LRDG & SAS Platoon finished

 

Although the second section made for a legitimate Behind Enemy Lines force it was rather small and some support options were needed to fill it out: an MMG team, a sniper team, and a forward air observer join the two sections and armed trucks.

While the British get a free artillery observer it didn't feel right to use one with this list as they're likely miles behind the lines blowing up an airbase or an ammo dump.  I'd picked up the Warlord figure of Flying Officer CFC Lee, and decided to give him the Company B Blitz Buggy as a "counts-as" Jeep for transport. The buggy model had a few problems; the wheels attach directly to the body without axles, which is OK on the rear, but difficult at the front, and the resin had a fair bit of pitting on the surface.  I built a couple of axles out of pipe, and coated the surface in thinned PVA which helped with the worst of the effect.

The machine gun team was interesting as I hadn't built a team weapon before. I'd seen some examples with removable extra crew magnetized to a larger base and wanted to try that out. I attached two of the crew to small round (Perry) bases drilled for magnets and matched these up to the base. Bits of another base were used to lift the gunner to the same height. The coolant pipe is a piece of paperclip wire.

The base was puttied up with some Green Stuff, and I built a bit of stowage for the rear of the buggy, using some foam board to lift some Rubicon bits and pieces.

The figures were painted in the same way as the other SAS and LRDG troops, though I'd refined things a little this time by base coating VMC Dark Sand with the air brush. It's the majority colour on all of the figures - I don't know why I didn't do it earlier. I also stopped fussing around with adding green to khaki for some pieces and just used VMA US Olive Drab.

The Blitz Buggy was painted in a simple single colour of UK Light Stone and weathered like the previous vehicles.

Sniper in a tropal coat, with his spotter.

Vickers Medium Machine Gun team with the extra crew magnetized for removal as casualties.

Forward Air Observer and his assistant with their transport.

Army List

 Built using the excellent EasyArmy.com, a 1000 point Behind Enemy Lines list.

Officer
Second Lieutenant		Veteran	78
1	Second Lieutenant
1	Infantry
Infantry Squads
SAS Infantry Section		Veteran	195
1	NCO with Submachine gun
2	Infantry with Rifle
4	Infantry with Submachine gun
1	Vickers K LMG (requires loader)
	Entire squad equipped with anti-tank grenades
	Who Dares Wins!
	Behind enemy lines
SAS Infantry Section		Veteran	212
1	NCO with Submachine gun
2	Infantry with Light Machine gun (requires loader)
5	Infantry with Submachine gun
	Entire squad equipped with anti-tank grenades
	Who Dares Wins!
	Behind enemy lines
Forward Observer
Forward Observer (Air)		Regular	85
1	Air Force Forward Observer
1	Infantry
Machine Gun
Machine Gun team		Regular	50
1	Medium Machine gun team
Sniper
Sniper team		Veteran	50
1	Sniper team
Armoured Cars
LRDG Armed Truck		Veteran	54
1	LRDG Armed truck
	Forward facing MMG
	Rear facing MMG
LRDG Armed Truck		Veteran	54
1	LRDG Armed truck
	Forward facing MMG
	Rear facing MMG
LRDG Armed Truck with 20mm light autocannon		Veteran	89
1	LRDG Armed Truck
	Forward facing MMG
	20mm light autocannon
	Pintle-mounted HMG
Transports
30 CWT Truck		Regular	35
15 CWT Truck		Regular	31
15 CWT Truck		Regular	31
Jeep (Blitz Buggy)		Regular	21
		Points	1000

And that's that.

So... another platoon, or a new project.  It might be time to pull a few half-finished Ogres out of storage, or there's British Airborne... or 2nd NZ Div in the desert, or in Italy, or the Home Guard, or Plague Marines... oh dear.