Saturday, December 31, 2011

A Coy 2nd Bn 3rd NZ Div 1942

 I have been working on these over the last week or so, and with a donation of Airfix WW1 American's from Al I have manged to field a Battalion. Able to use for Home Defence Forces or 1940-43 in the Med and Greece, Crete.
 A Coy Command Stand, with two Matchbox conversions. Helmet replaced on the charging figure with a lemon squeezer (or as the US call them campaign cap) while the Officer to the rear from the British Infantry set has head swap with forage cap from Airfix Luftwaffe set and a arm and weapon replacement.
 Simple lemon squeezer hat swap. Some figures in Battle Dress, while some are in KD summer uniform. This is quite a common thing, and if you look at pictures from Greece and Crete it crops up all the time.
 No conversions here, simple Matchbox 8th Army and British Infantry.
 Rear shot of the Command Stand.
And another rear shot of a Platoon showing the lemon squeezer.

Model on into the New Year dudes.
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10 comments:

  1. Nicely done. Glad to see you getting stuff ready for the Greek campaign. There were some interesting actions during the German invasion, even without including the Battle of Crete. HaT has some Romanians that can pass of as Greeks. You are quite right about the dress of the ANZAC troops. I've seen plenty of photos of the evacuation of Crete, where you see them in all sorts of outfits. Model on indeed.

    Dimitri

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  3. Hi Dimitri, yes that's the plan. Al and I are keen to game some ANZAC action in Greece and Crete is always bound to pop up.

    My idea is always to show how disraggled the Kiwi's and Aussies are.

    Nice tidy Uniforms are kept for my Gentlemanly Brits.

    Regards Paul

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  4. Thanks Thomas. They are a bunch of pirates really mate. Vagabonds every one of them.

    Cheers Paul

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  5. Your beautiful work just keeps on coming out! Have a great night tonight and a fun gaming year for 2012.

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  6. Stop it Rodger I am blushing! Simple paintwork and coversions for gaming.

    Hope you have a good un too.

    Regards Paul

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  7. Beautiful work.
    Happy new year.
    Regards Lonewolf

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  8. Nice work Paul. Enjoyed your posts this year and look forward to more in 2012.

    All the best,
    Steve

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  9. Thanks lone wolf, some nice work on your site and I will link you up later.

    Regards Paul

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  10. Cheers Steve, all the best to you as well. I cannot wait to see some more progress on your loft.

    It looks a great project and space.

    Regards Paul

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