Sold: Burma 1945 collection

Burma 1945 collection: £1250.00

Sold 

Since we moved back to the UK and downsized, I want to move on some of the stuff that I'm just not playing with anymore.

I had a blast researching and painting this collection, but being honest with myself I've used these troops and terrain once in the past ten years so they can go to someone who can give them the use they deserve.

So, what do you get for £1250.00:

• Over 200 infantry, enough for two platoons of 14th Army British, one Platoon of 14th Army Gurkhas and two Platoons of Japanese plus plenty of support options. All magnetized and supplied in three magnetic receptive 4L Really useful boxes.
• Three armoured vehicle: A Sherman V of Probyns horse, a Universal Carrier and a Chi-Ha
• Four scratch built buildings, a pair of log bunkers and about 24" of entrenchments.
• Terrain pieces, a well, a Burmese toilet and some objective markers plus a 9L Really Useful box of jungle terrain (some of which you can see in the photos).

Most of the figures are from The Assault Group, but there are a few from Warlord Games, Artizan Designs and Too Fat Lardies.

Posted in the UK for £20.00, or collect from Ruddington, Nottinghamshire.

Some more images:

I'd suggest reading Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser, it was my inspiration for this project!

If you search the Battle of Meiktila on the Scrivsland blog, you'll find many of the painting and gaming articles I wrote when creating this force.

A couple of dirty Panzers and some recon

Just a small submission this time, I'm working towards a larger unit of 28mm figures that are due to be finished in time for next weeks post, but to maintain my cadence of at least one post a week I've added a few more vehicles to the 12mm-ish WWII collection for O Group.

A pair of Panzer IVH and a pair of SdKfz 222 join the German forces for my late WWII games. 

All the models are from Pendraken and are nominally10mm but size well with the Victrix 12mm figures in my collection.

I've painted them in a dirty three colour scheme, the decals are from I-94 Enterprises after these were dried I added more muck and grime with a Tamiya weathering master kit. 

 

12mm WWII German limbers and AA guns for O Group

 

I've had a busy week, but decided to pull out the stops and add some more bits to the 12mm WWII collection that I started last year and recently added more US supports to.

Even in the later stages of the war, much of the German army was relying on horse drawn transports, so I decided that my German units for O Group would be relying on horse-drawn limbers for their supports rather than motor vehicles. I added four to my most recent order from Pendraken.

The horses were painted with Citadel Contrast paints, I think they work well for horse flesh at this scale, while the limbers themselves and the crews were done in Vallejo Model Colour with an Army Painter wash.

I also painted a pair of 2cm FlaK38 for close air defence of the forces. I wish that Pendraken did some additional crew packs, all these guns look rather sparse with only two crewmen.

I've only ever played one game of O Group, I really should try to get some more in!

WWII Tirailleurs Sénégalais (4)

 

Back in 2019 Crusader Miniatures released some Senegalese troops to their WWII French range and I placed a pre-order on Northstar and picked up at Partizan during a trip to the UK. 

These were bought back to Wisconsin and I painted a platoon plus some supports for our Chain of Command games. The initial troops are posted over on Scrivsland and here and here. Fortunately the first blog post contained my recipe so I was off to a good start with the colours I used on these.

I've played a few games with them, but although I painted enough infantry for the platoon, there never seemed to be quite enough infantry for flexibility in my forces, so, when Victoria asked if I had any ideas for Christmas presents, I let her know that Badger Games were carrying the range and a couple more packs would be great.

As always the Crusader Miniatures stuff is a delight to paint.

Some close ups showing these great sculpts.