Mud-Brick House

I've just spent ages making my own desert buildings in 28mm (pictures to follow) when I spotted this fantastic kit on Model Dads youtube channel. Model Dad's, btw is just about the best, most professional video reviewer going, imho that is! If you've not seen his video's I urge you to do so.
Needless to say I'll be getting at least one of these as soon as they come out.

ACW game

Looking over the Union lines with the Confederates in the distance

Andy and I played a game of Regimental Fire & Fury on Saturday. The scenario was Little Round Top with the Confederates making good progress before we had to finish just as the Confederate attack on the Little Round Top was in the balance. One Union regiment held off the attack despite having taken a lot of losses and being disordered.

The brave 20ME hold off the attack

However, there were plenty more Confederates to push in while the Union had to rush reinforcements around the Top. 

Both of us agree it was a great game.

Afrika Korps

Finished my Afrika Korp Platoon. These are the  Perry Miniatures plastic box set (well two boxes actually, see later). I've organised them for Chain of Command using the latest list published here.
The list is for the Motorised Infantry supporting the 5th Leichte Division and 15th Panzer. As such each squad has two MG34's, which should make life very interesting for the 8th army platoon! The basing makes heavy use of our Kittens cat litter (thanks Puddin).

Afrika Korps Schutzen Platoon

HQ with added assets

The Platoon is composed of three squads and a Leutnant although I have added to the HQ section a 5cm Mortar, a Panzerbuchse 38/39 (Anti Tank rifle) and Forward Observers fort the 81mm mortar battery (the guy with the radio and the guy on the other side with the binoculars).

Squad

Typical Squad (ignore guy sneaking into shot on  left)

Each squad has an Obergefreiter (with SMG) and two teams each with a MG34 and riflemen (one has three the other four).

The Perry box set has the organisation for a Infantry Platoon which should be easy to create by dropping the second MG34 and adding extra riflemen.

Terrain

The terrain is a felt sheet painted with cheap acrylic paint in a sort of random pattern. The oil drum is from the old GW WH40K terrain accessory set.

The extra box

Why did I get an extra box? Well, as well as giving me more options to field for the AK platoon, I think that the figures wearing the early tropical uniforms (with the baggy trousers) will do for AVBCW BUF! I'm not going to use the back packs, obviously.