All,
As always, I go all in, way too far, buy too much stuff, and there's no better example of this (for my particular situation) than having an Italian force for the Western Desert. I don't have any particular desire to play battles with Italians in the desert, I just feel compelled to have them because they were there and I have British and Germans for fighting in North Africa. I did the same thing in 10mm and 15mm and have yet to play a campaign where Italians featured; I think I've played a grand total of one game that involved (a few stands of) Italians, buttressed by Germans, in Tunisia.
But it doesn't matter, I've got them if I need them ;) So here they are; I got a good deal on some Wargames Atlantic Italian infantry, so I started there, then I bought some vehicles off my new buddy Scott on Ebay, then I bought a 3D printed anti-tank gun, then I decided I needed another squad so I bought it painted off Ebay but repainted it, then I decided I needed some light weapons and bought them from Warlord. The Wargames Atlantic guys are nicely sculpted and proportioned, though they are a bit fiddly (compared to most Warlord figures) to put together, while the Warlord weapons figures are one piece models made out of resin, which I hadn't seen before, but they're well done.
As always, I went with a nice, simple paintjob using Contrast paints, which didn't take long at all.
The commander (right) and his senior NCO (left).
A pair tossing grenades.
The machine gun team.
The 3D printed anti-tank gun set, with crew and prime mover.
And the three M13/40 tanks, ready to get thrashed by the Allies.
To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
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So, a pretty cool force, happy to have them, just gotta make it worth it by actually getting them on the table. Hopefully I'll get my Indian platoon (you'll see them soon) blooded soon against these guys.
V/R,
Jack
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