MORE NAVAL FIGURES!

Too late to participate in my recent wargame, have just completed the crew for my Soviet Gunboat. Had a spot of luck, picked up this box of Zvezda WW2 naval infantry (1/35 scale) for only £6.99 delivered. These boxes 'float' around for £15 plus postage. To be honest, I think this set is worth about £10 plus postage, so I'm still entitled to be pleased. Keep in mind, the figures do not come with bases, I had to construct mine out of some spare bits of plasticard. In putting them together, I deleted most of the infantry equipment, etc, as they are to serve with the gunboat, and I wanted them to look like they are operating it's guns. With the Airfix HMG convert, I now have a crew of six. There is also a laying down LMG figure but he will serve elsewhere.

On a related subject, I recently disbanded a surplus American 1890s battalion, and decided to reuse the old converted Foot Guards figures into something more useful. Here is my Japanese Naval Command base. I also gained two Japanese Navy petty officers, to go with my landing party. And, constructed a Japanese infantry command base, one of the guardsmen is a judicial officer (this branch dispensed with boots).

(still to construct banner)

Finally, I decided to paint up that 'Starlux' associated figure. It does look a lot cleaner!

MGB

PS, I'm back to my researches in late March and during April. Will try to get a few more posts uploaded before the 20th. And will return to wargames when I need a break from reducing my notebooks. Regards.