Sunday, 29 January 2012

Is this the road to Amblève?

Ahead of Skorzeny's Panzer Brigade 150, this party of English-speaking German commandos in American uniforms will be causing trouble for the yanks. You have to agree, best bit of the movie Battle of the Bulge (1965), are the fake US MPs led by nasty Nazi Lieutenant Schumacher, played by Ty Hardin. So, we can't NOT include them in our 'pizzabase' Ardennes wargames can we?


Of course, these figures will also play a turnabout part as genuine US MPs thrown into the line alongside Engineers to halt the German breakthrough. And here are the first Dogfaces, bases still to be winterised. Looks like a scene from the movie already!

 "But we're cooks!"
"Lunch is over! Grab your rifles!" 

As an aside, I'm currently wondering if we should try some sort of bastardised Infantry Aces mini-campaign to add some depth and character to the games? Will think about that one.

This coming week, back to the Falklands as I paint 20mm Buzo Tactico for their raid on the Govenors Residence in Stanley as portrayed in the film An Ungentlemanly Act.

Cheers
Mark
 
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5 comments:

  1. Frankie30 January 2012 at 02:56

    Hi mate, looking forward to seeing your Buzo Tactico. I've undercoated 8 Special Forces divers by Caesar miniatures but can't figure out whether to keep them in various Blacks and Greys or whether they wore Green or camo uniforms under their respirators.

    Osprey seem to have taken their entire Falklands range out of production.

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  2. sapperjoe30 January 2012 at 03:43

    Hello!

    Sorry to have been out of the loop lately. Interesting idea for the pizzaboard battles. I might be drag my 15mm WWII that I have not sold off out again. I plan to still sell off a lot of them (I have a reinforced US Battalion 1:1! - mostly unpainted), but am thinking of looking at finishing up my US company, plus support.

    @Frankie - I would not worry about the Ospreys, I bet that they are reformatting them to be re-issued. I can't see them not having them out for the 30th Ann. I thought I saw them have a Campaign series for the Falklands on upcoming list.

    Cheers
    Joe

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  3. Frankie30 January 2012 at 07:40

    @Joe, I was guessing that with it being the 30th Ann. they are probably planning a big release to cash in.

    Unfortunately, for those of us trying to put something together for April, it makes it a little more difficult!

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  4. sapperjoe31 January 2012 at 03:29

    @ Frankie

    I know and Math knows quite a bit and have doing my own research and readings, some which can be found on my blog. If you have any specific questions, I know that we will try to help you with your questions.

    Cheers,
    Joe

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  5. Mark31 January 2012 at 06:52

    Frankie go to Scribd, type in Falklands.

    Or search for Buzo Tactico Malvinas on Google/ image search

    Cheers
    Mark

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