All,
First, an admin note. I've completed all my painting, the daughter is about set to head off to college, and the little league baseball season has ended, so I'm all set to start playing games again. But then I noticed that I still have a whole bunch of 28mm forces to post, so stand by to be spammed, I'm about to kick it into overdrive so that I can get all these posts caught up.
Greetings, glad you're here! You've seen my British 8th Army and my Brits for Sicily and Italy, so come on in and take a look at my British infantry for late war, Northwest Europe. I say British, but you'd better believe I'll happily pretend they're Canadians as well; you have no idea how much I want to get into the battles around Caen! And there's a few more models in here, just in case, will explain later. In any case, I bought one of Warlord's Army boxes and got enough troops for a rifle platoon plus a 6-pdr Anti-Tank Gun, a Vickers MG team, and a 3" mortar team. I also have an engineer team, and they're from Warlord, but I think I had to buy them separately.
The Platoon Sergeant (left, with Sten slung, reading the map for the platoon leader), and the Leftenant, practicing his jazz hands while wielding his Webley.
A lovely shot of the 2" mortar team; love the pose. It's probably more realistic to have the gunner in the prone, but I like the kneeling position much better.
The PIAT team hustling forward. I like the pose, but would still have preferred a firing option, but not possible in this set.
The Corporal section leaders, looking good with Stens at the ready.
And the vaunted Bren. Again, I like the pose, but prone firing is the classic standard that I'm missing.
To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
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So there you go, enough guys to allow me to do a British rifle platoon from the beginning of the war to the end (or at least Market Garden). More to follow!
V/R,
Jack
finds a personal connection to WWII.
