Show us yer stuff!

[chrisswim]

Thank you again guys.
Just painted these.





Abrams in MERDC with mine plows.









M113

[Guroburov]

Good work, Chris. Those pieces almost disappear on that background. Have any of you missed a vehicle until cleaning up after a game?

[chrisswim]

Guroburov,
Yes we have played we’ve had a piece periodically that is hiding under a tree on the stand. Usually a jeep,, HUMMV, etc.

[BenfromBrooklyn]

Guroburov,
Yes we have played we’re a piece periodically is hiding under a tree on the stand. Usually a jeep , HUMMV, etc.

This is one reason I started basing the vehicles! I think I lost about 4 jeeps that way. Since I use modular terrain boards, sometimes a lost jeep or motorcycle would appear in a future game. I remember a friend of mine using a jeep as a forward observer throughout a game, and then we realized...he didn't start with that jeep, it was left over from last time!

[chrisswim]

Ben, I hope that guy won with the extra FO.
The fog of war.

[pmskaar]

Chris Miller, those are great looking vehicles. Excellent paint work!

Chrisswim, your MERDC type schemes are looking very good these days. You seem to be very close in the proportions and the vehicles look great.

Pete

[redleg]

Great looking MERDC Chris!

I always seem to have an FO or two hiding in the carpet...waiting to call for fire on me!

[BurtWolf]

Ben and Chris - that is really funny. And I can picture that happening! I just can’t bring myself to base my vehicles, my ocd kicks in on seeing grassy bases on tanks moving down a paved road. I know, it’s just in my head.

[chrisswim]

Garbage truck to haul your trash away.





Estonia
4th Panzer Grenadier BDE
1st Panzer Grenadier Battalion and 7 M-3 Scout vehicles.


2nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion


3rd Panzer Grenadier Battalion with only two companies, 1 Armored and 1 mechanized. We will have to look one more company of Abrams.







Not sure what to do with these yet, could become M-3 Scouts.

[Mk 1]

Here is one to make anyone else who has an Italian WW2 force jealous.


My GHQ Fiat Torpedo 508 CM.

It's just a quick one-off I did, a bit of a kit-bash, while working on another more complete unit (yet to be shown).

I was inspired by a recent TMP feature on "Painting the Fiat Torpedo 508 CM ( http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/352450/ )

So now, with this pic (from the TMP article) to guide me:



It was time to make my own Fiat Torpedo CM.

For those who don't know, the Italian Fiat Torpedo CM was essentially the Italian equivalent of the VW Kubelwagon. It was a probably the most common field car for Italian forces in WW2. It was based on the Fiat 508, a civilian vehicle of the inter-war period. The CM indicates a military version of a civilian vehicle. The reference to "Torpedo" comes from the civilian line of cars, where it was the name of the body style with 4 doors and a convertible top. This same car was also made for African duty with wider tires and a few other minor modifications, in which case it was called the Fiat Coloniale.

Anyways, I have an Italian force which I very much enjoy enhancing with all kinds of interesting kit. Yet I have never found this vehicle offered anywhere in 6mm. But now I have one. I like it.


But .. but ... where'd ya get that thing from? I hear you cry...

Well, see, I had the happy coincidence of rummaging through the extras bin while I had this car on my mind ... and I came across a Polish PZInz302 car. It is from GHQ, and can be found in the Polish line as the prime mover for the Bofors 37mm AT gun:



I happened to have this because I bought this set from GHQ for my Romanians, who also used the Bofors 37mm AT gun during the initial phases of WW2. But they didn't use Polish cars to pull them, so eh, into the extras bin it went.

Looking at it in my hand, I began to wonder what I could use this PZInz302 for in my forces. Did anyone else use it? Or anything like it? Should I try to convert it to a civilian vehicle? Who made the thing anyway? Well a quick search and whadyano, the PZInz302 was a military adaptation of the Polish-built Fiat 508!

I was doing some jeeps with crew figures anyways, as I am putting together some Mech Cavalry/Armored Recon for my US forces. So adding this on the workbench was not a big deal. I cut off and filed down the spare tires along the sides, filled in the open doors, added a folded-down roof along the back edge, added an officer in the back seat, and added a spare tire on the back to complete the kit-bash.

It will probably be a frequent cameo in my Italian gaming. Might dig around for the other one (they come 2 to a pack with the guns) and do that one too some time. But for now at least one of my Italian gentlemen can ride in style. As for the rest of 'em, it's just "get in the back of the truck, Signore".

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

[Guroburov]

That's pretty epic build there Mk I. I love the kitbash.

[chrisswim]

Mk.1, really good stuff. Great kitbash.

[panzergator]

Admirable kitbashing effort, Mark.

[redleg]

Wow Mark! That's awesome!

[BenfromBrooklyn]