"GHQ North Africa German Vehicles" Topic

Here are a few pictures of some GHQ German vehicles I painted for my Afrika Korps a year or two ago.

The Marder IIIs still need some crews.

They look great, neighbor (Las Vegas).
I like desert vehicles a similar color as the land. That's the whole purpose of camouflaging a vehicle.

very nice

Excellent! As always!!

Is that double stripe on the Marder barrel a decal or brushwork? That is impressively small.

- Ix

Interesting to see a recovery vehicle as part of the collection. Does it actually play a role in the tabletop?

Nice work.

Griefbringer: It surely should- especially in the Desert. The recovery folks are much underrated. Without them, the opposing armies would not have been able to keep units reasonably close to strength. The books by Thomas Jentz is really worth the read on this subject. In that environment, it didn't much matter which side it belonged to if it ran! Much documented evidence of Germans using US and British vehicles and visa versa. Stocks of replacements and well stocked major refit and repair facilities were many hundreds (or thousands) of miles away. In a game, give recovered vehicles some additional victory points at the least I would suggest.

Superb!

Very nice! And as noted, in the desert recovery vehicles were very important – look at all that British kit the Afrika Korps rolled on

Thank you all very much! I really appreciate it.

As for recovery vehicles, I think they look cool, have a function in real life, and these by GHQ are great looking models.

You can design scenarios that use recovery vehicles as well as other logistical vehicles such as fuel trucks, supply trucks, and even ambulances.

I created a North Africa scenario once in which the Germans were caught rearming and refueling while the British were launching an attack. Some tanks were ready to roll, others needed more time, so basically the Germans were feeding in ready tanks piecemeal in order to hold off the British.

With some consideration, recovery vehicles can be added to a scenario in a similar way. My friend, Begemot, had a scenario where a broken down Tiger II needed to be recovered to be saved.