German Tanks finished ...

Another session and the initial lot of German tanks is finished. Actually more panthers than I planned, but finding them for sale at £2.50 each at a Toy &Train fair was too much temptation.

British Armoured Regiment

Its taken a while but now all the British tanks and support vehicles I plan to have for the amoured regiment have been completed.

Support vehicles and a couple of Stuart light tanks for recce ..

Tank regiment on the move ..

{tanks and vehicles are a mixture of Amorfast/Airfix/Skytrex and die cast items, Sherman ARV is scratchbuilt based on an Airfix kit;

Armoured cars for the Germans

A couple of armoured cars and a 'soft top' finished. I've put the base colours on the rest of my unpainted german tanks, transfers and wethering to do - piccies when completed.

German Forces (current)

The sum total of my german forces,

I have three more tanks to paint, so they will complete the german amour; plus a couple of armoured cars.

Sherman ARV MK1 - conversion

I dabbled with a bit of kit bashing to make a Sherman Mk1 ARV. Below is a shot of the converted Airfix kit, before painting.

All painted and ready for action ...

Shiny new additions ...

A few new items for my British armoured regiment, from Skytrex

• radio lorry
• 2 Stuart light tanks for recon
• Humber scout car
• Cromwell ack-ack tank

Also I have 3 lorries to make up. Under construction is a Sherman ARV, based on a plastic kit.

For the Germans - I have waiting to be assembled: PzIV, Bergepanther, Armoured Car, Whirlwind PzIV; plus acouple of plastic kits.

For Starters ....

Target period for my gaming is western front 1944+; scale 1/72 or 1/76. For tanks I've been collecting up oddments from car boots and toy&train fairs and buying some items from shops and online orders.

I've currently got about 12 shermans which form the basis of a british tank regiment; for the germans I have the following 1 tiger, 2 PzIVs, 1 Elefant.

I've got some Valiant plastic infantry figures to assemble and paint, one box of britsih and one of germans.

Ruleset used will be Rapid Fire. I've had a trial game using Rapid Fire for Rookies; quite an enjoyable game it was too.

I have other wargame interests: 18C, ECW and Dark Ages (saxons/vikings). So progress on this project may be a bit slow.