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

[Quendil]

Lovely work.  Do you have a forces arm list?  Just looking for inspiration for when I d mine.

[Captain Blood]

Lovely work.  Do you have a forces arm list?  Just looking for inspiration for when I d mine.

Thanks. Not sure what a forces arm list is! Sorry 
Let me know and I'll happily provide the info.

[Quendil]

Thanks. Not sure what a forces arm list is! Sorry 
Let me know and I'll happily provide the info.

I meant an army list, brain and typing not in the same gear

[Mason]

Ha, the little striver applies for the German side in October, I think. Your german is good, little Paul.

Thank you, Dirky, but I shall be playing the Italians.
 

[Plynkes]

This is such an amazing thread. Words fail me in trying to express my admiration.


Did I dream it, or did someone say these placcy Perries are an odd scale, and that they don't play well with other ranges? My nephew has been looking at this thread and they have piqued his interest.

[Captain Blood]

Dylan, they are 'true 1/56' which is kind of halfway between a 28mm wargames figure and a 20mm Airfix plastic figure. If used to painting chunky 28mm lead wargames munchkins, they're a bit tricky. But actually, once you get the hang of them they're not too bad. And really they don't demand quite so much detail because they're that much smaller. That said, the plastics have a lot of lovely detail on them. The metal figures in the range are a bit more sketchy... I bought them, did a few, decided I couldn't handle them, and left it alone for a year. Second time round, I've persevered and got fairly adept at turning them out. But yeah - they are a bit titchy. The character you can get out of the plastics is fantastic though. Imagine a miniaturised version of the old Airfix 1/32 scale Multipose plastics, only with 5 times the amount of options in the box and you will see the appeal  

[Plynkes]

Ah right. Cheers.

I think he was more concerned with compatibility with other manufacturers than painting difficulty. Might be a hard sell if he can't use them with his other toys.

[Captain Blood]

Yep. They won't fit with any other 28mm figures very well at all. But they pass muster with 1/48 - 1/60 vehicles reasonably well.

I meant an army list, brain and typing not in the same gear

Ah, okay, well it just so happens...

Here are my (as things stand) orbats set up for 'Iron Cross'.
They do include a couple of slight adjustments, where the given AFV stats in the rules and various supplements looked a bit squiffy to me.
You can ignore the notes. They're just there to remind me of things in the rules I'd otherwise forget...  

It's not much use as an army list I'm afraid, because I have a very unhistorical 'one of each vehicle' - and they're not all strictly historically contemporaneous...
In fact, probably best to forget history altogether
It's more of a catalogue of what I've got so far...

I have several squads of infantry plus mortar teams, MG teams etc, for each side. Each component type is only shown once on this orbat master...

[Silent Invader]

loving the aesthetics of the title bars 

[Captain Blood]

I had to make a hasty edit when I realised I had fallen foul of the symbol use rule

[Plynkes]

I spotted that. It was a good catch. Very quick.

[Calimero]

Amazing work once again! I really like the different shades in the DAK uniforms

[NurgleHH]

Thank you, Dirky, but I shall be playing the Italians.
 

I hope you find a good book to fight the boring time...

[SABOT]

I could spend hours gazing at these! Beautiful job.

[Ray Rivers]

In fact, probably best to forget history altogether

Don't count yourself short.

Looks to me like you could set-up a clash between elements of a German Recon Battalion after a break-through running into a quickly thrown together defense.

But yea... you might start to get a bit more focused on what vehicles to get next, however, I don't think you really want to play Flames of War in 28mm.