Sgt T's WW2 Pacific project

[Sgt_T]

Finally decided to start a project which was buried in the pile of shame for some time:

28mm Australian platoon for the New Guinea campaign (Toofatlardies Chain of Command rules).

Although the Pacific War handbook hasn't been released yet I decided to start anyway using a mix of Warlord plastics (and a few metal ones with the Owen SMG).

First rifle section:





More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2024/08/project-ww2-pacific.html

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[Captain Darling]

Nice start Sgt_T!

Shouldn’t there be 10 men in the section, Leader with rifle, 3 man Bren Team and 6 man Rifle Team (one with an SMG)?

Love to see a picture of the ‘Owen Man’, a very underrated weapon.

Look forward to updates!

[Tom Dulski]

 off to a good start, I didn't realize that slouch hats were an option on the warlord sprue.

[Sgt_T]

Thanks Capt'n & Mr Dulski!

Shouldn’t there be 10 men in the section, Leader with rifle, 3 man Bren Team and 6 man Rifle Team (one with an SMG)?

Love to see a picture of the ‘Owen Man’, a very underrated weapon.

Indeed the section leader is missing. He's still in the queue 
The Owen guys are metal (from the Warlord Australian independent commando section box) and will follow later.

I didn't realize that slouch hats were an option on the warlord sprue.

Only on the sprues in the British Commonwealth Infantry in the Western Desert box.
These don't contain any British helmets. Instead the sprue contains Australian slouch hat heads, LRDG & SAS heads, South African sun helmet heads and New Zealand Lemon Squeezer hat heads.

Had a bit of spare time today and built a second section (again minus the section leader).





And two extra crew for the Vickers (the Warlord set comes with 3 crew).



More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2024/08/project-ww2-pacific-part-2.html

T.

[CapnJim]

Nice work so far.  Looking forward to more.

[Tom Dulski]

 I'm really loving these, they remind me of the airfix Australian infantry I had as a kid. I might have to buy a box of these Warlord.