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

[Eric the Shed]

great stuff ...might hijack some of these vehicle recommendations for my VBCW table

[Captain Blood]

Go for it Giles - a couple of them do look very VBCW-suitable don't they?

Meh, more WB2

Yes Nicholas, more World Bore Two (Do I go on about your stupid obsession with Mars? I mean do I? Do I?  )

Thanks Lou and thanks Keith, for those excellent sources and images 
So it seems like a three tone ochre/olive/brown camo scheme would be acceptable for Syria and the Levant then? Or variations of that...

Like this:

no H39 on Vichy side in Levant ( keep it for a future Free French in Levant one  )
no panhard 178 on both sides
no P16

Thanks Lou - I knew you would say that 

Luckily:

…
i/ I know this - and I don’'t care

They could have done, and that's my non-strictly-historically-accurate take on it

[Quendil]

Excellent, looking forward to seeing this progress.  Give me lots of inspiration for when i get round to my Desert forces 

[Silent Invader]

I do enjoy your take on the ‘desert’ armoured vehicles of WW2 

[lou passejaire]

i'm quite happy with this kind of camo for Levant :

[Sinewgrab]

Huh.  Does this mean I accidentally put a reasonably historical paintjob on my Neucraft R35?



Because, well, I wasn't really trying.

Captain, this is a wonderful project, but I have to ask - if you have answered this, I missed it - why no Italians?  They have become my WW2 army of choice just because, well, I'm not sure why.

[lou passejaire]

 

[Captain Blood]

Captain, this is a wonderful project, but I have to ask - if you have answered this, I missed it - why no Italians?  They have become my WW2 army of choice just because, well, I'm not sure why.

It's a fair question to which I don't know the answer. The Italian army of WW2 just doesn't grab me at all. Nothing about the history, the uniforms, the AFVs appeals to me in the least. Just not interested. Nothing against Italians in general. Just the look and feel and overall sorry story of the Italian army in North Africa in WW2 leaves me cold. Whereas there are so many interesting and appealing things about the Afrika Korps, the 8th Army and the Vichy French in the Near East.
Can't explain it - just the way I feel (I don't like Napoleonics either)

Meanwhile, a unifying coat of mid grey car primer shows a beneficial effect already... 







For completeness by the way, (sorry James ), I should have mentioned that the Rubicon Traction Avant comes with the option of shuttered military headlamps or civilian glass headlamps. I used the military ones on the Citroen, and swapped the civvy ones onto the Schneider half-track - since the metal ones that came with the Schneider were nowhere near as good

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice set of vehicles. Who made the FT?

[Captain Blood]

Who made the FT?

Warlord. (For a full run down, see p.78!)

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Warlord. (For a full run down, see p.78!)

Thanks.

[lou passejaire]

the Warlord FT is a nice model, just a bit oversized ...
a lot of the old WG models are either undersized or oversized in fact ...

[Ultravanillasmurf]

the Warlord FT is a nice model, just a bit oversized ...
a lot of the old WG models are either undersized or oversized in fact ...

How does it compare to the Empress one (or is the relationship similar to the Carden Loyd)?

[Keith]

Empress one is slightly smaller.

[lou passejaire]

do you plan some "exotic" troops ?
Tcherkess cavalry ?


Druzes

Meharists


or even an alternative Tanake crew :


collar patches of the levant special troops ( anything not French, North African or Senegalese )