Monday 2 September 2019

Rapid Fire! France 1940 in 20mm - The last Lafflys S20 of the DLM (part 2)


The RDP of a DLM meets at Point Trianglaire not far from all other places I keep on mentioning, in fact, always the same yard!

As I told you in the last post these are the last 14 Lafflys for a full Regiment de Dragons Portés (RDP). Everything is Minigeneral or based on the Minigeneral Laffly S20 TL. I used the Green/Sand camouflage on one of the battalions as it was the oldest type. The Green/Brown camouflage was used already after 1939 and the vehicles produced during the war apparently left the factory in these colours.


This Laffly was converted into the PC version. I added an MT trailer to give both radio and telephone capabilities to the unit to which is attached. This trailer was converted from the Hasegawa GMC trailer.


Another PC conversion with older colours.


Rear view of the same vehicle.  


The converted AT 25mm Hotchkiss portees had some foliage on the gun's shield as it can be seen in wartime pictures. In my case it was also a way to desguise the wrong shape of the shield I scratch built.


The figures are Hat from the French artillery box. As these figures are Dragons Portés don't forget to add a blue collar outlined white.

The standard version of the Laffly S20 had a FM29 LMG added and a converted firer with torso from Hat and legs from Esci Italian Alpini as the ones I showed you a few posts ago.

Lastly I converted a Lancer Resin Somua MCG 4 as a Recovery vehicle. As this one is expected to tow damaged vehicles it has the blue/yellow triangle so typical of French towing vehicles.


The crane was scratch built in plastic and drilled into the resin. The towing cable is metal from an old neckless my mother gave to me to this purpose convinced that its not silver or gold. I hope it wasn't.

Next: probably a big assault on 1939 Polish forces, but still not sure or some 1940 French artillery.

10 comments:

  1. Excellent collection, I'm envious

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  2. It was very good unpainted... it is now Impressive!
    Bravo!

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    1. Thanks l'empereur. Glad to have such a follower😀

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    2. Is't alltimes a pleasure to watch your product!
      Thanks to you!
      :-)

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  3. Just fantastic mate, most impressed :)

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  4. Bom trabalho JP. Produção em massa -:) como sempre. Acho que nem as fabricas franceses eram tão rápidas a produzir e pintar como tu..lol
    GAb

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    1. Obrigado amigo. A rapidez anda a lixar-me já que estou a fazer fisioterapia às mãos. E não é daquilo que estás a pensar, é do pincel mesmo.

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