More Blitzkrieg Germans

A few more Blitzkrieg items have been completed:

The command set, comprising an officer, a radio operator and a medic

The medium mortar set,

The remainder of the infantry platoon.

Still to be completed is the MMG team, and that will be it…for now.

Continuing the theme...

What a busy week it has been. What with work, storms, erupting volcanoes and a brief trip to smoky Sydney, not much has made it off the basing tray on the last week.

What has made it off is the first squad of German Blitzkrieg infantry.

There are a good number of Napoleonic Bavarian infantry progressing through the basing section, so maybe by the week’s end there will be something more substantial to show.

And Now For Something Completely Different

After all of the Napoleonic and other 19th Century items completed in the last couple of years, I have shifted forward a hundred or so years to 1940.

A couple of others in the group have collections of 28mm WWII, focussing on the early Blitzkrieg period. Now I am not a huge fan of WWII gaming - much of it is too technical for my simple brain - but if I sm going to do this war the it us going to be this early period, specifically the Battle of France. So since one of these players has a reasonable sized French (which would have been my first preference) I decided to do a small German force and since the early version of the Hanomag half-track has always been a favourite of mine, I decided to do a Panzer Grenadier platoon, supported by a Panzer II, an HMG team and a heavy mortar team. In due course I will add a couple more tanks for variation (maybe a 38t and a Pz III) and perhaps an infantry gun.

But for now here are the three Hanomags and the PzII.