Home Guard Platoon

After way to long, I have finished off this platoon, being a project almost three years in the making based on other blog posts and receipts I have found in my books dealing with Operation Sea Lion.

For some background, when I started I was looking at Mick Yarrow's 15mm line. They looked good against some of the Flames of War figures I was contemplating and I purchased a platoon. Does anyone know why Flames of War never got around to designing a Home Guard line of miniatures? As I worked on these healthy looking figures,  I found that I really wanted to stay with Peter Pig so that I why I have a company with two platoons, one of big healthy farmers and a second of towns folks of slightly svelter proportions. These will be used with either IABSM or Chain of Command.

So without any further delay here is my latest platoon.

HQ Team

First Section

Second Section

Third Section

Two additional patrols or a single section with two many Officers and NCOs

Tigger Gets New Stripes

It has been a very busy couple of weeks as I cleared off the items on my paint table. Part of this was finishing up my 1944 Germans and a few odds and ends. The other was to get ready for the new Brigade Models AeroNef line. This was part of Imperial Skies a KickStarter I took part in.

So this is what I have completed.

• 16 dead early war Germans from Peter Pig
• 8 German Police/Gestapo from M.Y. Miniatures
• 8 German Panzergrenadiers (12th HG) from Peter Pig
• 5 German early war crew and engineers for early war from PSC
• Panzer IVF for the battle near Caen 1944 from Game Models
• Tiger I from the SS. Pz.Abt. 102 from FOW
• British Mark VI for my new 1940 British from Game Models
• Panzer VIG for Normandy from Game Models
• Sd Kfz 222 painted for for early war from Game Models
• Sd Kfz 13 for early war and police duties from Game Models
• Sd Kfz 251 for Normandy from Game Models
• and 4 trees :-)
  

Here is the Tiger I was uncertain how I wanted to paint it for Caen.

The Sd Kfz222 and Sd Kfz13 are from Game Models.
The Police/Gestapo are from M.Y. Miniatures