Italian Coastal defenders - Sicily 1943

[xccam]

I wanted to do a platoon of from the Italian Coastal Regiments charged with the defence of Sicily in 1943 after I saw this image of really nice light blue fatigues.


The Platoon + Breda MMG and AB41 armoured car

Painted them a bit more blue than in reality to make them stand out better at tabletop distance, but maybe went slightly too far - they look reasonably good.

Close up of the AB41


I put together an antiparatrooper truck from the Nuclei antiparacadutisti units using a British naval 20mm mounted on the back of a French truck some crew (2 Italian officers and 1 German 20mm crewman sat on the side) along with a 3 person Breda LMG team which I'm overall pretty happy with.

White balance came out a bit wrong due to the artificial light in this image - the uniforms should look a bit more blue - like in the rest of the platoon.

[paulr]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are beautiful! 

[mmcv]

Great work, loving the armoured car!

[Ben Waterhouse]

Lovely, got a soft spot for the eyeties, my father in law fought them in the last Great Disterbance, and was always fond of Italians.

[Ithoriel]

Those look great. Always nice to see something out of the ordinary being modelled.

Particularly like the AA (or should that be AP?) truck

[lowlylowlycook]

These are super nice looking. 

[Techno]

Lovely stuff ! 

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

 

[Techno]

Just as a matter of interest chaps.

What colour do you see the uniform, at the top of the thread ?

I know we all see colours slightly differently......But to my sad old eyes, that looks more of a light/faded khaki, than any shade of blue.

Cheers - Puzzled of Wales.

[T13A]

Hi Techno

Light grey with just a twinge of light blue to me.

Cheers Paul

[Techno]

Thanks, Paul  ......But I genuinely can't see any hint of blue in the top piccy.

Like I said earlier....I know we all see 'colours' slightly differently. (And, of course, it depends on what each of our  PC's/phones/tablets/whatevers is set up to reproduce on screen.)

The number of times when Mrs T (Von) and I have disagreed on what colour something is. 

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

Yep, a faded grey-blue to me too.

[Womble67]

They look brilliant

Take care

Andy

[Steve J]

Great work . The image looks more like a stone grey to me, but I too painted a Battalion in blue grey to make them stand out more.

[xccam]

Thanks for the compliments.
To me it looks blue in the top image - but colour's a funny thing. Either way given the supply situation for the Coastal Regiments I don't mind blaming any inconsistencies on "it's all the quartermaster had available" 

[Notku]

Great work as always Xccam! I just wonder what else you've got in the works?

May I ask why some of the officers are on square bases instead of round ones, out of curiosity!

[Dr Dave]

It all depends on your screen type and settings. To me it's grey...

But they are a lovely set of figures.

[fred.]

Great work on the figures, a really good looking and unusual unit.

To me the real uniform looks grey, perhaps slightly blue/grey, pretty close to the background colour of the forum.. It certainly dosen't look khaki.