French Resistance II.

At last, M. Bertin Vaux and Marc-Jean Ferrand are joined in their struggle against the Nazis by some new recruits to the cause. M. Vaux is not entirely happy to see his daughter Yvette has also joined them but at least she knows how to handle a Sten!

M. Bertin Vaux and his valiant fighters move out...

"Vive le France!!"


Figures are from Artizan and Foundry.

Fallschirmjäger II.

9th April, 1940. A small unit of Fallschirmjäger under the command of Leutnant Dreher, soon after landing as part of Operation Weserübung in Denmark.

Leutnant Dreher and his squad just outside Aalborg Air Base.

The squad MG34 sets up.

Dropped far from the others, Jager Schmidt runs to rejoin the squad!

2nd unit, again painted as early war Fallschirmjäger.

Figures are all Wargames Foundry. Sorry the photos are a bit blurred!



Wargames Foundry Kubelwagen.

Got around to putting together my Kubelwagen from the apparently diminishing Wargames Foundry WW2 28mm range. It seems this is no longer available from them. Shame as I have a soft spot for the Foundry range - they tend to come up a bit smaller than some other makes like Crusader Miniatures, Artizan or Black Tree but they have some great sculpts with plenty of character. I am fortunate enough to have nearly 40 each of the German Infantry and British Commandos and my brother in law Jim is kindly painting about 20 more fallschirmjager for me. I may have to treat myself to the 'England Invaded' collection. Who can't love the 'Home Guard Heroes' or 'Downed German Air Crew' sets!

Back to what I do have...I can't currently decide whether to have the kubelwagen with or without its driver and passengers? One of my gaming buddies suggested I should have three - one with, one without and one destroyed/wrecked! Perhaps later Rob...for now I have a fair amount of wehrmacht troops to get sorted first!

A couple of (badly lit) pictures below with some minor progress...

Nearly finished / just started German infantry and kubelwagen without driver etc.

Kubelwagen with driver and passengers.

Figures shown from left to right are Wargames Foundry, Artizan 'Heer' and Artizan 'late war' Germans.

Germans on Patrol II.

Here is my second batch of painted German Wehrmacht. To be honest they are not all complete (some of them look like they are walking across a sandy beach at the moment) and I need to add a couple more men with an MG34 and ammo to complete a squad but I couldn't resist posting an update!

A squad under the command of Leutnant Adler set up a defensive position in a ruined farmhouse...

Adler postions his MG42 team.

Feldwebel Trommler sets up his mortar team for best effect.

Obergefreiter Mauer leads his rifle section to the perimeter of the farmhouse.

A 'birds eye' view of the defensive position.

Meanwhile, Sturmscharfuhrer Ritter and his spotter Unterscharfuhrer Hahn take up a vantage point in the tree-line.

Finally, satisfied that the objective is secure, Leutnant Adler and Obergefreiter Mauer move the squad to a secondary position...

Figures are a mix from West Wind, Wargames Foundry, Bolt Action and Black Tree Design.

Buildings.

Just got these is the post today from Dark House Games! They are a very simple construction, kind of 'click & snap' and require little or no work - they are a bit flimsy without a dab of glue. They are very plain (two colour plastic) and need a paint job but to be honest you could probably use them as is. I picked up these two to check them out and I must say I am pretty happy with them. They are ideal for most modern periods and a reasonable scale to match 28mm miniatures. I picked them up with a modern zombie project in mind but think they can easily fit into WWII.

'Hanger' and 'Cathedral'.

Close up of the 'Cathedral' - makes a very nice small church.

The 'Hanger'. Leutnant Dreher and Jäger Krause secure the perimeter...

There is quite a selection of these and the prices are very reasonable for what is in effect an immediately useable building.

Fallschirmjäger!

First eight Fallschirmjäger painted by Jim Allen -

All figures from the Wargames Foundry range.