and indistinct as possible, I guess that singular, idiosyncratic, avant-garde French design ethic, drove them to make their patches of different colour camo as stylish and distinct as possible by outlining them in black, white, or more subtle tones...

These are attempts to recreate that unique Gallic look...

The Ligne Clair of camo schemes.

lou passejaire · « **Reply #1265 on:** July 30, 2018, 11:39:13 PM »

Ligne Claire, but sometimes with a "je ne sais quoi" of Paris :

FramFramson · « **Reply #1266 on:** July 31, 2018, 07:36:07 PM »

I'm sure no soldier who'd been in the field for weeks would notice THAT outline...

Alternately: "Paint me like one of your french camouflage schemes."

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #1267 on:** July 31, 2018, 08:26:05 PM »

Quote from: FramFramson on July 31, 2018, 07:36:07 PM

I'm sure no soldier who'd been in the field for weeks would notice THAT outline...

Alternately: "Paint me like one of your french camouflage schemes."

But would probably not notice the vehicle.

FramFramson · « **Reply #1268 on:** August 01, 2018, 08:11:36 PM »

Quote from: Ultravanillasmurf on July 31, 2018, 08:26:05 PM

But would probably not notice the vehicle.

Yes, I understand the principle works something like this:

I understand wargamers in particular are known for trying to employ this tactic against one another...

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1269 on:** August 11, 2018, 01:46:46 PM »

Getting tres Francais around here...

I've now finished the Warlord Games AMC Schneider P16 half-track which is a kind of classically odd interwar Gallic creation - armoured car-cum-half track-cum tankette.
It's a bit of a lumpy old casting truth be told, and the tracks don't fit properly. But I've done the best I can with it.

Pictured with a Perry Vichy French officer for scale.

Lou passejaire says these peculiar vehicles never made it to Syria and the Levant, and I believe him. But in my wargames world they could have done - so that's alright

This is a third style of camouflage - again with the heavy outlining. This time, it's the two tone patches of colour outlined in black. And less wormy, wavy shapes.

Only 173 known WW2 French camouflage styles to go.