Never leave home without your gun..

I hear all the time, people saying Bolt Action is a infantry based game. Squads this squads that. 

Well I am a fan of infantry, they more than play their part, but I'm the type of player that likes to put toys on the table. 

And a staple of my waffen SS army is The 10.5 cm leFH 18 German: leichte FeldHaubitze. 

The 10.5 cm leFH 18/40 supplemented the 10.5 cm leFH 18 and the 10.5 cm leFH 18M as the standard divisional field howitzer used during the Second World War. It was designed in an effort to lighten the weight of the 105 mm artillery piece and to make it easier to produce. Generally it did not equip independent artillery battalions until after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943. Some were also exported to Finland, where they were known as 105 H 33-40.

The model it self is from Warlord Games, goes together nicely and easy enough. The base is and old CD I use them for mostly all my big guns ect. And the basing material is just plane old polly filler. 

The wooden slats are made from pices of and old fashioned fruite and veg box. Is made from a type balsa wood. Ingest them from a friend. I will maby do a thread on them, as they have some many diffent cuts of wood, I use them for most terrain jobs. 

I will post more om my Waffen SS in the future (as they are my only finished army, well I say finished...)

Thanks for reading

Regards,  

One of your 5 A day...

I'm a keen believer in getting your five a day, and one of my 5 a day is big guns! 

Today on the menu is the Iconic QF 25pdr!

The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply, 25-pounder or 25-pdr, was introduced into service just before World War II, during which it served as the major dual-purpose British field gun/howitzer. 

Combining high rates of fire with a reasonably lethal shell in a highly mobile piece, it was the British Army's primary artillery field piece well into the 1960s, with smaller numbers serving in training units until the 1980s.

I purchased two of WestWind productions, 25pdrs from their Berlin or Bust range. To add to my 8th Army Bolt Action army. 

These came with a large crew of 28mm figures in western field dress. These have gone in a draw probably never to be used. But the guns were perfect for what I need, no muzzle brake, that was fitted to the gun later in the war. They come with a little limber (ammunition carnage). 

No instruction 😒, but not to hard to figure out. 

8/10 product IMO. 

Without further delay, here they are:

I held back a few of the plastic perry chaps, and with a bit of cutting shutting and general gluing. Here is the result. 

I green stuffed some beret on a couple to give some originality. 

A few arms are standard, a few arms are bren gun carrying arms with the gun cut away. 

One chap in each crew has a shell in his hand, made from a shaped bit of resin I had lying around. 

The putty on the base, is 4grounds base render, LOVE this stuff, it's pretty much just filler, but just seems to be easier to work with. 

The camo net, I picked up off a military modeller on eBay. 

Any question please ask, 

I will endeavour to answer any.

Regards,