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

[Mason]

Oooh!
Nice little kit.
That looks fun to build and paint.
 


Looks a little like an Ork Wartrak. You sure you are not heading in that direction...?
 

[Captain Blood]

...stop it...

 

[gamer Mac]

Looking good so far
Looking forward to the paint job

[Mason]

...stop it...

 

 

OK, I will.
 

[Dr Mathias]

Looks a little like an Ork Wartrak. You sure you are not heading in that direction...?
 

Hehehehehe I wouldn't have taken Captain Blood for an Ork fan, now that you mention it... 

[carlos marighela]

Wait till he finds out the name of the theatre commander of British forces at the time. 

Kismet.

[warburton]

Cracking thread....encouraging to see one really can get stellar results without use of an airbrush.

[Axebreaker]

Stunning German group shot and conversion is looking good!

Christopher

[ARKOUDAKI]

  That Kettenkrad looks really good, especially with your conversion bits. Jealous... Keep up the good work Richard!

[Redmist1122]

Impressive vehicle collection.  What scale?

[Captain Blood]

1/56 scale vehicles, 28mm figures 

[Sinewgrab]

So, these are not appropriate? I am just trying to help.

[Redmist1122]

1/56 scale vehicles, 28mm figures 

Awesome...thank you!

[Captain Blood]

A little amuse-bouche for you...

I'm building and painting some Perry plastic Zulus at the moment, and it suddenly occurred to me that with a bit of kitbashing I could produce some more semi-clad soldiers for the Western Desert (not to mention some African troops for the Commonwealth forces). In many contemporary WW2 photographs from North Africa, you see bare-chested troops in shorts, on both sides, but particularly the Germans. Whereas the Perry DAK set - brilliant as it is - has the figures all fully buttoned up in tunics, long sleeves, and long trousers or breeches.

So this chap is a Zulu body and arms with skirt trimmed off, with an Afrika Korps head, cap, boots and rifle. Shorts, sand scarf, and rolled down socks added in Green Stuff.

Given that the Perry plastic WW2 sets are avowedly 'true 1/56 scale' - so smaller and slighter than most 28mm wargames figures - whereas the Zulus aren't, I did wonder if they'd fit together okay. Actually, it's a perfect fit. I guess because the Zulus are modelled as fairly lithe, they don't have the bulk of most 28mm figures, so the two sets are very compatible.

I call this model 'Run Willi, run!'

[FreakyFenton]

Cool idea! I was wondering if the Warlord 8th army and DAK could be cut up and united to produce the aforementioned. But this is even better. 
Clever combination and good idea. Probably stealing it.