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Those big rectangles are forest bases. They are 3mm plywood with holes drilled. This lets you relocate the trees when you need to place units in the woods. That way you don't have a "woods" area with two measly trees in it when occupied.

That group of small rectangles comprises a mortar platoon and 3 HMG platoons for my Spring Offensive (Flames of War, Russian front '43).

On the popsicle sticks a battery of American 57mm AT guns, some cows (for scenery in Russia), and some sample BTR60a's (trying out colors for Soviet armor).

Then come five bases of Russian Grenadiers for my Leipzig in Pocket Scale project.

At high Noon a walled farm, two stone bridges, and several simple buildings that will be part of the factory complex for my Flames of War game.

Finally at 3:00 another group of buildings to be part of that same factory complex.

Not pictures: on the patio drying, Soviet "Crash Boom" artillery - two full batteries worth.

So, what have you got in the queue?

Not nearly as much as you are...
Right now, I'm painting 26 Krupp Protze trucks I've had for "a while".
7 are GHQ, 13 are CinC, and 6 are kfz 69's from one of the British companies.
They're about on par with 1st. gen. GHQ, so being refurbished for lack of better...
Also have about 3 dozen light atg's & infantry guns I've been working at on and off.

Just finished a large group of RM and RN ships, and I have some USN and IJN in the queue.







Also... an Iron Bottom Sound Gaming Mat (more appropriate for 1/6000)



Tanner

Outstanding Tanner,
Those sure do look nice!

Great gaming mat.

Where'd you get that from?

I need a Falklands mat something like that.

Outstandig work Tanner. but there are a couple of details on the Littorio class battleships.that should be modified.

The airplane should be placed at the orher end of the catapult, pointing forward.

They were launched toward the bow angling outward the catapult.

And for what I know the red/white striped stern was used in 1940 only, when the Italian ships were not yet camouflaged.

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Thanks guys!

@BattlerBritain - it is a custom made mat... a Falklands setup in the same setup would not be difficult.

@Tammy - thanks for the clarification on the catapult. As for the camo and stripe pattern... often times we modelers have to take a little artistic license since there just isn't always solid evidence of patterns. In this case, if you Google "Littorio Battleship" for images you'll find examples carrying both at the same time. Most of these are modelling recreations but I often try to model to "general perception". I followed a popular color profile as my example.

How did you make that mat?

Good stuff. Lovely work on the ships.

I am waiting for 3 Tupolev TB-3s to arrive from the UK for a Dneiper River crossing scenario I will be running. The planes will be dropping Soviet paratroopers into the midst of German mech units. Things could get ugly quickly.

Tanner

the fact that is popular dorsn't means it is right. It menas simply that the drawings is liked.

Jus to make an example. The drawings with camouflage and bow/stern stripes is used n the cover of the Osprey (well known and popular source) for the Roma on the cover of their book on Italian batteships.

Thatis the "Roma" is made eviden by the "Fritz" bomb falling on it. Npw the rear deck of Roma in September 1943 was unpaintyed as shown by photographs.
Possibly Osprey chiose this popular porfile probably beause is what many readers expect to see on an Italian Battleship, but is absolutely wrong..

Tammy - I wasn't inferring that it is correct... Just that I don't always strive for perfectly historical painting. That is a never-ending quest that just drives me bonkers

Thanks again for the feedback,
Tanner

Cama that confirms my point but what ypu want/expect to see may not be what they really were.

BTW that profile is from sources in English. If you google umages for "Corazzate classe Littorio" (i.e. Italian for Battleship Littorio class) you will not find it but a different one with stropes fore and aft.

Tammy

Do you have a reliable source for the proper colors/patterns in use at different times? I have my own RM fleet I would like to paint up this summer so I would like to at least look at the correct information before deciding which path to take. Thanks.

The best source I know is "La mimetizzazione delle navi italiane 1940-1945" by Ermanno Bagnasco and Maurizio Brescia, published by Ermanno Albertelli in 2006.

It i a bit expensive (€ 60) but t includes color profiles of all the Italian warships, with chronological variants for the maojr ones.

Unfortunaely It is out of print.