. A mix of CP and AB models in a German rifle section  Mid war infantry section advancing in a mix of Marsh water camo smocks and splinter pattern zeltbahn  Sdkfz 250 with AB crew - an addition to my Reconaissance force  Panzer Grenedier - armoured patrol  The recon patrol with the dismounted  MG42 team in sustained fire mode  AB riflemen and a CP panzerfaust sutable for Fall of the Reich  The same with an AT mine being used as for attacking a T34. The option for Kursk CP models Panzerknackers with AT greande options for Kursk games  The Xan miniatures 80mm mortar and AB panzerknackers with panzerfausts from AB miniatures  A section in Sumpftarn camo attacking  The whole section with MG support all AB miniatures  In a slit trench the radio  operator and an NCO in camouflage smock all from CP models Heer range   Officer with MP40 and adjutant from CP models Heer range  The Platoon HQ with officers and NCO's...

  Thise platoon built for the Battlegroup lists will be the most flexible It will have sufficient men to represent an early war platoon for the Blitzkrieg or Barbarossa list and Panzerfaust to swap in later in the war for Overlord. I have pictured them here in my Ostfront defences I use with Kursk The 80mm mortar by AB  in a mortar pit  These Greatcoated Panzerfausts are from Early War Miniatures Panzer Grenadier range. I like there camo smocks over there greatcoats and they match well for scale with the AB miniatures in the rest of the platoon. We always play WISIWIG so I can swap these in for sections with Panzerfausts in later war games  An MG34 team one with splinter pattern camo helmet cover. I like the look of men lying down or kneeling  The rest of the section - in Battlegroup the MG team and the rifles act a separate manoeuvre groups with seperate orders   An MG34 in tripod mount as a support weapon for the platoon  A rifle section take th...

sIG 33 auf Panzer 38(t) Ausf.H/K Grille  A very old model in metal form SHQ with a new paint job and a new crew for Italy 43 The Grille with the HQ of my new tropical kit platoon mostly AB Deutche Afrika Korp minatures  So, for the UK lockdown and the plague year I decided to do something I have been thinking about for many years. namely to reorganise and upgrade my German World War 2 infantry. Previously my German infantry where mostly the SHQ miniatures and were bought for the Rapid Fire Lists back in the 90's. SHQ have an excellent range of miniatures but I have found them a little small with my later AB miniatures. So with Eureka Miniatures UK opening up and making the access to the excellent AB World War 2 ranges available. I grit my teeth sold off my three German platoons and replaced them with a mix of AB and CP models. With a scattering of Xan Miniatures (available from Empress now in the UK) , Early War Miniatures and Battlefield/Blitz minis. AB platoon fo...