When my brother visited in January, he brought me a few Tamiya kits, amongst which was a German motorcycle with sidecar which I just finished assembling and painting.
Apparently it is really good in game, I hope I'll have a chance to try it out as soon as possible.
This is the 3rd and final post of my British 8th army infantry for Bolt Action.
I have completed a set of Perry Miniatures with 40 figures and for infantry I should be good. I ended up with three squads, two of regulars and one of veterans, plus command and support teams.
To this I add a few vehicles and the army is playable. In the future I might add a gun and a second Matilda that I got in a trade, but was debating if adding to this army or use it for other projects (Soviet land lease).
Following there are the last squad (veterans) and a sniper team.
EDIT: a few pictures of the whole army so far
These is the second part of the infantry of my British 8th army, there should be another post with the final part of the infantry and the full army at once.
Today we have a forward observer team and the second infantry section.
My 8th army project is finally getting some steam and moving along nicely, I have started to complete some units and I should be done with the infantry in a couple of weeks.
I'm still debating if I should paint the second Matilda I have or if I should try to trade or sell it, since I probably won't have many chances to use two of the beasts in a game.
This week I have a finished infantry squad and a command section.
This is going to be the last post from Canada, next Monday I'll be travelling back to Italy and I hope to be able to finish something to post for the following one.
The figures in this post are the first I finished from a Perry Miniatures set that my fiancée gave me for Christmas. They will form the infantry of my North Africa 8th army for Bolt Action.
I had previously completed some vehicles, a Matilda II, a Dingo scout Car and before that, a utility car, it was about time to add some infantry.
This army will be used against my Afrika Corps army that I painted back in 2020 and never used since completion.
The first models I completed are some support weapons, the Bren machine gun will be part of an infantry section, the Boys anti tank rifle and the light mortar will be independent teams.
I'm looking forward to work on the remaining 34 models and have the army ready to play.
These are the last two 1/48 models that IlVJ gifted me a couple of years ago.
They are part of my (very slowly) ongoing Bolt Action project to give my Afrika Korp an opponent.
So far I have collected 3 Tamiya 1é48 models and I will, at some point, add a box of plastic Warlord or Perry miniatures infantry.
I wouuld prefer the Perry figures, my Germans are Perry and I think it would be nice to have the Brits in the same style, but we'll see.
Here are a recce unit and a tank to support my still non existent infantry platoon.
This is a model that my brother gifted me for Christmas a couple of years ago, I built and airbrushed it last summer and finally got around to complete it.
I don't yet own a German army, but IlVJ does, so it could be used there, I might even end up putting one together eventually.
This is the almost complete Africa Korps army that IlVJ has been working on in the past year or so.
He plans to add a plane and a couple more vehicles before calling it done, but it seems like he's not going to work on it for a while, so we thought to post what he finished so far.
All infantry is Airfix, Italeri and some metal Foundry, all vehicles are Italer, old Esci, Airfix, Fujimi and Hasegawa.
Questo e' il quasi completo esercito dell'Africa Korps su cui IlVJ ha lavorato nell'ultimo anno circa.
Il progetto dovrebbe essere completato con un altro aereo ed un paio di veicoli, ma pare che IlVJ non riuscira' a finire queste aggiunte per un po', quindi abbiamo pensato di postare quello che c'era di finito.
Tutta la fanteria e' Airfix, Italeri ed in minima parte Foundry, i veicoli sono Italeri, vecchi Esci, Airfix, Fujimi e Hasegawa.