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.

8th Army

After having a few games of Chain of Command (Western Europe) I could not resist the Perry's 8th Army box set.

Box contents

They went together very easily. Most just need the arms and helmet attaching and the flash was very minimal. As you can see from the above image the box set has enough for a full Platoon. My box also had an extra command sprure so I was able to make three LRDG figures as well.

My basing system is as follows:

• SMG's on hexagonal base
• Rifle on round (2p's)
• LMG large rectangle (two figures)
• Pistol and 'special' on square

I undercoated them with GW foundation yellow (whatever the name is).

And, of course, they need someone to fight so the Afrika Korp box is on its way!

Perry Miniatures

French Napoleonic Infantry with Voltigures out front

Although, I don't have any other 28mm Napoleonic figures I could not resist buying the new Perry hard plastic miniatures. I've only painted up a few of them but like how they came out. I'm thinking of using Two Fat Lardies Sharpe Practice rules when I've a few more finished.

View of bases

I've not used the Perry bases because I want the option to use my figures in a skirmish game. Instead I've glued each figure to a metal washer then made a card base, covered it with magnetic sheet and painted / flocked it. Now I can remove the figures easily.

British Infantry Skirmishing (ie no base)

These are the Perry British Infantry with the extra two riflemen from Wargames Illustrated.

Infantry on base

English Civil War

I also bought a box of the ECW parliament figures and have painted up four pike and four shot (as you can see). All are on washers so I can mount them later.