Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30

[Truscott Trotter]

I didn't know Perrys did 1/6th scale 
Stunning work never seen any quite that lifelike at that scale before 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks gents. Much appreciated

The buildings; I am guessing they are scratch built. I think texture and paintjob look very good. Care to enlighten us how you did them?

Peder, alas no. They are resin I'm afraid. Not quite sure - Hovels maybe? I have quite a collection of adobes from various manufacturers. But most of them are 20+ years old.

Just superb ..... tons of inspiration too as we're teetering on the edge of starting a 28mm Desert project, Perry figs with Tamiya and Rubicon vehicles probably.

Thanks Brent. From an AFV modelling and painting maestro such as yourself, that would be well worth seeing. I hope you teeter over that edge! 

They DO look like the men of yesteryears we know from monochrome photographs.

Like this, perhaps? 

[Michi]

Like this, perhaps? 

I knew I had seen it before! 

[Constable Bertrand]

A wonderful entry captain!! 

I like the squatting geezer with the white teeth and askew tin hat. 

Cheers
Matt

[ghpainting]

Beautiful painting sir. Love the b&w very atmospheric

[rumacara]

Missed this thread untill now.
Lovelly work Richard.
Kitbashing in ww2 too?
Yeahhh!!!

[lou passejaire]

stunning ....

 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks all 
Afrika Korps to follow in a few weeks 

[Bullshott]

Only just found this thread. Fantastic stuff as usual Richard

[Hammers]

I knew I had seen it before! 

That's like a still from Capra's "Tunisian victory".

[Captain Blood]

[Helen]

Lovely brushwork and photos Richard. Looking forward in seeing your Afrika Korps.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Helen 

Here they are, fresh from the LPL.

Wonderful Perry plastic figures. Fiddly as heck to paint, but such a pleasure to create characters from.

A word of advice freely offered to anyone taking these on - to get the forage caps to sit right, you need to shave a generous slice off the top of the bare head. And then, once glued on and set, you need to take a blade and shave around the sides and rear of the cap, so it sits down flush onto the head, like a real fabric cap would do.
If you just stick them on straight from the box, they don't sit right, and don't look right. Too sticky-out...
Hopefully, these look right... 

As with the 8th army, a jaunty angle for the headgear also helps 











And in horribly revealing close-up... 

[Hammers]

These are great. Who makes that mosque?

[Dolmot]

Great stuff, definitely, but why do I hear Village People?