Andi is an old, old friend, back from the days of DBM, so 1990s!
Armoured car regiment for the British.
HQ
Top view
1st Squadron
Each squadron has a Staghound, an infantry platoon, two daimler scout cars, two daimler armoured cars.
2nd Squadron
3rd Squadron
Ready to move
4th Squadron
Need to swap that humber for the spare Daimler 9and now I have)!
Top view
They might have gone a bit Busby Berkley on their deployment!
Step two three
The whole regiment
He asked me to paint his airborne division for him, thankfully one brigade had already been done, but there are still plenty to do, and an armoured division, and an infantry division too.
Front view, four companies of three platoons and five stands of HQ assets.
Top view
Side view
Back view
Two more battalions to go, once Leon sends me their bases!
Transport for the infantry stands, they will receive labels when the company I buy paper fron comes back of holidays. (Clem asked for these to be separate, makes sens as they were a central resource, not attched by battalion)
Suspect at least one of the other battalions will be in trucks rather than M3s!
The whole battalion
Some support, but not much
Top down
Battalion support assets and HQ
Suppose they have four regiments of armour to help out if they get into trouble!
'A' Company
Three stands of infantry (they are there, honest) with an M3 half-track and a stand of carriers make each company.
'B' Company
4/7th of each stand are prone, just to annoy people
Back view
'C' Company
It's like they've found a hedgeline to defend
They might kill 1 tigger between them?
Transfers are via Pendraken of course
By squadron, got to love the insanity of a Challanger!
I did enjoy painting these
And a bizarre amount of satisfaction to see them done, as they have been on my desk since February
Armoured reconnaisance regiment (only difference is they do not have Challengers)
Top down
Quite like this shot
For some people, this would be enough...
but there is a lot of infantry and supports elements to come
Brigade HQ
Pretty sure in real life they would be in a chateaux behind the lines
Possibly made their tanks too dirty, would his nibs get it that dusty?
Divisional command (in his armoured command vehicle)
Pretty sure the 'defense' tank would get stripped for parts after a week or two!
Still, a lot of fun to paint!
Command figures was a must
All fits into an A4 box with room for an infantry battalion (on the painting table now)
3rd Airlanding Battalion is complete, which finishes my mates Airborne
Division for Spearhead.
I hope he does not deploy like this!
Top down
C&D companies
Advancing
Top view
A & B Companies
It's amazing what you can get done in half-term while watching the Superb Owl Super Bowl!
On patrol
Cover, what cover?
Battalion HMGs
Much dakka
3" mortars
6lber stand
Blastwave must have distorted the shot...
Pioneers
Recee SMGs
Accidental helmet camo on the furthest figure!
HQ and rifle stand
Spare stand, so I painted it as security section (inc some in ahistoric Int Corps berets, sorry)
Top view
A. B, C & D Companies
Top view
A & B close up
Side view
C & D Companies
Side view
HQ and support stands
Top view
Pioneer stand worked well
1st Airlanding battalion done now.
HQ elements. 
Face on.
Top view
A, B, C & D companies
Must order some extra bases...
Decent formation, now there's two more the same size to do.
The whole formation, it's quite big I suppose.
24 bases, in Spearhead, of decent foot.
Brigade HQ elements, because I could.
Pointy bloke is in charge...
With the Glider Piolt regiment in their tray. 
2nd Para done.
HQ
3rd Para
Top view
Recon
HQ
Support weapons
Stand close up
Divisional HQ Recon (Beige berets as these are meant to be SAS) 
Top view
Their HQ
Armed and dangerous glider pilots
Tetrach Mk VII light tanks (airmobile but awful) I insisted Andi has these for D-Day, after which they get replaced with Stuarts!
The paras and HQ in their box
Glider regfiments and their gliders.
That finsihes the paratroopers, just need to do the airmobile briage now.
Armoured Division begun!
The air recognition transfers arrived, also each squadron have their symbols on turret sides too (honest, you might not be able to see them, but they are there!).
1st Armoured Regiment, a mixture of Cromwells and Challengers, with Crusader AA and M3 Stuarts in the HQ
Not a bad selection
Top view
2nd Regiment ready to go.
They've come out well
And armoured recon for the paras M5 Stuarts and Shermans (They should really be a mix of Cromwells and the mad Tetrach tanks, yes, an air portable British tank! Hopefully, those are on order), but after D-Day they quicky swapped for Stuarts.
After a short break (I ran out of ther correct sized bases), a few more regiments are on the way (when my recognition star transfers appear), so in the meantime, here is a regiment of pack howitzers to support the Paratroopers.
The pack howitzers really are small! 
Teeny-tiny guns to support teeny-tiny paratroopers! Not sure how effective they are in Spearhead, but they are cool!
They do make a nice diorama though.
View from above showing ID labels.
Anyone would think he was heading to Arnheim!
1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade now done.
Nine infantry stands, two mortars, a recce stand, HMG, Pioneers and HQ stands
Quite pleased the way this came out.
Top view of the battalion.
Front view, 6mm is tiny!
So, the heavy lifting had better get underway!
Horsa gliders, all freehand painted.
Just remember, in the words of Howard Taylor's 'Schlock Mercanary' :-
Great stuff Will, I might have to look into getting a lightbox, it's certainly made a difference to your photos.
ReplyDeleteFantastic 👍 Is there a club Lichfield way as I'm in Stone and am a keen 6mm WW2 and Cold War gamer?
ReplyDeleteHi there,
DeleteSimon Clarke is your man locally, He has forwarded three local clubs you might enjoy.
"Hi, there are several clubs around the area. So, depending what you like. Three Spire meets every friday, and has ~30 attendees each week. Mostly GW type games, https://www.facebook.com/ThreeSpiresGaming/?locale=en_GB
Lichfield gamers is more boardgames and RPG https://www.facebook.com/groups/lichfieldgamers/?locale=en_GB
And Burton and District
Old fogey historicals up the road https://badwargamers.com/bad/
"
Hope that helps.
Many thanks
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