Whitstable Wargamer

With the weather being so persistently hot progress has been slow on the BEF, not helped by a flurry of 15mm building and painting (I may make a post for the Fallscrhimjaeger I have painted, but that is for another day) Regardless I have still managed to finish another 14 figures: the second infantry squad and the light support teams, a 2" Mortar and a Boys Anti Tank Rifle. Here is the figures that make up the first expansion to the force. Again all figures are warlord games metals. Sadly as they only do the one squad of BEF this squad looks similar to the first one I have painted, however the advantage is that they are lovely figures with good detail and depth which make them fun to paint. As said above only having the one set of poses will limit the variety, in a effort to combat this I made sure that each pose has a different head to the one that they had in the first squad. For instance the NCO has a moustached head with a helmet instead of the bare head in the fir...

Since I have not been able to do much wargaming wise in recent weeks, I thought I would share a unit of Shermans that I painted a while back. The tanks are all from Plastic Soldier Company, M4A4s for the 75mm armed ones and an M4A1 for the Firefly respectively. The models themselves went together quite well, the only issue I had was the two piece tracks not fitting together properly. However this is not too noticeable on the vehicles (You can see a small Gap at the front of the tracks on the far right Sherman), so I am not concerned as they are far easier to build than 1/72 scale models. As many allied tanks were covered in stowage during the North West Europe campaign I tried to recreate this using a mixture of stowage pieces from Plastic Soldier and Skytrex. The crew figures on the centre and left tanks are from  Flames of War, the other being the crew figure supplied with the models themselves. The sharp detailing of the models made them very easy to paint, a simple...