WWII German Allies

I tried to make this unit complete.

Commanders, and flag men.

Anti-tank platoon, with horses to tow the guns.

The Revell German Artillery set to tow the HaT anti-tank guns.

Crews for all the guns.

Police Battalion Operation

A small village in Easter Poland.

A light dusting of snow on the ground.

A police battalion surrounds the village.

They move quickly and quietly.

Until all is ready

Germans and Anti-Tank Guns

Cossacks manning the guns.

Allied with the Germans against the Communist Russians.

Cossacks were on the side of the Czar against the Communists in the revolution.

They were never happy under Communism.

Serving alongside Germans.

Green Beret

New heads for this pair.

Gas masks are in fashion this season.  WWII German rescue crews often wore gas masks to protect themselves from smoke from bombing raids.

Slovakian troops, allies of the WWII Germans.

Made from HaT WWII Polish troops.

New German heads to change their look.

An easy conversion, using extra German heads from their horse cavalry troops.

Just a small squad.

One troop, he will serve alongside my Esci / Italeri Vietnam troops.

Bloused boots, and Green Beret.

Volksstrum Men

Pegasus, Fujimi and Airfix.  I have a lot of Pegasus guys in the spares box that needed arms attached, they will mostly end up as Volksstrum.

More Indiana Jones and another Fujimi, this time with a Prieser head.

Pegasus on a new base, Matchbox with a new head and arm and another Fujimi guy.

Middle figure is Strelets, Russian Cossack, now part of the German army!

Ykreol figure with British paratrooper Thompson, and on the other end an Airfix Civilian with a Bren gun.

More VS troops.

Airfix WWI British guy.  I needed his signal flags for my WWII German navy and so now he has a rifle and a pointing hand.

German Allies

I am trying to put together small units of all the Allies the Germans had in WWII.

Sometimes it's easy to simply buy a box of Italian troops, or Hungarian troops.

Frequently these small units would operate mostly in their own countries.

Sometimes they would operate on the Eastern Front.

Sometimes they would operate in other places, such as Berlin at the end.

German Artillery

These are the 1/72nd scale Zvezda howitzer.

I painted them panzer gray for German use and painted the base a contrasting dirt tan color.

I got some extra Revell artillery crew figures from their excellent WWII German Artillery set as crewmen.

The Germans usually used these in batteries of four guns.

I have not determined what towing vehicle I will use, but probably halftracks.

Nazi Guns

Hat Soviet gun captured by the Germans and put into German service.

In WWII the Germans were short of everything, except enemies.

So when the Nazis captured a few guns, they always put them back into service.

These HaT guns in 1/72nd scale are perfect for wargaming, they are sturdy and quick to assemble.

I mount them on a sheet of plastic so they are even sturdier, figures are separate.