All,
Alright, enough of Northwest Europe already, right? Yeah, me too, so I painted up a bunch of stuff for North Africa. Yeah, I know, I still haven't finished up my Western Desert Commonwealth, Italian, and German forces, but I'm working on it, and still, it's no reason to ignore the Yanks! ;) So that's what we're looking at here; I'd previously run an abortive attempt to do Americans in Tunisia, but it was a skirmish project and didn't capture the grand sweep of what I really wanted to do, so I halted, backtracked, and worked up a new course of action, and here you see the fruits of my labors. As with the British and German forces I posted, quite a bit of this stuff was bought, rather than painted, but I'm posting because I still put quite a bit of work into it and I'm looking forward to getting them on the table.
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Here's the whole mess, a Regiment of infantry with organic support, plus a boatload of arty, transport, recce, and armor. Oh, and even some air support!
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The infantry regiment, set up as leg infantry under the Rapid Fire order of battle concept.
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Yeah, you see some bazooka figures on regular rifle stands because I didn't have enough riflemen and the damned Flames of War company box gives you something like 18 two-man bazooka teams, which is about fifteen more than I actually need...
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Some M-7 Priests.
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A pair of 75mm armed M-3 Gun Motor Carriages/Tank Destroyers.
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Some M-3 Grants.
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And how 'bout some P-40s, just for good measure?
To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2021/06/15mm-wwii-us-forces-for-north-africa.html
Overall, I'm quite pleased that these are finished and ready to hit the table. Who shall they fight, you ask? Well stand by, I shall show you tomorrow evening!
V/R,
Jack
Another good looking army.
Good grief...You have been a busy chap, Jack !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Lovely stuff Jack. My go to FOW allied army back in my playing days.
One question: where do you store all these boys?
Thank fellas, and yes, I have been busy. Lemmey, storage is becoming an acute issue...
V/R,
Jack
Those look great Jack 8).
Thanks Steve!
V/R,
Jack