Daimler Armoured Cars ready to Scout Ahead of the British Armoured Advance.

After my recent love fest I have been having with Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) the past few weeks with my Cromwells, Churchills, and Half-Tracks, I was a little disappointed to find out that PSC didn't have any options for British armored cars. I went back to Battlefront a picked up a pair of Daimler Armoured …

M5 Half-Tracks for a British Motor Platoon

Last week I added armored support for my British infantry with a Tank Platoon of Churchills. This week I'm beefing up my infantry support foe my British armor with a box of Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) M5 Half-Tracks. With these I can field one of my British infantry platoons as a Motor Platoon. Unlike the …

Armoured Support for the British Infantry has Arrived!

Continuing my quest to flesh out my British Army and my new found love for Plastic Soldier Company (PSC), I have added a platoon on Churchill Infantry Tanks. I bought a box of PSC Churchills, which gives you the option to create Churchill mk III, mk IV, or mk IV (na75)s. I built the five …

The Desert Rats in Normandy

Back when I originally posted my British Army, all I had were 2 sad Firefly VC tanks left over from my Open Fire! Box Set. These 2 Fireflies have finally found a home in my Desert Rats Armoured Recce Squadron. I bought 2 boxes of Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) Cromwell IVs which come with 5 …

British Odds n’ Ends

I've recently been spending quite a bit of time beefing up my British Army. I just finished a few odds and ends that I picked up at Huzzah Hobbies the other day.  I just wanted something not infantry or tanks to paint. I added a pair of British Lorrys so that I can at least …

Orchard Terrain feature (mini-tutorial) and updated M3 Stuarts

After Christmas I had to make a trip to Michael's, the craft store. They had much of their Christmas inventory on sale. I found these cheap little trees for 70%, or about $1.20 a set, so I bought 5 sets to make an orchard terrain feature. The tree boles were pretty cheap plastic so I …

British Armoured Regimental Recce Platoon Reporting for Duty

A couple weeks ago I randomly picked up a Zvezda Stuart M3A1. Zvezda models are really cheap and the quality varies from model to model. Every once in a while I buy one just to try it out. The M3A1 model is ok. The detail is minimal and it was made out of cheap plastic. …

General der Panzertruppen Dietrich von Saucken

General Dietrich von Saucken fought throughout most of WWII, taking part in the Battle of France, the Balkan Campaign, and Operation Barbarossa as the commander of a motorized brigade of the 4th Panzerdivision. He was appointed divisional commander during the Battle of Moscow. He was wounded and spent several months in the hospital. He returned …

Time to Call In the Big Guns

    The 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or sFH 18 was the German's standard Heavy Gun during World War II. For most of the war each Division had an integrated Artillery Regiment, field howitzers for Infantry/Grenadier Divisions. The Artillery Regiment of the Infantry Divisions was made up of four battalions, each battalion was four, four …

Soviets Scouts take to the Tabletop to Infiltrate the German Lines

I followed up my Soviet Zis-3 Artillery Battery with another addition to my Soviet Army. My Soviet Scout platoon was fun to paint. They wear the amoeba style camouflage smocks which I painted using Russian Uniform (Vallejo 924) with patches of  German Camo Dark Green (Vallejo 979). Soviet Scouts performed an important role during the …