All,
So, if you've been following my blog for any amount of time you know I've got a penchant for doing my own, odd thing, stuff that probably doesn't make any sense to anyone else. This is another of those situations ;) I found myself with some leftover early war Germans, Afrika Korps, and Fallschirmjager models from Warlord Games. Not wanting to let anything go to waste, and wanting to diversify my collection even more, I decided that having Afrika Korps and Fallschirmjager for Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy, wasn't enough, I was going to build some Hermann Goering Division troops just for this as well. They've always been interesting to me ever since 1) I read "Drop Zone Sicily" as a child, and 2) saw Germans in camo in the Kasserine Pass sequence of the movie "The Big Red One," also as a child.
I like doing Hermann Goering division troops because I get to do some cool camo and some mix-and match uniforms; not sure if it's real or not, but people on the internet are claiming they wore SS-type oak leaf camo and that's good enough for me! ;) I did it in 15mm, too... Then I really went out on a limb, found some guys on the internet that said some HG Division troops even wore the FJ helmet, so I couldn't help but mix a few of those into this force as well. I'm sure it's all apocryphal, but it will be okay.
The whole mess, just an rifle platoon and an extra MG-42 team on tripod, figured I could borrow mortars and ATGs from Afrika Korps, FJ, or 'regular' Wehrmacht.
The boss, in fall oak-leaf pattern smock.
A couple MG-42s moving up.
Two more machine gunners moving up.
Reverse.
A machine gunner with MG-42 kneeling and pondering life.
Reverse.
A couple assistant gunners.
And the last one.
Reverse.
A couple squad-leader types, dude on left has an FJ helmet on.
And two more, go on right has a satchel of some sort under his left arm.
Two guys in a hurry with their SMGs.
Reverse.
And another pair on the move. Man that's a lot of automatic weapons in these HG squads!
Reverse.
And one more, moving up, having a smoke while reloading.
Couple guys moving up, looks like I missed a photo (of their front sides).
Another pair of riflemen, and that dude on the left should have been up higher with the a-gunners...
Pair of kneeling riflemen.
A couple guys I messed around with and 'kit-bashed' a bit. The one on right, I just took one of those ammo cases that come with the 50mm mortars and put it in his hand, but on the left, I took a panzerfaust and tried to turn it into a hafthohlladung, a hand-held (and hand-delivered) shape charge for knocking out tanks.
The machine gun team, with MG-42 on a tripod.
And one more.
Pretty cool, I'm happy how they turned out, and plan to use them in some skirmish games where troop quality varies (i.e., can show/use these guys as a cut above the 'normal' Afrika Korps in Tunisia).
And then, because I forgot to photograph these earlier and I’m not sure now where to put them, I’ll just tuck them in here:
Some German anti-tank guns: a Flak-36 88mm dual purpose gun (the dreaded “88”), a Pak-40 deployed and a Pak-38 being towed.
The 88. I bought this off EBay from a guy in China for $45, painted!
Again. A very nice model.
And the other two guns. The Pak-40 is from Artizan or Crusader; I love their models because they are simple to put together and look nice. The Pak-38 is from Warlord; it’s very pretty, but very complex and I have a hard time putting a lot of their metal guns/mortars together.
V/R,
Jack
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