Operation Sea Lion, British Army

As the start date the Analogue painting contest comes close I decided to start preparing both of my Operation Sealion forces starting with the British units. The first unit will be a regular infantry battalion with some support such as Piat's and heavy machinguns. This unit will probably take some days to finish but won't be too much of a hassle. The paintjob will be quite forward with a lot of drybrushing and maybe some washes.

The rest of the army will exist out of a pair of Bofor guns and their tractors. As I haven't managed to collect a lot of british equipment at Crisis as there weren't much 20mm kits that I liked. These guns will be a real nightmare for my German Paratroopers and the German light armour units! I hope to extend the army with some proper transport, homeguards, some tanks and some AT guns. But that won't probably happen during the painting contest!

I hope you enjoyed this small post.

Greets,

British battalion

Hi, here are some pictures of my newest 20mm battalion, this time some British. I've bought these Esci miniatures at the B&B of Crisis 2010 at a price of only 2 euros! Well, that's a cheap battalion. Such as all of the Italeri or Esci boxes, the miniatures are extremly well detailled but a little bit oversized compared to the small Airfix miniatures. This isn't much of a problem as I haven't got any British battalions, so these will be the fifth faction following the Americans, Germans, Russians and Japanese!

The battalion will exist out of

- 1 commander (1 figure)

- 4 squads of 4 bases (32 figures)

- 2 Piat bases (4 figures)

- 3 heavy machinegun bases (6 figures)

The sturdy box, covered with some lovely artwork.

The miniatures still on sprue.

Another close up of the sprue, I like the soldier which is carrying wounded comrade. Before I will start to paint this battalion, I will first try to finish the bases of the 2 German paratrooper battalions!

Greets,