East Africa 28mm - Sikh Bren carrier, British tankers

[James Morris]

For the first time in about 3 years, I have no WW2 stuff on my painting table!  I've just managed to clear my last items for East Africa, so will be posting the last pics over the next few days.  Most of these will be headed for Crisis 2014 where Scrivs and I are putting on our Battle of Keren 1941 game, then it'll be back to some medievals (for Lion Rampant) and ancients (for Hail Caesar) so I can have a break from guns and uniforms.

Anyhow, first up is my Sikh Bren gun carrier, to accompany my Perry Sikh platoon.  I wanted to go for a slightly crazy camo scheme on this one - here's a pic from the HMSO 1941 book, 'The Abyssinian Campaigns':



This in turn inspired my paint job (which I suspect is more subdued than the real thing) and my hommage to the original photo:







And lastly, I found some Perry British tank crew at the bottom of the box, so these got a quick paint job as well:



Cheers

James

[archiduque]

Very nice work!!

[moiterei_1984]

Terrific paintjob! That Universal carrier looks greta... haven't seen that camo before.

[James Morris]

Terrific paintjob! That Universal carrier looks greta... haven't seen that camo before.

Thanks!  I reckon that camo scheme was made up on the spot by some creative soldiers...

[Arthur]

 

[warburton]

Nice! and great photos