Show us yer stuff!

[pmskaar]

Thanks very much, Mark! I may look at a mix of yellow and white stars but I will have 1 color or the other in my various units. So.... perhaps my Sherman units will have white stars. The Lees may get yellow or white but one or the other. Same for my halftracks etc. This seems to be one of those case where you could go either way and no one can definitely say you are right or wrong.

[Guroburov]

Very cool minis Mk 1 and history there with the yellow stars.

[panzergator]

Yellow stars were initially used by Armored Force in North Africa. The yellow could sometimes show as black or white in black and white film. White after North Africa, but I need to look into it more. I think I have a reference, but need to find it. The answer is not simple.

Very nice work. Good TOE info too. Ou bring it to life.

[chrisswim]

Mk.1 Excellent painting of the 'Army at Dawn'. Thank you for sharing your work and a reference pic.

Thank you gentlemen: Burtwolf, Pete, Mk.1, PG: glad you like the work on the Fuchs.

The antennae's have been on the Fuchs for many years, the light m.g. is a recent add-on. I wasn't going to add the tan & black, but I might to one set of vehicles. In the event I conduct a game with German 1990s + I may want some in olive drab. The commonwealth does not need everything in 3-tone Aussie cam. I did collect a bunch of other fuchs that I have not put to use yet after stripping them down.

[redleg]

I love the antennas Chris! Are those electronic warfare vehicles? Commo vehicles? They look very cool.

Amazing work, Mark! I love how you always give us a history lesson as well as some eye candy! You need to post more often!

[chrisswim]

Redleg,
Thank you, glad you appreciate the pictures. The Hummels, where the center-line of antennae's are are E- detection, jamming, etc. The Fuchs with the 8 antennae are more command & communication as I see it.

[ACWBill]

HMS Warspite.



1914-18



1941-45

[Hoth_902]

ACWBill,

Great work on your miniatures.

[chrisswim]

ACWBill, very nice pics and sea state, smoke. Looks great.

[Guroburov]

Very cool ACWBill.

[BenfromBrooklyn]

Amazing ships!

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Chris...
One day I will try an EW vehicle. I should, I spent enough time with them!
Ultramodern EW vehicles would be easier- these days a lot of the Secret Squirrel Stuff antennas are inside fiberglass enclosures.
For older EW equipment, antennas are generally of three types:

Single "whip" antennas... Just plain radio antennas. EW vehicles often had a number of these, each to a different radio, because they wanted to monitor many freqs at once without tuning back and forth.

Direction Finder antennas- these are an array of verticals around a central post. For the higher frequency ranges, often all together in a disk or barrel shaped housing.

Jamming Antenna: Directional. Typically a Log Periodic design, which looks like the old fashioned TV antennas (you know, the era before cable, when dinosaurs roamed). One horizontal that points towards the target, and a series of antennas crossing it perpendicular, shortest to the front, longest to the back. That would take a lot of thin wires, steady hands and nerves of steel to create. Look up a pick of the US Tacjam for an example.

Russians often use a parabolic. Either way a jammer is a directional antenna, because it takes a lot of energy and energy not aimed at the target is wasted.

There will be a quiz on this. From my description above you should be able to determine the functions of the vehicles in this unit:

[redleg]

Great looking ships, Bill! It's very cool to see the same ship at two different points in time!

Thanks for the lesson, Ben! Now I'm a little more dangerous!!

[7.62]

Ben, nice to see a post on the dark arts.
I am actively building both EA and ES equipment on wheeled , tracked and maybe manpacks. Also air and sea based just for good measure too.
Hope to be able to field an effective branch of my armed force, integrated down to even small units.
My attempt at some DF kit.



As impressive as all the new wizardry is. I still stand in awe of two Royal Signals NCO's with a cheap cassette recorder in a Land Rover bringing a major UK exercise to a standstill (early 80's). Absolute classic carry on confusion

[redleg]

Nice work, Mick!

[BenfromBrooklyn]

My attempt at some DF kit.

Those are nice!