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On the workbench Nebelwerfer 41

Alway wanted one of these Nebelwerfer 41 from Empress miniatures and crew from AB. Painted for Italy '43. I have various tows but the Opal truck seems appropriate. The motorcycle and sidecar is AB and used as Recce outfit in '43. 

AAR Stalingrad 42

  Our epic Stalingrad game. I was grateful to be invited to take part in this epic Stalingrad battlegroip game with Warwick Kinrade and Andy Fox who supplied the fantastic terrain.  The german advance begins Soviet forward position can be seem in the building but there are alot of troops hidden or moving through tunnels across the board.  STuG Assault guns lead the German advance This large  church would become a blood bath changing hands several times This block of industrial housing the factory and railyard was the focus of my Naval infantry company. The rail yard of yhis factory was the scenes of more bloody fighting. The red flag is hoist after the final German withdrawal.  T34 roam the streets - blocked here by a German road block improvised from a tram. Soviet infantry emerge from a hidden basement to overwhelm the German HQ and aid station in the administrative district. The aid station overwhelmed the Opal ambulance is destroyed.  The German HQ before they fled A Panzer II take

On the workbench - Elephant transports column for Type 98 320mm mortar Burma '44

The Mardav 3d printed 320mm  mortar set up and crew. The piled rifles is a nice touch.  Another angle. The the base is built in in this option of the mortar. The crew painted separately and  added afterwards. A transport elephant with improvised mortar rounds and asorteded stowage from EWM. The elephant is by HAT industries. A pack saddle scratch built by using match sticks and miniature carpentry.  T his is the uploaded elephant tow. The harness was scratch built out of waxed thread and some chain from model railway supplier. T he mortar under tow. I didn't want to cut off the mortarxshell so decided it was just rushed into position and added a couple of spare crew. Attached chains to the mortar and a wooden sledge from matchsticks. Elephants and mahout from HaT with some chain and rope harness for the elephants added. The Japanese artillery men from Mardav  miniatures.