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This a wargaming place were you can see a growing collection of miniatures and terrain of many historical periods in 20mm (but also a few 10mm,15mm and 28mm) started when I was 10 yo. At the moment it has several tens of thousands of miniatures from foot figures to Destroyers. Occasionally there are some war movie critics and some travel to military sites. My family considers it the best wargaming site in the World even if it is the only one they know. More on @joaopeixoto5249 YouTube Channel.

Sunday 27 June 2021

Rapid Fire! Market garden in 20mm - Oddities and such (part 13) - Last few models for the Germans

This post is about the last few German vehicles and figures still missing for the new Market Garden RF! book. It´s again a bit nostalgic post as it marks the end of a project started many years ago with the first OMG book and with a few converted Char B1bis into German flamethrowers. Here there are also some extra guns and vehicles that will be used in other 1943-45 campaigns.

The vehicles are 3d prints in resin (Sdkfz 11s) and PLA (RSO). The guns are S-Models for the SIG 33, Resin prints for the Zis-3 and a scratch for the 75mm IG37.

These are the two Soviet Zis-3 for the FJ Regiment von Hoffman, part of KG Walther.

The guns were printed by my friend Mário Laranja and the figures are converted Esci and Revell FJ.

One of these Sig33 150mm guns will go to the SS Infantry gun Training Battalion of the SS Mattusch KG part of Von Tettau 'Division'. By having a pair of these they can also become, for instance, the 13th companies of each of the Regiments of PzGrenadiers of the 12th SS in Normandy.

The S-Model guns are crewed by converted PSC figures from the Support Weapons box.

Again more PSC and an Esci figure to crew this IG37.

This one was made from a multitude of origins:

- trailer from a shortened Zvezda 75mm gun;

- plastic wheels;

- barrel from an old Esci 25PDR gun;

- muffler from a piece of carved plastic;

- shield cut to shape from a metal part of a Lorraine 75mm SP from Skytrex that came surplus by mistake.

Another Revell command group for the FJ.

A few more Sdkfz 11, tows of 75mm/ 105mm guns in late campaigns.

The models are resin prints made in one (!) piece. Well, it has a separate steering wheel...

The RSO is a PLA MiniGeneral print, for SS Eberwein KG, very nice and sturdy. I have a number of them already with snow in the bases for a 1944/45 VG division but as everybody knows "It never snows in September". A trick I´m nowadays using in 3d prints is to spray them with varnish before priming them. Somehow the printing lines get much more disguised.

Next: More HG division fore Sicily 1943.