To represent the British tommy in the game it is a difficult choice. The game manufacturers do produce some British infantry, but they are dressed for the desert campaigns. Fortunately I had a couple of boxes of the latest Airfix production, which was their rather odd WW2 British Infantry set. I had no other use for these figures and so decided to paint some of them for use in some of the scenarios. Strangely some of the figures are wearing their gas mask container on their chests, B.E.F. style, yet they have PIATs, which are late war items.
Anyway, splashed some paint on them, based them and here they are:
British infantry advancing in Normandy:
Regardless of any historical inaccuracies these really look the part of Tommies - great work!
ReplyDeleteThank you Stryker. The figures kind of remind me of pictures of the British advances outside of Caen; lines of troops walking through waist high cornfields, to be met by German artillery and machine gun fire.
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