Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30

[OSHIROmodels]

Loverly jubberly 

[FramFramson]

Boooo les Vichy! Les traîtres devraient avoir honte d'eux-mêmes!

[Helen]

Lovely work Richard.

[SABOT]

Awesomeness in plenty. 👍

[Westfalia Chris]

A truly vichy-ous output, Captain.

Also, I'll take back what I said about the Dodge's camouflage. It looks great placed on the board, must have been the unicolour backdrop that put me off.

[Marine0846]

It is always a treat to see what you paint up.
Love your new toys.

[Ajax]

Simply fantastic work...

Ajax, French in awe.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Ajax et al. Merci beaucoup

Also, I'll take back what I said about the Dodge's camouflage. It looks great placed on the board, must have been the unicolour backdrop that put me off.

No need to take it back, Chris. These French camo patterns really are quite unbelievably melodramatic. You'd think they would draw attention rather than helping the vehicles disappear!
Looking again at the pictures of the models in situ, they obviously look a bit ridiculous with their bold green and brown camo standing out against the bleached sand of the open desert.
To be fair though, significant portions of Syria and the Levant have a fair amount of brush and plentiful groves and orchards - olives, citrus fruits, nuts, cypress - not to mention palms of all denominations and a wealth of flowering shrubs. So I guess they would blend in better in a more mixed Mediterranean environment...

[ARKOUDAKI]

  :-*Inspiring work as usual from you Richard! I would say keep up the good work but you also depress me with your painting skills!  I love that little French P16 AFV...don't know why but it just looks so cool.

So now your French are practically done, what's next???

[gamer Mac]

Lovely little force
Some very nice figures and unusual vehicles not often seen on wargames tables, I don't remember ever seeing a french desert force before.
Keep up the good work

[Johan]

Thanks Ajax et al. Merci beaucoup

No need to take it back, Chris. These French camo patterns really are quite unbelievably melodramatic. You'd think they would draw attention rather than helping the vehicles disappear!
Looking again at the pictures of the models in situ, they obviously look a bit ridiculous with their bold green and brown camo standing out against the bleached sand of the open desert.
To be fair though, significant portions of Syria and the Levant have a fair amount of brush and plentiful groves and orchards - olives, citrus fruits, nuts, cypress - not to mention palms of all denominations and a wealth of flowering shrubs. So I guess they would blend in better in a more mixed Mediterranean environment...

Not all camouflage was used to make the vehicle/airplane/ship/building to disappear, but to break up the contours. If they wanted to make something disappear they used camouflagenetting.

[Ballardian]

 Another lovely paintjob

[Captain Blood]

Thanks gents 

So now your French are practically done, what's next???

Haha. V funny Dr Rob!
Unfortunately, I have at least another half a dozen Vichy vehicles / guns and around 40 figures to go!
At my current slow rate of production, that'll see me through to Christmas at least...
I also have the British Perry RR A/C to do, and the new Rubicon SdKfz 222/3 kit - when I can actually get hold of one! (or two - I do fancy a squadron of these... )

But then...
More Perry WOTR mounted knights (have sat undercoated for two years...  ), some Perry Zulus, more Copplestone 15mm barbarians, a load of Feudal / GoT kitbashed figures to paint, and by then, the Perry HYW mounted set will be out, so more GoT mounted knights to be kitbashed.
Oh yes, and my Footsore Romano-Brits/Arthurians to finish off - another 5 year old project now! To which I added a few Saxon Miniatures... Sheesh. Oh yes, and another woolly mammoth and a terror bird for Cave Wars, plus a batch of late North Star C17th civilians, more Lucid Eye Amazons, some Knuckleduster old west gunfighters... The list goes on... And that's just all the prepped, undercoated stuff. Don't even get me started on the lead mountain... So much stuff to paint. So little time. 

[Ballardian]

 

and the new Rubicon SdKfz 222/3 kit - when I can actually get hold of one!

- I also noticed that the Rubicon UK store seemed to sell out instantly - fortunately Caliver Books Ebay store has them in stock (always found them a reliable seller)

ebay.co.uk/str/nannyogg999/Rubicon-Models/_i.html?_storecat=8449439012

[Axebreaker]

Just superb work Captain!!

Christopher