Masters Colin and Richard ordered us to have around two incomplete battalions of Greek infantry for two of the actions in the Crete booklet. Greeks are fun to make as they had pretty much WW1 designed uniforms - in fact much like the rest of the world - with many similaraities with, for instance, the Italian uniform. The equipment included a home made helmet that for many years was thought to be Italian but in fact was produced in Greece. Another interesting particularity of the Greeks equipment was still the usage of the WW1 British helmet. All these can easily be converted from plastics.
The base of this force is the Airfix WW2 Italian infantry box together with some help from StreletsR, Revell, Esci, and some Airfix Japanese.
The British helmets came from WW2 Airfix and Esci. The ones from Airfix fit very well on the Italian torsos as I suspect they were made by the same sculptor.
Some radios are mandatory. I´m not sure if the Greeks carried them like this but at least its a possibility.
The marching Airfix Japanese enters the group well as its the same size with similar looks.
The machine guns were more tricky. One of the Strelets Italian boxes provides an MMG that looks like the Schwarzlose still used by the Greeks. The foggy figure to the left is a WW2 Airfix British torso on top of Italian legs. The binoculars figure is a German WW1 Revell with a British helmet.
The LMGs were taken from Esci Alpini and glued to the Airfix figure (after cutting its rifle).
Next: a few day off and then lets see what is coming from there or what is on the mail while arriving.
