War in the Desert - African campaign GB - 12/9/07 to 5/13/08

Just to add a bit to the Italian list of subjects:

CV.33 and 35 tankette
Carro Armato L.6/40
Carro Armato M.11/39
Autoblinda
Sahariana
81mm mortar
47/32 AT gun
Cannon 105/28
149/35 Royal Army Cannon
Flak Cannon 90/53
Truck w/mounted 90/53 gun
Tractor TL37
Fiat and Lancia trucks

note: there was a lot of WW1 artillery still in use

Fiat CR.32
Fiat CR.42
Fiat G50 ‘Freccia’
Macchi MC.200 'Saetta'
Macchi MC.202 'Folgore
Fiat Br.20
S.M. 79 ‘Sparviero’
CantZ 1007b. ‘Alcione’

espins1 wrote:

Lot's of goodies to choose from British M4 Sherman M3 Grant/Lee Matilda II Crusader Bren M3 Honey Various scout cars Spitfire Hurricane Tomahawk Beaufighter Boston American M4 Sherman M2A2 Halftrack, bunch of variants Jeep M3 Stuart M7 Priest P-40 Warhawk Spitfire P-38 Lightning F4F Wildcat Dauntless B-25 Mitchell B-26 Marauder Italian M13/40 Semovente And that's just for starters.  I'll add to the list later.... heading off to the gym for lunch.

Dang! That's an awfully good start....but how about the French and Polish?

Thanks Espins!

Mark Joyce wrote:

jgeratic1 wrote: Question - which badge do I use since it is an american tank, but in british markings? My recommendation is to use the Badge for the Brits/Commonwealth.  That's what I've done with my build, which is an American plane (the P-40) flown by a RAF squadron. Mark

Dan 

jgeratic1 wrote:

Question - which badge do I use since it is an american tank, but in british markings?

My recommendation is to use the Badge for the Brits/Commonwealth.  That's what I've done with my build, which is an American plane (the P-40) flown by a RAF squadron.

Mark

dupes wrote:

Hmmm....been poking around trying to find some sort of armor/aircraft list for the Nth Africa Campaign - not coming up with much that isn't German. Anybody have some sort of link that includes some info about the other five countries involved?

Lot's of goodies to choose from

British
M4 Sherman
M3 Grant/Lee
Matilda II
Crusader
Bren
M3 Honey
Various scout cars
Spitfire
Hurricane
Tomahawk
Beaufighter
Boston

American
M4 Sherman
M2A2 Halftrack, bunch of variants
Jeep
M3 Stuart
M7 Priest
P-40 Warhawk
Spitfire
P-38 Lightning
F4F Wildcat
Dauntless
B-25 Mitchell
B-26 Marauder

Italian
M13/40
Semovente

And that's just for starters.  I'll add to the list later.... heading off to the gym for lunch. 

Townsy11 wrote:

SWEET I was hesitant about joining before but after seeing all the badges I'm definently in! I'll be doing Tamiya's ancient 1/35 Panzer IV Ausf.D I'm gonna make it primarily a painting/weathering project so I wont buy any aftermarket sets.

Hey, I've been considering that one as well. I mean, not for this build, but just in general.

My Panzer II is gonna be OOB also, which will be a first for me (at least, the first one in a long time).

darson wrote:

Hey Scotty, I saw this great looking Honey on Hyperscale this morning and thought you might be interested. http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/britain/stuarthoneyshl_1.html Cheers

Thanks Darren! 

Don't have any specific link for Allied hardware, but the most used aircraft were probably the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire & Curtiss P-40M.  I'm not an Armor guy, but I know the Crusader played a significant role for the Allies.

Regards,  Rick

Hmmm....been poking around trying to find some sort of armor/aircraft list for the Nth Africa Campaign - not coming up with much that isn't German.

Anybody have some sort of link that includes some info about the other five countries involved?

SWEET

I was hesitant about joining before but after seeing all the badges I'm definently in! I'll be doing Tamiya's ancient 1/35 Panzer IV Ausf.D I'm gonna make it primarily a painting/weathering project so I wont buy any aftermarket sets.

hey all...

Well sign me up for Sherman II - a conversion of Tamiya's 1/48 scale  M4A1.  I've already spent a good amount of time on research and ordering after market products. 

Question - which badge do I use since it is an american tank, but in british markings?

For those into boardgames, there is a new one out for Alamein for a mere 200 bucks!

Same for me I'm afraid, I have a lot of builds on the go at the moment but I'm still going to try and make a start on the Panzer III even if the build goes a little slowly while I finish up some other stuff.

Cheers

rjkplasticmod wrote:

Don't wish your life away Ben .  I'm just hoping to get the three builds I'm working on off the bench in time to start this one. Regards,  Rick

Actually, i'm also glad that we aren't starting right away as well. Aside from clearing space from my bench, i do have to deal with work as well. Since the fires are still blazing, my work schedule can get kinda iffy. I'd been lucky the last week or so actually working in the QC shop where i have computer access. But Murphys Law does tend to dictate my schedule at times. I'm sure that with the christmas rush upon us, everyone is probably knee deep in work these days.

Don't wish your life away Ben .  I'm just hoping to get the three builds I'm working on off the bench in time to start this one.

Regards,  Rick

9 Toe Tanker wrote:

Ummmm... ..... .... ....is it 12-9 yet?

 I wish.

9 Toe tanker, the one I am building is derived from the L6 light tank and first used in Tunisia in early 1943. A bit of too little, too late. Here's a picture of the one at Aberdeen.

Mike T.

Hermesminiatures wrote:

So back to the desert, and the days of long ago - before these fancy electronic machines complicated our lives...

You ain't kiddin'. Lookin' forward to this one.

ben1227 wrote:

I use PB...4th link down...IMG? I just want it to take up less characters of my signature, since the limit is 512 and I don't want GB badges taking up all of that.

Actually there is no character limit for signatures on this forum....but the signature area is limited to 100 pixels high. So doing something like linking an image won't take up space, however adding a new image will.

The badge looks good in your sig so you don't have to mess with it anymore, just thought I'd clarify the limit issue.

Don't anybody feel bad about not being able to figure out HTML on the first try...I have the HTML 4 and CSS 3 protocols memorized only because I do a lot of web design.

So back to the desert, and the days of long ago - before these fancy electronic machines complicated our lives... 

Hey Scotty, I saw this great looking Honey on Hyperscale this morning and thought you might be interested.

http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/britain/stuarthoneyshl_1.html

Cheers

I use PB...4th link down...IMG? I just want it to take up less characters of my signature, since the limit is 512 and I don't want GB badges taking up all of that.

The image url is the web location of the file.  In otherwords, the weblink that takes you to the image of the picture.  If you use photobucket to host your images online, then you simply copy and paste the 4th link they provide for you.

This, for example, is the url to the pic of me standing in front of the Elefant at Aberdeen.

http://www.espins.info/PICT0074.JPG

In order for it to show up as an image, I click the little button on the message tool bar that looks like a tree, and paste that link into the box, then click insert.