Army Reforms - British Armour

Having been advised of a source of 1/87 scale tanks, I contacted Butler's Printed Models (BPM) and placed an order. Unfortunately the early German vehicles that I was after are not yet available, but I was able to obtain some additional British tanks. These were six Crusaders and three Grants, which have now been painted and weathered:

I thought at just over a fiver each they were good value and the service from BPM was excellent too.

Army Reforms - The Panzers Arrive

I have repainted and beefed up my Afrika Korps panzer force. My original Roco Minitanks have been reinforced by another six from the Spanish firm EKO. Here they are off the production line:

One of the new Pz IIIs:

They are very similar to the Roco version, but are different moulds.

Here is a Stug III, which I believe only served in N Africa in limited numbers:

I am trying to source some 1/87 scale Panzer 1 and 2 models, but so far I can find none that arereasonably priced in the UK.

Army Reforms - Afrika Korps

I enjoyed my Arnhem game very much, which promted me to dig out some of my old plastic WW2 figures. I thought I could reorganise them to be used in future Memoir '44 engagements.  The first figures that I stumbled across were my WW2 desert forces and these old Airfix Germans, along with some Roco Minitanks make up a useful 1942 force:

There are two infantry groups with supporting machine guns, light anti tanks guns and engineers:

Armour consists of some Mark 3 tanks:

Some Mark 4s:

An anti aircraft unit:

Assault gun:

And artillery:

The same box has some Airfix 8th Army figures that will allow a similar force to be generated. Some desert battles coming up, I think.