Western Desert Italian WW2
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About the Project
For some time I have been slowly building up both British (both 8th Army and LRDG) and German forces for the Western Desert for use with either Chain of Command or Bolt Action. Then for my birthday I was presented with a Italian Platoon in early war uniforms so now I had to get started.
Related Game: Chain of Command
Related Company: Too Fat Lardies
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Support troops
Finished the support for the Italian infantry platoon, these include the light mortar, anti-tank rifle, antitank gun and artillery support. Oh and armoured support if you can call it that ?
45mm Light Mortar
Spare infantry for extra crewAnd finally varnished and based
So finally finished off the basic Infantry Platoon and to say the early sections are large is no understatement and wondering how they will play out in Chain of Command.
The basic platoon is made up of 2 sections, each comprising of 2 LMG teams commanded by a sergeant and a 10 man rifle team commanded by a corporal.
1st Section
2nd Section
Overall PlatoonAlso completed a mortar and HMG support
Now time to move onto some more support weapons and a bit of transport.
On to the rest of the figure
For the rest of the figure I used Vallejo basalt grey for the webbing, Iraqi Sand for the sun helmet and bags, black grey for the boots. These were then given a wash of Army Painter soft tone and finally a light dry brush of Iraqi sand to bring them all together.
Starting the infantry
Starting with the basic infantry platoon all the figures are from Perry Miniatures and are in the early war uniforms, first a quick clean up and a base of undercoat.
Awaiting the block colours Similar to my previous “Infamy” project the aim was to get these figures “table ready” rather than try to win any painting prizes (which I wouldn’t anyway) so it was going to be basic block colours and away. For the main uniform it was Middlestone, puttees Field Grey and then a dry brush with pale sand.
Middlestone Uniform
German Field Grey for the puttees 
Dry brush with pale sand
Dry brush with pale sandIt was then a matter of washing with a soft tone and another light dry brush with sand and then it was onto the rest of the figure.
