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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on 19 April 2020, 02:07:39 PM

Title: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 19 April 2020, 02:07:39 PM
"Gott in Himmel. Zer ist zer devils mitt kilts!!!"

 :o
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 19 April 2020, 02:09:38 PM
"Potting!"

"Sir!"

"Blue Bonnets!"


 :)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 19 April 2020, 02:13:21 PM
"With all due respect Ginger, you weren't at Wadi Fookem when we nobbled the flower of that Rommel bloke's Pansy Grenadiers, now were yew?"

;)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: FlyXwire on 19 April 2020, 02:18:05 PM
They're exuding personality!

(most of the 51st Highland Dvi., Black Watch?)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 19 April 2020, 02:35:54 PM
Hoots Mon! The Black Watch it is!

 ;)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: SABOT on 19 April 2020, 02:37:44 PM
Terrific stuff! Reminds me of a certain time ......
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Swordisdrawn on 19 April 2020, 03:02:33 PM
Very smart
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Shahbahraz on 20 April 2020, 05:20:46 PM
I've still never heard an actual Scotsman say 'Hoots Mon'. Just sayin'
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 24 April 2020, 09:07:37 AM
Just to say a little thank you to our very own dadlamassu. I was short of an arm carrying an MG42, this kind member posted one to me, first class post, fer nowt!
Thanks to D the DAK section have now got their gun and gunner.

:)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 25 April 2020, 08:12:02 AM
I've found a new way to send yersen demented...
painting Fallschirmjager splinter pattern in 28mm, then adding the 'raindrops' with a pin.
If you think painting 'pea dot' cammo sends you to the gates of madness, trust me, splinter pattern sends you right through 'em, kicking and screaming, at ninety miles an hour!
Will someone please confirm that Jerry Paras in North Africa often wore a plain sand coloured smock?

:o
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Blackwolf on 25 April 2020, 08:39:20 AM
Many wore the same smocks they wore in Crete,or no smocks at all,shirt sleeves,British kit et cetera were popular.Google Brigade Ramke,images. You can’t go far wrong. As far as I’m aware no smocks were specifically designed for North Africa.
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 25 April 2020, 10:54:14 AM
As far as I’m aware no smocks were specifically designed for North Africa.

That's just bleedin' marvelous...
Oh, well, here goes the last of the Favershams!

 ;D
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: CHALLY on 27 April 2020, 12:32:14 PM
Terrific inspiration.
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 27 April 2020, 05:15:51 PM
Terrific inspiration.

Thanks, but it's turned bloody dangerous...
The Fallschirmjager's just turned up!

 :(
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: SABOT on 28 April 2020, 12:13:08 AM
Excellent!! Head down and tighten ya chin straps Lads!
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 28 April 2020, 12:58:41 AM
Bags o' smoke...
and in with the bayonet!

 :o
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 28 April 2020, 08:14:37 AM
It always seems to wind up with Paras!
Now Captain Faversham, fresh from Blighty with elements of 1st Parachute Brigade, has come to bring a bit of tone to the vulgar brawl!

::)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 06 May 2020, 10:57:57 PM
Well, today's been a funny old day in the New Emporium by the Seaside. For the first time since 1970 I've glued together a 1:48 scale armoured vehicle and thoroughly enjoyed it!
A very impressive Rubicon SdKfz 222 armoured car, it's gone together like a dream and is ready for priming and painting. This will give the Germans a bit of punch in their next encounter with the Desrt Rats.

:)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 08 May 2020, 07:59:13 AM
My admiration for this little Rubicon model has gone up a notch as the paint's going on. I thought I detected a flaw in the wheel's casting, a definite flat bit, then I realised it was on all four. You can only put the wheels on one way and the flat bit goes to the bottom...
back in the seventies, any modeler who turned up at our local IPMS meeting, with a truck's tyres sanded down a tad on the bottom was immediately elected a modelling superstar and given a medal!
Even I can't bugger this little toy up, it's almost creating itself.

:-*
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on 12 May 2020, 03:49:57 PM
"Potting?"

"No, Sir, it's just the way I have to walk when playing this bloody thing."
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 15 May 2020, 08:28:10 AM
Even I can't bugger this little toy up, it's almost creating itself.

:-*

For once I was right!
I've got a well doody little DAK runaround to play with in spite of my crap modelling skills. Now all I have to do is entice the little bastard into range of B Company's Boys gunner.

:)
Title: Re: "Achtung!!!"
Post by: Harry Faversham on 15 May 2020, 11:51:28 AM
Last time I glued one of these together it was Airfix from the dawn of time. I'd forgotten how much bigger 1:48 was...

::)