28mm late war British & Germans Arnhem etc

[carlos marighela]

RAF. Come as you are, wear what you want, just make sure the top button is unfastened. 

Lovely work mate!

[CapnJim]

Nice work on those.  As usual, of course...

[Ash]

Found some nice 3D printed tank crew, to go with the AVRE, on eBay.
Very smooth orange resin, with no layer lines.
From RKX, also picked up a couple of snipers.

[carlos marighela]

Found some nice 3D printed tank crew, to go with the AVRE, on eBay.
Very smooth orange resin, with no layer lines.
From RKX, also picked up a couple of snipers.

You been searching my browsing history Ash?

Only yesterday I came across them and was greatly tempted by their Philippine Scout Cavalry. They look like very tasty sculpts.

[jon_1066]

Did the AVRE crews have tank berets or were they equipped like engineers?

Were they engineers trained to operate a tank or tank crew trained to be engineers?

[carlos marighela]

There's quite a few photographs of members of the Assault Squadrons wearing what look like black berets with RE Cap badges.

That said I've also seen photos of a lighter beret possibly khaki, which seems odd as I would have presumed that anyone not wearing a Para, RAC or Marine beret woud have been wearing the GS cap. Then again they could just be nattily worn GS caps, which were of course khaki.

[carlos marighela]

Here you go:

[Ash]

Did the AVRE crews have tank berets or were they equipped like engineers?

Were they engineers trained to operate a tank or tank crew trained to be engineers?

Good question. Hadn't thought about that, was going to go with black as a default option.

There's quite a few photographs of members of the Assault Squadrons wearing what look like black berets with RE Cap badges.

That said I've also seen photos of a lighter beret possibly khaki, which seems odd as I would have presumed that anyone not wearing a Para, RAC or Marine beret woud have been wearing the GS cap. Then again they could just be nattily worn GS caps, which were of course khaki.

Just had a rummage around Google. Seen pics of blokes wearing both black berets, light berets and GS cap. Some in the same picture!





Wiki says AVRE had a demolition NCO in addition to the crew. Think I might do two in black and one khaki, just because...

Just did an image search for the GS cap and it seems the side cap was early war, later on a very beret looking khaki option.

[Steve F]

Never was a side cap better named!

[carlos marighela]

Look carefully and you'll notice that the chap in the black beret actually is a tankie as he's wearing the Tank Corps cap badge, while the bloke in the side cap has an RE cap badge. Funny, as despite its original provenance as an armoured division, 79 AD had most of its component 'teeth' units styled as RE Assault squadrons, at least the AVREs were nominally part of  RE squadrons.

Looks like folk hung on to the kit of their original unit. Tank helmets of course obviate the need for any distinction on figures in tank suits but the mix and match look is fun.

[jon_1066]

Looks like you can't go wrong however you paint them (well - just not red!)

Great info - thanks.

[RAFMSilverFox]

Just gamed against that Churchill tank with the mortar an got severely mauled. Thanks for the information on the monster.

[Eclaireur]

Ash - you may find some useful info on AVREs in this thread I did. Quite a few of the crewmen in the assault squadrons were transferred in from the RTR, hence the berets

https://x.com/Ec1aireur/status/1614299330252251136

[Ash]

Ash - you may find some useful info on AVREs in this thread I did. Quite a few of the crewmen in the assault squadrons were transferred in from the RTR, hence the berets

https://x.com/Ec1aireur/status/1614299330252251136

Thanks very much, I'll have a good read through.
Those Trenchworks AVREs look very nice.

[commissarmoody]

Did you buy into the latest Arnhem kickstarter?