Achtung Sniper!

A 1st Parachute Brigade sniper and his spotter take position...

"Jerry didn't see that coming!" Sergeants Harry Miller and Tom 'Ginger' McCoy on the hunt for German patrols.



Figures are from the Bolt Action British Airborne range.

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.

Germans on Patrol.

Been slowly working on one or two German Heer for a while (in between Vikings and WW1 Russians) to add to the small bunch of 'Jerries' for our WW2 project. Here is Hauptmann Klaus Degl leading a group of men on a patrol of a ruined farmhouse...

Hauptmann Degl sends forward Gefreiter Ochs under the cover of Unterfeldwebel Schirlitz.

Degl leads his men to check the other side of the ruined building.

The Hauptmann and his men secure the perimiter. To the right, Oberfähnrich Stahl surveys the area ahead with his sniper, Obergefreiter Dennhardt, in tow...

Figures from Artizan, West Wind, Crusader and Bolt Action.