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Though I can’t say for sure, I find it highly likely, Gareth. It looks very similar to pictures of a stowed Lakeman mount on a Covenanter Tank.

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That makes two of us, Dave 🙂

Thanks a lot, Jim! Having the word Lakeman was quite a breakthrough – even though it appears that after Africa the mounts had become very rare and by the time of the Normandy invasions they were all gone, replaced by “Motley” or more commonly “PLM” mounts.

There’s a lot of pictures and great info on various Bren Mounts in this thread: Maple Leaf Up Forum

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This is certainly my favorite, hope you win!

Splendid painting and a subtle brightness I really like. WW2 figures can be very dark and grimy or they can be painted so bright they don’t look like WW2 at all. You’ve hit the sweet spot!

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Here’s the painted platoon for the painting competition.

I’ve also taken a couple of mood pictures. I imagine a german outpost somewhere in the Western desert, a noise has alerted the garrisoned platoon and men are taking up positions to defend the camp.

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And here’s a quick pic of the entire painted platoon. Better pictures to follow! 😀

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The halftracks are now done. Almost at least. I have ordered a pak36 for the platoon leader’s vehicle, but I have no idea when it might be delivered. Probably not until after the deadline for the painting competition.

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Excellent information! I had been looking for those platoon organisation charts but with no luck 😀

For this platoon I’ll keep things simple until the painting competition is over, but you have certainly peeked my interest in AT support choices.

The painting is coming along nicely and still ahead of schedule. If this keeps up, there is a good chance I’ll have time to do the halftracks as well.

(I know the Sdkfz 251/1 were far from common, but they are quite iconic – and I have three of them just lying around).

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That is very interesting, I did not know about the ATk guns. Were these anti tank rifles like the pzb39 or something else entirely?

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All prepping work is done and the painting has begun a little ahead of my schedule.

Each model has had a base layer of skin, trouser and tunic painted. The uniforms are made in four different shades, as sun, sweat and local laundering have bleached them over time. The newest ones are green and the oldest have changed to a pale grey.

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All 30 models built!

The officer is slightly right of the centre with his 2iC and the messengers just left. The remaining platoon is behind them.

Up next is smoothing bases and undercoating the miniatures.

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Another two teams built along with the light mortar and observer team. Only the officer and his 5 man support team remains unbuilt 🙂

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The first 10 models are now built. I’m planning on having all 30 models assembled and hopefully basecoated by the end of this week, giving me two full weeks to paint.

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