US 13th Armored Regiment December 1942 FOW

big-gazza · Post by **big-gazza** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:41 pm

Hi,
heres a few pics of a mid war US tank company I recently painted for a Flames of War tourny. Big thanks to Peter Mc C for all his help.

Its based on the US 13th Armored Regiment of the 1st Armoured Division during December 1942. Still has the yellow stars and the Lees from 2nd Battalion.

I was looking for the grubby, worn look, as if they had been in the desert for a while.

So heres the pics.

Group Picture

Company HQ - Company commander having a briefing from the back of the tank.

2IC

First Stuart Platoon

Secon Stuart Platoon

M3 Lee Platoon

Recon Platoon

Armored Infantry Platoon
Half tracks

Infantry teams

Support teams

Armored Artillery Platoon

HQ

Staff team

Objective one - US recon team finds an enemy bunker and calls for support

Objective two - Burnt out French R35 tanks

All comments, good or bad, welcome

Gazza

Peter McCarroll · Post by **Peter McCarroll** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:49 am

Gary

I can see you must have been busy last week, your force looks great. Were you still finishing off the painting on the morning of the competition?

How did it perform?

Peter

Post by **barr7430** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:09 am

Lovely stuff Gary... just put me in the mood for a FoW game... we'll need to finally arrange that

j1mwallace · Post by **j1mwallace** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:38 am

Very good job as usual. Got the dusty feel just right.
we are still playing FOW a lot in sunny Dumfries. Played my FJ against a KV1 "horde" last night. Very enjoyable. like fighting 15 tiger tanks.
came right down to the last dice throw. Fj still unbeaten.... just.
Even with my fantastic dice rolling. 4 stugs (8 shots) at 3,4,5,6 resulted in
7 1,s and a 2 . next throw. 3 ones and a 3. one hit from 11 dice. !!
cheers
JW

Ronan the Librarian · Post by **Ronan the Librarian** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:28 pm

Very nicely put together.

One question - did some models of the "Lee" not have an mg in the commander's cupola? From my Airfix days, I always thought this was the main difference between the "Lee" and "Grant" variants.

(Interesting that the British variant was called "Grant" and the American version "Lee" as the real life Grant hated the British, whilst Lee was far more Anglophile.)

big-gazza · Post by **big-gazza** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:50 pm

Hi,
if any is interested this army is now for sale.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... CA:GB:1123

Thanks

Gary

Heneborn · Post by **Heneborn** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:22 pm

Those look really good, is the army built from the new North Africa book?

I don't like the look of the tanks on bases but you do it really good!

Churchill · Post by **Churchill** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:42 pm

Excellent work Gazza, you've really caught the feel of a force on campaign and I like the tanks on bases because of the added stones and clump's of long grass.

Best Wishes........Ray.