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Author Topic: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30  (Read 276634 times)

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.87 - Vichy 75mm gun added (16 September)
« Reply #1320 on: September 18, 2018, 07:23:15 PM »
Fabulous job Richard, you’ve made the figures look decidedly Un-ropey  ;) 8) 8) 8)

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.87 - Vichy 75mm gun added (16 September)
« Reply #1321 on: September 19, 2018, 07:00:12 AM »
Richard, when you started with the tanks and weathering it was a little bit tomuch for me, but this Gun is perfect. looking forwardnto your next tank.

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.87 - Vichy 75mm gun added (16 September)
« Reply #1322 on: September 19, 2018, 02:55:21 PM »
Get in! Love these Vichy.

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.87 - Vichy 75mm gun added (16 September)
« Reply #1323 on: September 22, 2018, 10:24:55 AM »
Thanks lads :)

Here's the first squad of Senegalese Tirailleurs.
I've taken Keith's and Lou's advice, and gone so far with the leather trim on the bread bags. Unfortunately, the moulding on some of the bags isn't great - they don't even have straps, so I've left the straps as canvas - where they exist.

I hate to keep being critical of my favourite sculptors, but once again, the moulding really isn't great - serious mould lines, some of which were impossible to get at / shift, and all the rifles were bent to buggery when I got them out of the box... Salvageable, but a nuisance. I really wish whoever does the Perrys' casting for them had better quality control... :(

They're also a bugger to paint. So many straps and fiddly-diddly bits of gear. As bad as Nappies  :-[

After all of which complaining, they've turned out okay...
Hey ho... Only another 30 or so of the buggers to go.
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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1324 on: September 22, 2018, 10:32:36 AM »
beautiful stuff sir

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1325 on: September 22, 2018, 10:34:47 AM »
Noice! I do like to see a good tarboosh or two. I must have have a million figures with them myself. Big Tommy Cooper fan, see.

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1326 on: September 22, 2018, 10:38:55 AM »
Very nicely done, despite the travails.

Does the enemy get +1 Shooting for a big red target to aim at?!
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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1327 on: September 22, 2018, 10:47:39 AM »
Shiny  :D
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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1328 on: September 22, 2018, 11:20:51 AM »
Thanks.

Noice! I do like to see a good tarboosh or two. I must have have a million figures with them myself. Big Tommy Cooper fan, see.

Just like that.

Does the enemy get +1 Shooting for a big red target to aim at?!

Most of the WW2 ones I've seen pics of, actually appear to be white / cream / natural, but fuck it - everyone knows fezzes are red. I've got a boxful of the things myself (don't ask) :D
And in earlier times French colonial troops definitely wore red tarboosh, so...
As pointed out with the extensive list of 'WW2 French AFVs that never saw action in the colonies', I'm not being strictly historically accurate here...

Speaking of which, it's the Panhard armoured car coming up next...  :D

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1329 on: September 22, 2018, 11:29:25 AM »
about the straps ... the bread bags could be used with a strap , or hung to the belt so ...
nice job, as always for Senegaleses  ( no kaki in the summer kit, except the bags, and putees )
and no red Fez in campaign dress ... ( so no +1 to hit  ;D )
but it's Captain Blood alternative world  ;) full of beautifully painted minis ...

( moulding quality control ? it's in your alternative world, my dear  ;) )

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1330 on: September 22, 2018, 11:42:54 AM »
Lovely!
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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1331 on: September 22, 2018, 12:41:35 PM »
I love them.   If you hadn't mentioned the lack of straps I'm sure we'd have been none the wiser.

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1332 on: September 22, 2018, 07:44:13 PM »
Cracking stuff

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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1333 on: September 22, 2018, 08:13:26 PM »
Lovely brushwork Richard. The Senegalese come up a treat.
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Re: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.89 - Vichy Senegalese Tirailleurs (17 Sept)
« Reply #1334 on: September 22, 2018, 08:39:07 PM »
They are a lovely little unit Richard, I'm currently painting Perrys Napoleonic British Light Infantry so I know where you're coming from when you talk about hard to paint lol

 

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