Plastic Soldier Company German Infantry

Just a quick post today.

Recently I painted a KGN platoons worth of PSC German figures. I'm not a real fan of plastic 20mm (1/72nd scale) figures, but for the price I thought they were probably worth getting - even if just to bulk out forces centred around metal figures.

Anyway - I was more than just pleasantly surprised. Apart from a couple of chaps with horrid poses (which I simply ignored) I was basically impressed with the figures and some of the poses are excellent.

I also loved the ability with plastic to make some basic conversions such as changing arms or heads.

Moreover they were very easy to paint and I think came up pretty nicely.

The only other thing I think is a bit questionable about the figures is for some reason the gas mask cannister on each chap is wrapped in some kind of blanket or something. I've never seen this on another figure or can remember seeing it in pictures. Well, I'm not expert but this just struck me as being a bit odd.

So here are the pics









Thanks and have fun...

Richard

Armoured Infantry Company - Part 3

The final part...

Last up here are some group shots:













That's all for now - probably a little WW2 next week

Have fun...

Richard

Armoured Infantry Company - Part 2

Part 2 starts to show all of the elements of the Battlegroup as they advance towards the FEBA.

First up a lone Gazlle scouts ahead to make sure the road is clear:


He is closely followed by a pair of Lynx TOW armed helos - hunting bear:


The first of the ground vehicles are two troops of Scimitars operating together:


After the recce troops comes the main force. They are made up of the Company Commander, the 2IC, and two platoons all in Warrior MCVs:





The third Warrior platoon has obviously be tasked off elsewhere!

Closely following the main body are the support troops to this little battlegroup. First up is 1 troop and the platoon command vehicle of the Milan platoon:




They are followed by 1 troop from the mortar section, the mortar platoon command vehicle and the Mortar Foward Control vehicle:




Finally laging behind looking for stragglers are a couple of Landies (sadly not painted by me):


Part 3 to follow tomorrow...

Have fun

Richard

Armoured Infantry Company - Guild Group Build 2012 Task 1 - Part 1

OK - first up an apology as I've actually been painting up a little bit of a storm lately - but have not posted anything for a while. Partly this is because it feel like anytime I post a Work-In-Progress online it is the kiss of death for me managing to complete a project on time! So I wimped out - reported nothing - and basically finished a project!

So this is my Task 1 entry into the Guild Group Build 2012.

As I've shown before I wanted to be able to field two reduced 1980s British Infantry Companys (to begin with anyway). The first is a Mechanised Infantry Company mounted in FV432 and the second is an Armoured Infantry Company - primarily mounted in Warrior MCV, but with their support elements in the vehicles appropiate for the time period.

I already had 2 painted Warriors that I had bought off a friend, along with some finished FV432 from previous work I had done. So to create a reduced company plus some other support assets I needed to complete 8 more Warriors, a FV432M and to convert a couple of the Britannia FV432M mortar teams into slightly more modern looking mortar teams.

Here is the result:

The Warriors












You'll note the lack of decals apart from the very small union jacks - well - I'll be sorting that soonish I hope.

Now the FV432M:






This pic proves I actually made two of these!


Here are the mortar teams on their sabots:


And just for comparison - the original Britannia teams and my very simple conversions:


Tomorrow - the battle group as a whole...

have fun

Richard