"DAK questions...." Topic
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| chrach7 | 15 Nov 2014 4:24 p.m. PST |
I have some generic early war heer infantry lying around- if I paint them in DAK colors, would there be any inconsistencies in the uniform? Also, did the DAK use many hannomags in north africa, or primarily just trucks? |
| Paul B | 15 Nov 2014 4:51 p.m. PST |
Are they wearing jackboots? |
| chrach7 | 15 Nov 2014 4:53 p.m. PST |
Not sure- should they not be wearing them for DAK? |
| Rrobbyrobot | 15 Nov 2014 5:06 p.m. PST |
DAK shouldn't be wearing jackboots. But you didn't say what scale your troops are. So, if they're 15mm you shouldn't have a problem. If they're 28s some might complain.
As for Hanomags. SDKFZ 250s and 251s were both used in North Africa. At the start of the campaign 15th Pz. Div. had one company of Pz. Gdrs. in halftracks. While 5th Lt. Div. had a total of 10 halftracks in each of it's two MG Battalions. These were their main infantry units. |
| McWong73 | 15 Nov 2014 6:22 p.m. PST |
They would work for the fighting in Tunisia, but not for much pre El Alamein. But yeah, 15mm no one can notice casually. |
| Martin Rapier | 16 Nov 2014 12:48 a.m. PST |
As above, the main issue is the boots. Maybe a spot of filing or filling? Or a very heavy coat of paint! DAK hardly used any armoured halftracks at all, they mostly rode trucks. Plenty of halftracks prime movers though. |
| olicana | 16 Nov 2014 9:41 a.m. PST |
According to F. Chadwick: In late 41 15th Panzer had a company of engineers from 33rd pioneer btn. in Sd251s. The infantry of 115th rifle regt. were in trucks. 200th rifle regt. was an adhoc formation of 15th motorcycle btn and 2nd MG btn which had one platoon in each MG company in sd251s. 21st Panzer only had sd251s (as per 2nd MG Btn above) with 8th MG battalion. all the other infantry of 104th regt. rode in trucks. Afrika Division ZBV had no sd251s. |
| christot | 16 Nov 2014 2:12 p.m. PST |
As far as I have been able to ascertain from digging around in books, the exhausting world of German-centric forums etc, there are no photographs of any 250/251's in the basic role of transporting infantry sections, every photograpic record is that of specialist transportation. Mostly command, artillery or communications vehicles. The paper and transport toes suggest that there was a few platoons in half tracks, but there is still doubt over this….which is a shame really…because if there were lots of half track infantry in the desert you could stuff the jackbooted figures in there as crews and nobody would be any the wiser….. |
| number4 | 16 Nov 2014 6:18 p.m. PST |
In 15mm you can paint the boots as composite canvas and leather boots that were issues with the early tropical uniform link
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