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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.

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Friday, 24 July 2015

Rapid Fire! 20mm - 16. Luftwaffe Field Division, Normandy 44, part 11:pioneers and supporting 1053 artillery PaK abteilung

This is the Pioneer battalion of 16. LwFD. It's made mainly of Revell figures from their Pioneer box and ESCI, some Airfix hard plastic (the guy with the map from their Sdkfz 222/Kubelwagen set) and some metal from SHQ like the radio man who started life as an SS A/T crewman. The main idea was to place something to do with engineering/pioneering in every stand so they could be easily recognizable.

Some of the figures were transformed to carry some metal barbed wire I had hanging around since finishing the defences of my Omaha beach. The flamethrowers are ESCI.

Another group built and painted at the same time was 1053 PaK abt. that supported this Luftwaffe division. Simple and cheap Airfix models from the Opel Blitz set with PSC figures. I will use the original Airfix crew as OP for SS batteries.

The PSC figures come from the PaK 38/50mm gun set. Each box has 24 figures for 4 guns so you can save half of them to other projects.

Monday, 20 July 2015

Rapid Fire! 20mm - 16. Luftwaffe Field Division, Normandy 44, part 10: Jäger battalions finished!!!

Yes, yes my friends, I know this is getting kind of dull and repetitive but...
Finally!! My sixth Jäger battalion is complete and that means all three regiments of infantry for the 16.Lw FD!!!

Again the same mix of soft and hard plastics, using PSC, Esci, Revell, Chinese Airfix and Atlantic.

I also built some more 120mm mortar stands from PSC and these recruits will join the first 3 battalion which had none of these weapons up to now

The Forward Observers are PSC figures from the PAK38 box. PSC offers 6 per gun which is too much for Rapid Fire! rules so you can use the extra figures as FO or radios for the command stands.

Next, as SRD predicted, Revell pioneers and Hat bicyclists for the last two units of the division. Ah, and these guys had the company of Artillerie- PaK Abteilung 1053, a unit from the Heer, so may be I start with these last ones in order to get back to field grey uniforms.