From DaveD: It’s still snowing, but the Veldt is filling up (161 points)

I am still cracking on with various items for both the Ardennes and now for the Zulu war (oh and some Naps)

First up are the rest of the infantry to finish my Volksgrenadier company. When I looked at the organisation I found I had missed a stand from each of the two previous platoons having done 5 rather 6, so I had to do 8 this time to make things up . I also added the company HQ and the 2IC 

The shell holes are also new additions this week - picked up from the bits box at Pendraken 

35 figures in these 

 

So here is the full company and the Pz Grenadiers .

I can now add some more support items , HMG’s and Mortars and of course some 88’s and ATG’s .

 

Next up are more vehicles for the US forces 

It’s the US army - you need jeeps 

One if my favourite vehicles the M8 Greyhound armoured car.(or3)

My other favourite US Vehicle 2 x M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer- don’t call it tank , cause it isn’t !

Got to sneak in an M16 AAA halftrack - 4 x 50cals ouch.

Oops - is that Skorzemy’s Kommandos pointing them in the wrong direction?

 

I have a decent amount of US vehicles completed now . Well it is now covering nearly 8 feet (or 2.4 metres ) as a column 😆😆

Is that Henry Fonda in that Piper Cub ? No they seemed to film “The Battle of Bulge” in Spain in summer, no snow involved  …

So for the Ardennes I now need more German vehicles  and guns , and more US infantry . All of which are in the stash which is good .

And now to the Southern Hemisphere. Last week I had most of the lads done for the first regiment. I was able to get things prepped up ready for starting on the next 4 after my holiday , so I took the opportunity to add the extra 35 figures (only needed 28 but a few more to fill the bases was the aesthetic choice)  in 3 bases to finish it off

And here is the full iButho  the uMbonamvi the Seers of Evil.

The frontage as deployed here is 360mm - 16 inches , so it’s taking up a decent bit of space

Thus unit represents about 10% of the initial Zulu army - so only another 13 various sized iButho (regiments)  to go - time to crack on .

 

The next lot 420 Zulus ready to meet the brushes 

Scores :-

35 x 15mm inf = 70 pts 

7 x 15mm vehicles = 56 pts 

35 x 10mm inf - 35 pts  (and 35 to colonial duel) 

TeemuL: It still snows and the minis are still small, all is well! Looking forward to see the 420 Zulus next week...

Your column looks impressive, almost like 1:1 ratio of real columns and well enough for your winter table. And your Zulus look good, too, they need a bit different table to game with - a lot of empty space I guess, because the army will need a lot of room to deploy.