CapnJim's WW2 Stuff: Spring '45 Scenario #1 AAR...Page 17...27 Jul 25).

[carlos marighela]

Nice looking team! Love the bangalore guys. You should give one of them a Zippo to light it.

[Utgaard]

These chaps look nice - and they are very useful too 

[CapnJim]

Nice looking team! Love the bangalore guys. You should give one of them a Zippo to light it.

Thanks.  If you look close, that team leader has a cigarette hangin' from his mouth.  I'm quite sure he'd have a Zippo.  But we used Pull-ring Fuse Ignitors...

These chaps look nice - and they are very useful too 

Thanks.  I plan for them to be useful in some upcoming games I have in mind...

[carlos marighela]

Thanks.  If you look close, that team leader has a cigarette hangin' from his mount.  I'm quite sure he'd have a Zippo.  But we used Pull-ring Fuse Ignitors...

Thanks.  I plan for them to be useful in some upcoming games I have in mind...

Yeah, it's all moved on since using safety fuses. I understand the modern equivalent is 3 star pickets, some PE and some det cord that comes as a kit.

Missed the burning ciggie. Nice touch! Lucky Strikes. It's toasted!

[FriendlyNeighbourhoodNerd]

Combat Engineers looking great! Really like the mix of uniforms, gives em a nice realistic/rag-tag sort of feel.

[CapnJim]

Yeah, it's all moved on since using safety fuses. I understand the modern equivalent is 3 star pickets, some PE and some det cord that comes as a kit.

Missed the burning ciggie. Nice touch! Lucky Strikes. It's toasted!

Well, my combat engineer gig was 40+ years ago...

And, yes, either Lucky Strikes or Camel unfiltereds...

Combat Engineers looking great! Really like the mix of uniforms, gives em a nice realistic/rag-tag sort of feel.

Thanks.  I like the uniform mix too.   

[Digits]

Yup looking good fella.   Loving these engineers.

[CapnJim]

Thanks!  As I mentioned, it was kinda a trip down memory lane building and painting them...

[Digits]

Yup, I enjoyed converting my winter German engineers…..just a shame they have limited use in game! 😕

[CapnJim]

I know what you mean.  But I'm getting ready for some WW2 action later this year with my regular gaming group.  Engineers might come in handy in a scenario or 2 I plan to use from a fairly recent issue of Wargames, Soldiers, & Strategies...

[CapnJim]

I've managed to do up another squad of German Volksgrenadiers (or maybe just Heer dressed for inclement weather).  I took one sprue each of Warlord's Grenadiers, Waffen SS, Winter Infantry, and Winter Fallschirmjager, and kit-bashed them into a 9-man gruppe.  A body from this sprue, arms from that sprue, gear from another sprue, and so on.  I now present to you with what I came up.

First, we have the NCOs and the MG42 team...




And here are the Schutzen...




And here they all are together...



With these chaps, that gives me 2 full platons of German infantry, with support weapons.  At some point (maybe in 2026), I need to fill out my Waffen SS and Panzerlehr platoons...

Now, it's time to work on some vehicles and terrain.  Of course, pics will follow as events warrant... 

[Digits]

They look great fella.

[carlos marighela]

They do indeed!

[Sakuragi Miniatures]

Nice kitbashing, that's one of the parts I like the most about Warlord kits- especially the Germans. Your paint gives them personality.

[Utgaard]

They look outstanding, very well done!