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ianrs54 wrote: ↑

27 Mar 2020, 07:21

Do you mean BTR-80's ? Will.

yes, corrected

A slight diversion from my current plans, I was distracted by these M35 trucks made by 4D I found them on ebay and acquired three for less than a tenner including postage. Nice simple kits, which are good enough for wargames usage and not as useless as the original kits made by another company calle...

NTM wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2020, 07:24

Thought Valentines were used for that.

Did the Badger not see some service with the Canadians?

Yup, just misremembered

ianrs54 wrote: ↑

18 Mar 2020, 08:48

Used for training in the UK, then converted (some) into Kangaroos or RAM OP, the only types which saw action.

IanS

Weren't some used as command tanks with the Archers?

A nice contrast to my Germans and British for the same era. These are all Strelets figures https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ppzLvTa81tU/Xm9o58NKNQI/AAAAAAAAYpk/K_y6_HfxPWgmmSJ8-wt0DsRq2lP1azEzACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/DSC08285.JPG The infantry are all in summer uniform, organised in a platoon of 41 men, 2 sections...

Lovely terrain guys. Its tempting just to come and see it at Crisis Point. (Remind me when and where is this? Assuming there is space for visitors?) Is the railway track your own construction using model railway tracks or a resin casting you have used as base material? Its something I have been pla...

Myself, Andy and Richard ran a German raid on Andrevia game at WMMS on Sunday. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Oyo4W_1Ns/XmYzaKIZGTI/AAAAAAAAYms/RLmWZNdQ23co7o3B9yYCXLK5bdcy9eQxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/2019%2BWMMS%2B01.JPG I've include Richards pictures on my blog, together with pictures of other games at the ...

I followed Gary's advice and looked for the cheapest offers for those BTR kits on e-Bay. The seller I found has them for £2-75 each if you buy 4 or more, and also has: M3 half-track (with some rather crude toy soldiers that look like Airfix copies) Humvee with ToW Opel Blitz Pak 40 1938 M30 Russian...

Keep up the output Richard

What originally started out as just reorganising my German infantry into a couple of platoons ended with the rest of the army rebased (except a few bits already done). Thanks to Andy for the extra figures needed. The complete army (except an infantry gun) https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-F8H6ZbIz4/Xk6gV...