From GrantH - 28mm Canadian Highlander Recce Team (10 points)

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy out there as the pandemic goes on. It has been a rather busy time for me since I have just started a new job following the winter holidays, so I am sneaking this small post in just before the cut off. I have already begun to make good progress on my backlog, so hopefully I will be able to make consistent posts in the coming weeks now that I have settled into the new routine.

Anyhow, for my first post of this challenge I have prepared a 28mm Canadian Highlander recon team using Warlord Games' plastic British and Canadian Infantry set. Their old commando and infantry plastic sets were definitely in dire need of an update and I was quite pleased with the new designs overall. It definitely motivated me to finally get around to building a dedicated Canadian force for my games of Bolt Action and Chain of Command.

For these lads, I have opted to depict them with the darker green Canadian battledress as it distinguishes them nicely from their British counterparts on the table-top. Having recently read Tim Cook's excellent two book series on the Canadian contribution to WWII, I decided that building a Canadian force themed around the First Canadian Army in northern Europe was the way to go. As such, this recon group will likely be the first part of a force themed around assault pioneers and WASP IIC detachments that were present for the Battle of the Scheldt. 

The spotter is just a little more on edge than the sniper as they navigate the marshy terrain of the Scheldt.

 This recce team are possibly D-Day Veterans as they have Mk. III assault helmets strapped to their packs.

A pair of completed 28mm figures is worth 10 points total if I recall correctly. A small start, but I plan on ramping up quickly since I set a total goal of 750 points back in December!

Ideally, the rest of the Scots-Canadian pioneers will be completed soon so I can move on to new projects. I think every year I participate in the challenge I claim that I will finally get around to the Napoleonics that have been in the backlog for several years, but something tells me the Spanish Civil War will be my new distraction after I finish the Canadians...

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Wonderful to have you with us again this year Grant! These Canadians looks terrific. I like that you have them in their slightly darker battledress, wearing their tams, though I expect the tin hats will be going on quick enough when the Jerry mortars start up. :)   Tim Cook's such a great historian and I can see how his work would get you enthused to get a force of Canucks painted up. I look forward to seeing more from this project!

- Curt