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

[former user]

Go with the Tamiya kits,they are superb and to my eyes scale perfectly

the remarkable thing is that Blitzkrieg will do both 1/48 and 1/56.....

[essayons7]

Come now, all of you!!!  Mine have STILL not arrived, so you are all driving me crazy with anticipation!!! 

[Dr. The Viking]

Now get painting Captain!

Not even your name can bear this amount of hot air.  






(Me: Enthusiastic and impatient)

[Captain Blood]

Suck it up my crazy Viking friend
Plenty more building and hot air to come...

Here's number 10 - a pretty straightforward build this, at the attack, working his bolt, bayonet fixed, helmet at a jaunty angle. What's not to like?





And number 11 - another SAS type, this time in cap comforter. I've given him a commando dagger (of sorts) in his left hand, ready to silence an enemy sentry... The knife comes from (wait for it...) one of the Wars of The Roses sets 
So yes, I have managed to use the two sets together after all.
(I guess I could have used a bayonet, but wanted more of a commando dagger)





Seriously, I am going to get painting on these now, so you may not see any more builds for a few days... On the other hand, if inspiration takes me, you might 

[Silent Invader]

Eleven!

You said you'd start painting after 10.....

...... You toy with us!

 

[essayons7]

Well done Cap'n!!

While we are all waiting for your first painted examples, I wonder:  where will the Perry's take us with their WW2 line?  Strictly North Africa/Med, or do any of you see this line going full bore into multiple nationalities?  Whatever they decide upon is fine with me, mind you! 

[Dr. The Viking]

Mr. Jaunty reminds me of John Wayne! How wrong is that!!! 

[axabrax]

Never really bought the varying height and girth argument as the equipment is usually smaller too, which can't be explained by variations in human anatomy.

The more logical explanation is that the Perrys want the figs out of scale with whats already on the market, so you are more likely to buy their other stuff so everything fits well rather than using your previous collection. Sucks but its smart business.

The figs are too small to mix in with other manufacturers but will be fine on the same table in their own units.

here it comes, the scale creep hysteria 
well, human height is a much debated issue in anthropological sciences, not only in the wargamer community   
for those interested here an intro into the topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#History_of_human_height
with a large reference list at the end, especially this one
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/wwl/koepke%20baten%20two%20millennia.pdf

and just to make a visual statement


so the real question is (because I personally disregard the option that the pros at Renedra made a mistake when downscaling)
Did the Perry brothers want to authentically depict the decrease of human body size due to industialization and overpopulation, or is this simply a "back to the roots" statement on the scale creep in the industry with the 32mm figures having arrived at 1/48 scale and the number of sculptors who work in that direction increasing?

what are Your thoughts?

[Blackwolf]

The chap in the cap comforter looks great! Perfect Battle comics fare You could do an LRDG/SAS chap firing a Bren/ Vickers K from the hip,that would really float my boat

[Painter Jim]

This is very exciting, looking forward to seeing some paint on them.

The size is a sort of disapointment, like you said for those of us who are going blind.   

[Malamute]

Still no paint on 'Em

My favourite has to be the chap with his commando dagger, inspired idea.

 That trip to the Commando Comics exhibition a couple of years ago was worth it 

[Captain Blood]

Still no paint on 'Em

Actually, there is. Just not finished yet 

That trip to the Commando Comics exhibition a couple of years ago was worth it 

True, although the Germans enjoyed it more than we did

[lotsoffigures]

Great-conversions,As-soon-as-I-saw-them-I-thought-of-doing-Sahara,the-film-with-bogard-and-a-group-of-allies-defending-a-well-against-the-Germans,just-need-a-lee/grant-and-various-anzac-indian-french-senagal-heads

[lotsoffigures]

Sorry-about-minus-sign-in-last-post-as-space-bar-key-is-broke!

[Sangennaru]

Sorry-about-minus-sign-in-last-post-as-space-bar-key-is-broke!

you might ctrl+c on a space and use ctrl+v to space! Otherwise it looks like a long link!