25 Pounders, Italians, Sunshine and Beers.
With the start of a long weekend, I took the opportunity to catch up with Al from 20th Century Wargaming at his house for a few hours in the sunshine. Beer was consumed,trash was talked and plans were hatched. A few months ago I grabbed from Spanky some Airfix 25 Pounders and limbers, however I had not the chance to actually pick them up as I was on an Officer exchange to the UK and Dave got posted to the Middle East. Phil stepped up to the plate and gave them a home until Al picked them up a month ago. So today I got my hands on them and they are all in good order. I already have Quads for them and now my British and Commonwealth troops can go into the breech with some solid arty support alongside the 4.5's already in service.
I also went through Al's spares box and picked up a few more French for my WW2 Battalion which will be around three Companies when finally finished. Al also chucked at me a almost complete set of the old ESCI/Italeri Italian Mountain troops. I have probably two other sets of these and am thinking of fielding a Regiment of these in the Eastern Front theater. Nice start to the long weekend, cheers Al!
With the start of a long weekend, I took the opportunity to catch up with Al from 20th Century Wargaming at his house for a few hours in the sunshine. Beer was consumed,trash was talked and plans were hatched. A few months ago I grabbed from Spanky some Airfix 25 Pounders and limbers, however I had not the chance to actually pick them up as I was on an Officer exchange to the UK and Dave got posted to the Middle East. Phil stepped up to the plate and gave them a home until Al picked them up a month ago. So today I got my hands on them and they are all in good order. I already have Quads for them and now my British and Commonwealth troops can go into the breech with some solid arty support alongside the 4.5's already in service.
I also went through Al's spares box and picked up a few more French for my WW2 Battalion which will be around three Companies when finally finished. Al also chucked at me a almost complete set of the old ESCI/Italeri Italian Mountain troops. I have probably two other sets of these and am thinking of fielding a Regiment of these in the Eastern Front theater. Nice start to the long weekend, cheers Al!
The Airfix 25 Pdrs...I had at least 10 sets of these when I was a nipper. Great stuff. The quads..are the window supports all in order? as I read on the ATF that a lot of the sets come with the middle support broken and too short.
ReplyDeletethe alpini covered the nazi retreat from russia
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite WWII units that I must do one day. You can use them in North Africa, Italy, Russia, France. They were the first Italians to change sides and go up against the Germans. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteNice looking haul of 25 pounders.I have plans myself for that skiing italian!
ReplyDeleteHi Paul the Quads I have are the ESCI CMT version and suit my Commonwealth troops better.
ReplyDeleteCheers for the comments, I sometimes think that the Italians get a bad rap overall when there were some units tha fought quite well on the Eastern front as opposed to those troops we Allies fought in North Africa.
Nice Div Arty punch there :)
ReplyDeleteCheers Geordie, just the thing to stonk Jerry with what!
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