Der Alte

I've  got these fantastic Plastic soldier Company Sd.Kfz 250's for my birthday (and an other already in my stack). Together with a 1:76 Fujimi 250/10 : a ghastly bad AFV this got me a grand total of 7 250's type Armoured German halftracks. 

Building in proces, added floor

the drivers for 5 of them

Added antenna's and radio's for the 250/3's.
base coat early, mid and late Panzer Company

Sd.Kfz 250/3 "Alte"

The build of this 250/3 was fun. Adding the huge antenna and an internal radio really makes the AFV comes to life (imo). The 250/3 is not one of the versions PSC offers, although after finshing this vehicle there was talk of a conversion kit...

5th command vehicle



The 250/3 in his Early Panzer Company

Sd.Kfz 250/1, 9 & 11 "Alte" Recce Platoon



Recce unit Late 4th Platoon (3rd Company)

Beutepanzer Bren (e)

Some cheap Airfix Brencarriers re-modelled to carry (or support) a platoon of fallschirmjäger.
This was a study object. The Airfix are totally off-scale (1:76), but before i buy myself some PSC carriers i'll see if i can build these.
The Bren carriers are Airfix, stowage PSC and scratch build. Fallschirmjäger are Pegasus. Panzerbüchse 41 is also PSC (left over from their 250/11's Alte).

Small Chaos

Another grab in the endless pitt of forgotten mini's produced the fantastc figs of Citadel Chaos Dwarves.
These are not mine offcourse. Our fellow wargamer Bart left them at my house in his full hope and wisdom. That was some years ago...

Finally finished one.

Them Boys: The Night Boys

These GW orcs were (again) a present for our partner in games; Bjørn. Lying around, doing nothing...
Now, with maybe the last SHA Wargame weekend in Lievelde ever (april 7th) it was time to dig them out of the Lead pile of Shame.

Because of the limited space in the dungeon (where Bjørn will commence his battle) we've split the group into two small units of 5 miniatures.

First up the Night Boys:

These orcs have dark armour hence their name...

Bases made from Styrodor with some dried up brush

Something new.. ah well

Some time ago Bjørn gave me these little tanks. Which appear to be completely useless in our war-game setting, because they can't even dent a T-26 let alone scratch an early T-34.
But still i like them very much. The Heer still fielded a huge amount of these obsolete-to-start-with-tanks in her blitzkrieg up to operation Barbarossa.

The models are: Pz. Befw. I ausf. B First to Fight and the two Pz. Kpfw. I B are S-Models which i got from my friend for painting his T-26 group.
There is some scratch building and PSC stowage. Decals are Dom's Decals 15mm which fit the Pz I's just fine.


These little tanks are part of my 5th Kompanie, 2nd Zug.

stowage

detail of spare tracks stowage

the bucket

Austrian III's

2nd Panzer Division used to have Pz. Kpfw. III's. Here are some late models patrolling the French sunflower fields.
The models are PSC Pz. III M and N. They have stowage from PSC and Academy. Also some scratch build. Decals are from PSC 2nd Pz. Div. The division markings are from 1944-45 so this group must be a 'left over' panzer III Zug.

The tanks represent my 3 Kompanie, 2nd Zug. However the group is not complete (yet).

Pz. Kpfw. III ausf. M No. 322 in summer camouflage.

Pz. Kpfw. III ausf. M No. 325

 

 

And a Pz. Kpfw. III ausf. N in an alternative camouflage. I've seen this one on the camouflage suggestion on the back of an Italeri panzer III kit. I've given it a try. The turret numbers are Italeri.

 

Re-paint 4th Kompanie 1st Zug

Well... that is a strange title. I started painting tanks with some Pz. Kpfw. IV G's from Armourfast a brand who make very cheap and still presentable tanks for wargames.
However as time rolled by i really didn't like the way they looked.... so a re-paint was in order. I started with this fellow: An Armourfast Pz. Kpfw. IV ausf. G, with some scratch-build Schützen and added stowage and decals of PSC's 2nd Panzer Division and turret numbers of Bolt Action.

Again in my favorite winter-camouflage. Added schützen so to create a "H" of which 2nd Pz. Div. had a lot in 1943/44.

Next i added a PSC Pz. Kpfw. ausf. F1 to the 1st Zug. Because every group should have some protection versus dug-in infantry and pill-boxes. This one also with Schützen although it wasn't common. I got the idea from a picture of a Pz. IV ausf. E with them, maybe it was a easy field modification. It looks great on them. This tank wasn't part of the original 1st Zug, but i got one spare of the two boxes (3 tanks each) PSC Pz IV F1, F2, G, H (even J with a sharp knife and some glue) which will make up 4th Kompanie, 2nd Zug.

This one has also the Bolt Action turret numbers and the PSC 2nd. Pz. Div. decals.
It has no spare road-wheels on the left-side instead it got jerrycans.