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Author Topic: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41 updated 01/02  (Read 15477 times)

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #30 on: November 26, 2013, 03:02:53 PM »
Thank you both.
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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2013, 05:28:39 PM »
Thank you both.

Great project scrivs!
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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2013, 06:50:58 PM »

 They look amazing!!!!

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2013, 07:00:31 PM »
Fine painting, love them.
Interesting period to game.
Semper Fi, Mac

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2013, 12:46:02 PM »
Thanks for your continued supportive comments.

The latest addition to the 1941 East Africa Campaign Indian troops is a section of two 3" mortars by Perry Miniatures.



As usual, more images and commentary on the Scrivsland blog

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #35 on: December 02, 2013, 02:01:18 PM »
Scrivtacular!

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #36 on: December 03, 2013, 12:31:36 PM »
Looking great!
Are those mould lines on the arms of the kneeling guys on round bases? Or is it just one of those shoulder thingies I don't know the name of?

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #37 on: December 03, 2013, 01:48:42 PM »
I think it must be the edge of the epaulette. I had not noticed before, I need to check now when I get home.

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2013, 05:39:11 PM »
All the best for the festive season from Scrivsland.

Over the weekend I painted up a couple of pack mules that James Morris gave me, these will serve double duty, both resupplying my Indian troops for the 1941 East Africa campaign and as transport for my El Cid Almohavids.



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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #39 on: January 11, 2014, 03:13:50 PM »
Since the Christmas break I have managed to paint up another box of the Perry Miniatures Desert Rats along with a pair each of 3" Mortars and Vickers machine-guns.



This time, I did quite a bit more conversion work, from simple head swaps and adding small packs to making a sniper team and a Bren team in a sangar.





These Perry Desert Rats are quite addictive, I've now got three boxes of the blighters done and have just purchased a fourth.

I'm pretty happy that it's only the 11th January and I've managed to paint 46 figures already this year.

As usual, more images and commentary on the Scrivsland blog

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #40 on: January 12, 2014, 11:09:19 AM »
Great looking minis you've got there! The skin is maybe a bit off to my taste, but getting darker skin right always seems to be extremely challenging.

I agree with you on the Perry box. I've been trying to resist the urge to buy a bunch of them as they are just looking so good. Been planning to build up a small LRDG force from them. Maybe after I'm done with all the other millions of projects...
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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2014, 12:40:37 PM »
Great work Scrivs!

You have the skin tone spot on as well.  Any tips on painting the skin tones and uniforms?

I have been reading Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1886551.Tobruk

Now I want to buy the Perry boxes and knock up some Australians for North Africa  ;)

Thanks for the inspiration!

Cheers,

Allan
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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #42 on: January 12, 2014, 01:50:44 PM »
Thanks chaps.

As to the skin tone, some love it and some hate it. Now as to getting it right, looking at a sample of dozen of my friends, clients and colleagues from the sub-continent, no two have the same tone, ranging from very dark to very pale. Just like the variation in us Anglo-Saxons.

I use Beige brown as a base for the Indian flesh and then highlight up with different colours in each batch, sometimes Tan Yellow, sometimes Basic Fleshtone, sometimes Pale Flesh, sometimes all three!

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2014, 01:58:55 PM »
Effing brill. Was there any armoured support in this area?

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Re: Perry Desert Rats as 5th Indian Division for Eritrea 41
« Reply #44 on: January 12, 2014, 03:32:00 PM »
They are great, and I've been put to shame because I haven't even finished 1 box of Perries yet - I will be nicking the sangar/kneeling Bren gun conversion as soon as I make them up, though!

Armoured support in East Africa: some Cruisers and Light Tanks (Vickers I believe) in the early stages of the campaign (Gallabat - December 1940), and a handful of Matildas that pushed all the way into Eritrea from the Sudan.  There was a small tank battle during the Battle of Agordat in which a number of Italian M11/39s came off worst against the Matildas.  It's not really on the scale of Alamein, but it does mean that one or two tanks in support of the infantry looks fine on the table.  The terrain also helps to even the odds in terms of gaming - at Gallabat several tanks hit rocks (and also Italian mines) in the elephant grass...

 

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