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

[Smokeyrone]

Jesucristo!   The painting!  Thats just top notch!

[Volleyfire!]

I'm glad you've painted this model because it's next on my wishlist and I wanted to see what it looked like in the flesh so to speak, before I committed to purchase. Mind you, you could turn a sow's ear into a silk purse Richard with your brushwork. Lovely job as usual.

[Captain Blood]

Haha - that's very kind of you to say so

I do assure you though, this is anything but a sow's ear. A really nice little model. Just a wee bit fiddly by sheer virtue of its small dimensions. But delightful just the same.

[ARKOUDAKI]

Richard, I really think you are getting the hang of this 'modelling' thing! Great work as usual.

So do tell, how different are the Rubicon bits (helmets, heads, etc) compared to the more slender Perry stuff???

[Captain Blood]

Why thank you Dr Rob. 

The Rubicon figures are actually a very good match to Perry for the most part.

The Rubicon M35 German helmet is a tiny bit more rounded-looking than the Perry version, which has that perfect shape. But pretty imperceptible.

The field cap however, is completely different - the Rubicon one is way too high crowned, regular looking, and with an overlarge peak.

In WW2 photos, for the most part the DAK field cap is quite squashy, low crowned, and with a smallish - usually squashed - peak. The Perry one is a much better representation, although even they need some work to soften down a little bit. You also have to get them at just the right jaunty angle... 

[Bugsda]

That BMW is excellent Richard  ....................'specially the goggles 

[Sinewgrab]

Captain, the brushwork is gorgeous! 

Would Warlord heads fit on these, do you think?  I want to make a unit of Bersaglieri on motorbikes, so I am wondering if this may be an option...

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Chris 

I don't have any Warlord WW2 figures, but I'm guessing they're going to be more like traditional chunky sized 28mm. Whereas the Rubicon figures, like Perry, are 'true' 1/56 - quite small and slender...

[tomcat51]

Captain, the brushwork is gorgeous! 

Would Warlord heads fit on these, do you think?  I want to make a unit of Bersaglieri on motorbikes, so I am wondering if this may be an option...

I find Warlord minis to be on the small side so they might be ok on a 1/56 model. Rubicon seem to build with the wargamer in mind anyway, rather than modellers.

[Sinewgrab]

My Italians feel slender next to any of my other collections with the exception of my Hasslefree and Statuesque figures, so I would probably be okay.  I can always blame it on the cockerel feathers if the heads look too big, right?  Thanks for the input!  And keep showing us this beautiful work...

[Ultravanillasmurf]

There is a comparison between Warlord and Perry British here:
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/perry-miniatures-eighth-army-comparison.html

I would assume that there are similar differences between the Germans.

[moiterei_1984]

Wonderful work Richard! Didn't even know this cutie was on sale already.

[Mason]

Having actually seen these in person today, I fell that I can honestly say that this is one of the best collections of any era, never mind WW2, that I have ever seen.

The sheer fiddlyness of these tiny fellas with such wonderful paintjobs really has to be seen to be believed.
And I had trouble seeing them, they are so tiny!

A truly wonderful project, Richard, that you should be rightly proud of.
 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Paul - that's very kind of you to say that 

Very sorry we didn't get much chance to say hello properly - but I was in the throes of the game!

Here are a few in-game shots (full report to follow, if I can manage to plough through a shedload of photos!)
The terrain is Silent Invader's brilliant, modular Afghan terrain, cunningly repurposed for North Africa with the addition of a few palm trees and a bit of tumbleweed 

[Keith]

Perfect scene-setting!