On the workbench WW2 German Infantry project Infantry Platoon in Camouflage

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 many have Russian weapons

An addition to Recce support - Fusilier foot patrol

These Fusilier foot patrol is a mix of AB and CP models

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on the workbench Fields and Gardens

Time to improve terrain. Fields and gardens on an old piece of hardboard. Corrugated paper then textured and spray painted. Plants from scatter static grass on lines of PVA. Grass tuft in rows and green paint soaked sponge and pieces of clump foliage. Fences a mix of plant ties and bamboo skewers for the hurdles and garden thyme stripped of leaves to be the brush in the brushwood fences. a mixture of open field and fenced gardens house at the cetre of a fenced gardens and crop fileds Patchwork of fields - the irrigation ditch is scratch built from acrylic sheets Vines in a ploughed field - vines scratch built from pipe cleaners Patchwork of gardens the pigsty is bought from Hovels yonks ago Brush wood fence some scattered static grass used for young crops Ploughed field with orchard trees A series of the fields to make a patchwork close to a village ploughed field with shredded sponge cabbages A mix of lants made of clump folia...

on the workbench Sd Kfz164 Nashorn

Captured Nashorn Italy 1944 Model by Alkett Crew by AB miniatures Infantry support from Xan Miniatures Afrika Korp camo net scratch built from surgical gauze and stowage from Early War Miniatures Inspired by a Nashorn from schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 525 captured in the Liri Valley

Attack/ Counterattack near El Hamma 1943

Attack/Counterattack near El Hamma 27th March 1943 German Forces from 15th Panzer Division 1 Platoon Panzer III kurtz (short) 1 Platoon Px III lang (long) 1 Platoon Pz II 1 Panzer IV F2 1 Marder 1 supply truck 1 timed Stuka strike 1 FAC in Sdkfz 250 British Forces from 2nd Armoured Brigade Forward HQ in Grant Mk1 gun tank 2x Sherman tank squadron consisting of 3 Sherman III tanks 1 carrier section from 1 The Rifle Brigade consisting of 3 carriers with 1 Bren team 1 2" mortr team and 1 Vickers MG team FAO in Daimler Dingo FAC in Humber Scot car Radio link in M5 halftrack 1 battery of 25 pounders (off table) Battle We used the attack/ counter attack from the rulebook to represent this typical encounter as the 1st Armoured disision supported by 2nd New Zealand division fought towards Gabes on the Tunisian coast after breaking through the Tebaga Gap. The 15th Panzer Division fought despearately to allow Generel Messe to evacuate hs forces from the Maret...

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