Author Topic: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30 (Read 279603 times)

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #1185 on:** June 22, 2018, 07:00:05 PM »

great stuff ...might hijack some of these vehicle recommendations for my VBCW table

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1186 on:** June 22, 2018, 07:03:35 PM »

Go for it Giles - a couple of them do look very VBCW-suitable don't they?

Quote from: Malamute on June 22, 2018, 06:24:47 PM

Meh, more WB2

Yes Nicholas, more World Bore Two

(Do I go on about your stupid obsession with Mars? I mean do I? Do I?

)

Thanks Lou and thanks Keith, for those excellent sources and images

So it seems like a three tone ochre/olive/brown camo scheme would be acceptable for Syria and the Levant then? Or variations of that...

Like this:

Quote from: lou passejaire on June 22, 2018, 05:49:49 PM

no H39 on Vichy side in Levant ( keep it for a future Free French in Levant one )
no panhard 178 on both sides
no P16

Thanks Lou - I knew you would say that

Luckily:

Quote from: Captain Blood on June 22, 2018, 11:35:27 AM

…
i/ I know this - and I don’'t care

They could have done, and that's my non-strictly-historically-accurate take on it

Quendil · « **Reply #1187 on:** June 22, 2018, 07:06:20 PM »

Excellent, looking forward to seeing this progress. Give me lots of inspiration for when i get round to my Desert forces

Silent Invader · « **Reply #1188 on:** June 22, 2018, 07:34:39 PM »

I do enjoy your take on the ‘desert’ armoured vehicles of WW2

lou passejaire · « **Reply #1189 on:** June 22, 2018, 10:49:01 PM »

i'm quite happy with this kind of camo for Levant :

Sinewgrab · « **Reply #1190 on:** June 23, 2018, 02:49:05 AM »

Huh. Does this mean I accidentally put a reasonably historical paintjob on my Neucraft R35?

Because, well, I wasn't really trying.

Captain, this is a wonderful project, but I have to ask - if you have answered this, I missed it - why no Italians? They have become my WW2 army of choice just because, well, I'm not sure why.

lou passejaire · « **Reply #1191 on:** June 23, 2018, 07:27:13 AM »

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1192 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:43:11 AM »

Quote from: Sinewgrab on June 23, 2018, 02:49:05 AM

Captain, this is a wonderful project, but I have to ask - if you have answered this, I missed it - why no Italians? They have become my WW2 army of choice just because, well, I'm not sure why.

It's a fair question to which I don't know the answer. The Italian army of WW2 just doesn't grab me at all. Nothing about the history, the uniforms, the AFVs appeals to me in the least. Just not interested. Nothing against Italians in general. Just the look and feel and overall sorry story of the Italian army in North Africa in WW2 leaves me cold. Whereas there are so many interesting and appealing things about the Afrika Korps, the 8th Army and the Vichy French in the Near East.
Can't explain it - just the way I feel (I don't like Napoleonics either)

Meanwhile, a unifying coat of mid grey car primer shows a beneficial effect already...

For completeness by the way, (sorry James

), I should have mentioned that the Rubicon Traction Avant comes with the option of shuttered military headlamps or civilian glass headlamps. I used the military ones on the Citroen, and swapped the civvy ones onto the Schneider half-track - since the metal ones that came with the Schneider were nowhere near as good