1940 French Infantry

Long time between posts - but here are some photos of my French Infantry.  The majority of the figures are from Pegasus with some Battlefield Miniatures thrown in.

First up - my Infantry Platoon Command Section

1st Section

2nd Section

3rd Section

And that completes the Infantry Platoon.  Of course the miniatures can be reconfigured to make a variety of French Infantry units - as they all seem to have a range of variations, so you need to make sure you paint enough to take care of any option.

Thanks

Richard

Finishing off a Late War German Panzergrenadier Platoon

Happy New Year!

I'll be attempting to reinvigorate the blog a little this year wiuth some more frequent posting.

First up will be the final figures from the Late WW2 German Panzergrenadier Platoon I started by showing the Platoon Command Team here

I'll post up the rest of the platoon in sections/squads - split into two photos each of a Rifle Team and a Medium Machine Gun Team.

Section 1

 

Section 2

Section 3

So that completes that unit. 

I feel that I can use these guys from Normandy to Berlin, as Panzergrenadiers or Volksgrenadiers - so I'm pretty chuffed with that.

Happy hunting!

Richard

 

British Late War Assorted Infantry

To finish up this little thread of British Late War kit, I have a few infantry I also finished recently.  First up two 3" Mortar Teams - all be AB Figures:

And now a 3 man loader team for the Battlegroup rules - I think the middle and left figures ar AB while the right hand chap is from Wartime:

A PSC medic:

And finally a PSC Sniper:

That's all for now

Thanks

Richard

German Panzergrenadier Platoon Command

Just thought I would post up some recently "completed" German panzergrenadiers I've done to form my new PG platoon's command team - for Battlegroup Overlord and Fall of the Reich.

Not sure what I did to the colour there!

Individual shots:

Thanks for looking

Richard

The Russian horde arrives!

Finally... a post here of some completed work - and I should have a few of those of the next week or so.

I said I would never paint/collect a WW2 Soviet force - not after spending so much time collecting and painting a Cold War Soviet force.  Then one day I came across a platoon box of Zvezda Soviet infantry for about $15 and I was hooked...  So much for my will power.

I decided I'd do a complete company of infantry and attach a few bits and peices to it.  Right now I'm about a third of the way through the project so here they are thus far:

This is a Zvezda 76mm Infantry Gun - with two Zvezda crew and a PSC crewman, seperately based.  After looking at these pics I decided that in the future, I'd place the sperately based figures beside the gun, rather than on the base...

Now I think this is an SHQ 76.2mm Zis-3 (it's metal anyway) with 3 PSC crew.  You always need a bit of AT don't you.

The Zvezda Maxim MG box comes with 2 maxim guns and crews - here is the first one (the only one I've completed to date)

Zvezda 80mm mortar teams with PSC additional crew (the separately based figures)

My first squad - all Zvezda figures from a couple of different boxes

The second squad.  The LMG gunner and loader are PSC and the rest are Zvezda

The third squad.  The NCO and one of the riflemen are PSC and the rest are Zvezda - from a couple of different boxes.

The Platoon Command squad - all Zvezda figures.  I love the officer on the left - very cool figure.

My FO team - both Zvezda - but 1 from the recon box and the officer from the Paratrooper box

Some more AT weaponry - Ivan and his mutt - out for a walk looking for panzers.  Ivan is a Zvezda figure while Fido is an Airfix modern NATO guard dog - slightly modified.

This is the whole lot - typically these 3 photos also show the one figure I forgot to photograph individually - the sniper (who is lying at an angle to the left of the Platoon Command) - and left of Ivan and Fido.

So that's my first lot of Soviets.  It may take a while for the next tranch of them to make it to the top of my painting list, but I plan of completing this project over the course of the year.

Thanks

Richard