I wanted to do this for a long time. I already have plenty of early and late German WW2 infantry but none for the mid-war, that is German figures in full field gray uniform and tall boots. They are necessary for some of the projects on the way, Crete (were they will be Gebirgsjäger, the same uniform with a different patch on the shoulder); Greece and the Balkans; Dieppe and the first two years of Barbarossa. The rifle+MP40 and the battalion command figures are all Matchbox in this regiment. For the future I may add a second regiment made mostly of Esci (IR Graf Von Esci) figures and a third of Airfix copies (IR Graf Von AirfixCopies :).
The full regiment of three infantry battalions.
Each battalion has rifle and command stands made of Matchbox old but lovely figures, Esci 50mm mortar and LMGs; AB copies MMGs, and Zvezda 81mm mortar.
Each of the Zvezda 81mm stands has a Matchbox figure. The 50mm mortar is made of EverGreen plastic and the figures are Esci conversions.
The engineer company is made from a box of Zvezda and Esci figures. The Zvezda box brings a sprue of game pieces including the barbed wire which is here being cut by the figure to the right.
These Zvezda small sets are meant for the command of three different regiments and can be used at any of the periods of the war (the coated ones are not proper for Lybia...) .
The AB resin copies were ordered from Aliexpress. Back in 2016 I remember this being criticized as piracy but today I hope that AB has received some sort of compensation or reached a deal. The figures themselves are quite good and it looks they didn´t lost much in relation to the originals.
Besides the 50mm mortar only the Radioman had a scratchbuilt radio...
...and some plastic pieces for the absent bipod of the Esci LMGs.
Next: the beggining of the Slovak fast division for Lipovec 1941.
Your third btn should be Graf von Luftfix....
ReplyDeleteThose AB Chinese copies are still pirated; neither AB nor Tony Barton receives any money for them....
Neil
Lutfix will be! That AB thing is a shame. I was hoping it was settled.
DeleteVery nice mate, I have a whole box of these - a mix or Matchbox, Esci & Airfix which were my original field Germans before I was flush and slowly replaced them with metals.
ReplyDeleteI like to toy with these cheap Germans in plastic. I´ve done battalions of early, late, SS, luftwaffe infantry, DAK, etc, etc. It would be impossible with metals.
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