Inspired by the newly working 3D printer I've carried on producing a few models for Gabr-el-Ahmar, 1940.
Two battalions of M11/39 medium tanks appeared in my last post but here's a slightly more close up view of a few of them.
I've also done some L3/35 tankettes.
Stretched sprue of various thicknesses gave me the wheels, gun barrels and trails while the gunshields were fashioned from thick paper. I'll add some crew figures when my order from H&R arrives.
The scenario calls for A Squadron, 11th Hussars in the form of two troops of Rolls Royce and one of Morris armoured cars. These were my first attempt at the Caunter camouflage scheme. I used Vallejo Dark Sand as the base with overlaid patterns of Basalt Grey and Pastel Green.
Finally (for now) I delved through the bits box and managed to find an old Irregular Miniatures Bren Carrier and some Heroics and Ros British infantry. Together I think they make a reasonable KRRC carrier platoon. I'm quite pleased with the way they remind me of the work, in 20mm scale, of the late John Sandars, one of my earliest wargaming inspirations.
4 comments:
Did anyone ever figure out how to play the Sandskrieg rules? I must have had that book out of Birkenhead library a dozen times and couldn't fathom them. Although I really liked the JockForce battlegroup.
Very nice. I'm afraid I copped out and just did all my 6mm early desert stuff using H&R, but it is very satisfying doing conversions. I think John Sanders inspired lots of people our age. I don't know how he had the patience to build all that wheeled transport.
I too had the John Sandars Introduction to Wargaming book out of my local library (in my case West Kirby).
Were the rules later published in one of the wargames magazines? ISTR they put rather more emphasis on logistics than most systems of the time.
Yeah, a wise man (I think he may have been called Mr Rapier) once said, "You can never have too many trucks" but if you have to build them out of balsa wood I think that maybe you can....
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