Romanian Emil - part 3

 Here is the completed Bf-109E resplendent in Romanian markings and hastily posed ‘in flight’.

Romanian Emil - part 2

 Despite the lockdown this week I’ve actually been quite busy so having daubed the underside pale blue, it was only Friday evening before I got round to continuing the paintwork (above).

This morning I finished off the paintwork - such as it is - and hopefully I’ll be able to slap on the decals later on.

Romanian Emil - part 1

Searching for 1/72 air support for my 1/32 Romanians, I spotted in a pile of unbuilt plastic this Hobbyboss kit of the Bf-109E-3.  I remembered building a brace of Hobbyboss 109G a while back and that they had gone together very nicely. 

Confident that I had some crumbling Romanian decals, I opened the box for a look. Like the Gustav, it seemed a simple and well-moulded kit. But the best was yet to come.....

....yes indeed - as well as the Luftwaffe decals the kit also contained a Romanian set!

Crisp parts. And not too many of them!

15 minutes in and time to think about paint. 

Romanian infantry WW2

To accompany my mountain troops I painted some line infantry. These figures are Classic Toy Soldiers plastics. CTS sell the same figures listed as Italians and Romanians, though the helmets are very definitely Italian in shape. So my dilemma was - do I just paint them or alter the shape of the helmets?  Predictably I opted for the easy option!

The complete figures. Enough for a weak battalion in our Sevastopol 1942 game.

A damn useful book!

Romanian Mountain Troops

 Slightly better photos of the finished figures. Now read on.....

Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19, I am continuing to plan and prepare for this year’s games. For the Sevastopol 1942 game I wanted to have some Romanians available and as no specifically Romanian figures are available, a gentle ponder was required.

I decided on bodging some mountain troops and used the Hat/Waterloo1815 WW1 Italians as my starting point. I trimmed down the helmets and added Milliput berets. You can find a lot of issues with the result but I purposely kept the figures rather vague as they may be called upon to serve as various other khaki-clad beret wearers. Spaniards and Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais spring to mind.

 A bad photo of the finished figures. 

Work in progress - the chaps before varnishing. 

I’m thinking of doing more Romanians - possibly adapting the CTS Italians.
Brian C has taken a different approach, mining his apparently bottomless pit of plastic figures - see also Brian’s post here.

MiG-17 part 3

 I managed to get the Fresco finished during the week and celebrated yesterday's nice weather by taking photos outside.  In a crazy twist I went for Romanian markings - one of several Warpact sets which came with the kit.

I have more aircraft coming soon - but not a wing in sight.  Start practicing your 'wokka wokka wokka' noises now....