Back with a continuation of the 1941 North Africa project, this time with more of the same!

There isn’t too much to discuss from a painting standpoint, these were done in exactly the same manner as my previous post.

I built the Bren team prone for a bit of variety.

I was pretty happy with how some of the eyes on these turned out so here’s a look at that!

There will be plenty more where these came from, I have a whole lot more infantry to paint for this army as you might expect (and plenty more on the German side when I get to them!). This leads me to talk about what I’ve got planned for this army. As I mentioned last time, this army was partly inspired by my Great Grandfather having been part of 8th army in WW2, hence building these as British (the Warlord kits provide a ton of different heads for troops from all over the empire). I also plan on adding some Australian troops to the army as a nod to where I live now.
Here’s my planned army list with the currently painted models crossed out in red:
1940-42 Commonwealth Infantry Brigade (British)
– 2nd Lieutenant – 2 Extra men
– Artillery Forward Observer
– 10-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 10-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 10-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 5-Man Royal Engineers Section – LMG, Anti-tank grenades
– Machine Gun Team
– Medium Mortar Team
– Field Artillery (25pdr)
– Bren Carrier – Pintle-Mounted LMG
– Matilda II
1940-42 Commonwealth Infantry Brigade (Australian)
– 2nd Lieutenant – 1 Extra man
– 8-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 8-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 8-Man Infantry Section – LMG, SMG
– 5-Man Infantry Section – LMG, Anti-tank grenades
– Bren Carrier – Pintle-Mounted LMG
– Matilda II
– Matilda II
As you can see I still have a lot to do! This was never intended as a short project, and should take me quite a while to get through.
Nicely done, Nicolas! 🙂 I like the variation in the helmets/headgear! I bet you just know you want to drop one of those Australian Matildas and have a captured M13/40 with the big kangaroo markings on instead!
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Thanks John, yes those captured Italian tanks do look amazing and I will sure do one up at some stage!
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Great work on these as well, and I’ll certainly be looking forward to seeing the Aussies when you get up to them! 😀
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Thanks! Yeah really looking forward to those, painting hats will be a nice variation on painting helmets!
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The eyes do look really nice on these and I like the basing too. It looks like the minis and basing go together and are almost one piece, where many times the minis and base do not seem unified with each other. Its kind of hard to explain but hopefully you know what I mean 🙂
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Thanks! Yeah I know what you mean, it’s definitely easier for historical minis where the uniform matches the environment to some extent!
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