Siciliy 1943 (WIP) UD 28/3 adding a Morris CS8 truck in German service

[Helen]

Is that the Valiant Minis plastic trailer that is supposedly 1/72?

That's correct Pete. They are slightly larger than the scale as describe and perfect for Perry miniatures.

Cheers,

Helen

[Helen]

That's really interesting as pencilled-in for later in the project I quite fancied a pair of Kets for something like this....

Is the Ket towing a recoiless?

Cheers,

Helen

[Poiter50]

Thanks, Helen, I might grab a pack while I am OS.

That's correct Pete. They are slightly larger than the scale as describe and perfect for Perry miniatures.

Cheers,

Helen

[Gunner Dunbar]

Brilliant stuff, cant wait for the painted product.

[lou passejaire]

1/72 and 1/56 ... houston we have a problem ...

your stuff is fantastic , don't make a scale mistake 

[Helen]

Thank you. Loads of potential from Valiant miniatures to consider.

Cheers,

Helen

[Helen]

Just to add further info. I received from Mad Bob my Renault UEs as part of the KS. What I was not aware of is that the Germans handed over to the Italians a number of them. Taken from Wiki: "Germany later delivered many UEs to its allies, such as Italy. The Italian army obtained 64 UE and UE2s in 1941 and used them as ammunition carriers. Some were used in Sicily, where in 1943 during the Allied invasion of Sicily several were captured and used by the US Army".

I guess I'll be using one of my UEs for the Italians on Sicily. Blizkrieg Miniatures have shown their latest wip of a French R35.

Cheers,

Helen

[Silent Invader]

EDIT 5th March 2019

This project had comprised two threads, which were merged from this point


Bit of background : this is a long and slow-running project, started in 2013, stalled, restarted in 2015, stalled again, but with recent posts by Helen, Captain Blood and others having provided the necessary inspiration, I’m motivated to start again.

It’s a skirmish project setting airborne against airborne with scratch forces of Paras, Glider Pilots and Airlanding for the Brits versus Hermann Göring Panzer Grenadiers and Fallschirmjäger for the Germans.

To get going I’ve sketched out a pillbox and Tobruk Pit combination, which will give me an objective to battle around and over. I haven’t seen any images of Tobruk Pits in Sicily (most structures seem to have been domed) but that and the trench should make the games a bit more interesting. Thoughts are always appreciated.

By way of a reprise, I’ve also attached images of some of the figures that are so desperately calling for paint.  For what it’s worth, I’m not sure that I’ll be putting any figures in smocks on the basis that it was so hot. 

Thanks for looking. 

[moiterei_1984]

Looks promising SI!
Just a question, where did you get all the helmets and other Para stuff from?

[OSHIROmodels]

Build, build, build 

[Jeff965]

Woo hoo, looking forward to this.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all 

Just a question, where did you get all the helmets and other Para stuff from?

They’re my own sculpts and white metal  casts from way back in 2013 (the mini - a GPR Pilot- was still WIP in the following images):

[Captain Blood]

Great to see you’re back on this Steve. Another super creative project. Love the look of the strongpoint. Can’t wait to see that in creation 

[Helen]

Looking forward in reading more of your project.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice.