French Foreign Legion at Bir Hakeim 1942

Some figures I'm working on at the moment.





They're not the best sculpted figures on the market and the faces are quite scary ;-), but I like the poses. These were painted straight out the box, the next batch I paint will all have head-swaps and probably new weapons. I already substituted the Hotchkiss using one from the Revell French WWI Infantry set.

Mr. Churchill in 20mm ?

Mr. Churchill ?



No prizes for guessing, but I'm pretty sure veteran plastic fans will know where he came from.

Coming soon : WW2 History book with 1/72 scale pictures by Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas, a veteran 20mm gamer and modeler from Oregon (US) told me some time ago that he was working on a history book illustrating scenes and information related to some of the most important battles of WW2 using 1/72 scale models, figures and scenery.

The book should now be finished maybe sometime late this year and he has some sample pictures from his book on the web, some of which can be seen below :

POLAND

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FINLAND

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NORTH AFRICA

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You can read some sample excerpts and see some more pictures from Mark's forthcoming book as posted by veteran 1/72 scale gamer and modeler David Reasoner on the Command Decision Test of Battle Forum on the following links

Chapter 2: Poland, Sept. 1939

Chapter 3: Talvisota, War Within A War

Chapter 4: France, May 1940

Chapter 5: Deutsches AFRIKAKORPS, 1941

Guest Gallery - Japanese Trucks by Dave Hall

Here are a few recognizable Hasegawa trucks, a Starter Toyota GB and a Fuel Isuzu TX-40.

There were pretty simple conversions.  I used Evergreen Scale Models, Sheet Styrene with 2.0mm spacing V-Groove for the truck beds.

The Toyota is the smaller of the two vehicles.  Each could be said to hold a squad of infantry.  The Isuzu's canvas cover is a modified one from a Pegasus American 6 Ton.  I just cut the back end off to fit the length of the bed.  Both are pretty easy kits, but I would probably stick with the Isuzu as a primary truck transport.

For any experts on Japanese trucks, the beds are a little rudimentary in design but there are few pictures out on the internet to work off of and I opted for the wargamer's choice!

Keeping it simple

Cheers!

Dave Hall