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Very true. Despite its many detractors and various myths that don't stand up to scrutiny, the PIAT was a very effective weapon and capable of knocking out anything in the German arsenal... If you got close enough. Re reloads - you only had to cock it once before the first shot. Each shot then re-cocked the weapon.

Anyway, here's Part 2 of my Churchillian waffle: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/04/23/ ... 45-part-2/

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:18 am Also Mk IV NA75 and the Mk I CS with two 3-inch Howitzers if you're doing Italy... Oh sod it; go the whole hog and do the Mk I, Mk ICS, Mk II and Mk II Oke as well... And the bridgelayers… And the AVREs... And all the bits to go on the AVREs...

No joke. We've already done the Oke, bridgelayers, and AVRE variants. It was just the gun tank info we needed. So thank you.

The current situation means that I've been painting (and buying) Napoleonics at an unprecedented rate, so here are some Brunswickers, Cossacks and other odds and sods that have recently been moved from the lead-pile to the Active Duty List:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/05/05/ ... mment-6079

Lovely, the Austrian Hussars are one of my favourite uniforms. My one regret is that AB do campaign uniforms with coveralls.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 4:39 pm Lovely, the Austrian Hussars are one of my favourite uniforms. My one regret is that AB do campaign uniforms with coveralls.

Yeah, I know... There are some frustrating gaps in AB's range.

Nice stuff Mark
The biggest gap in the AB range I think is Russian infantry in Greatcoat

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:13 pm Nice stuff Mark
The biggest gap in the AB range I think is Russian infantry in Greatcoat

I thought they'd done those. The frustrating bits for me are niggling little bits that you need for complete units, such as Duchy of Warsaw cavalry elite companies, or odd units and troop-types to complete armies, such as Saxon/Late French horse artillery, Confederation infantry elites in bearskin, and French-type hussars in full shabraques rather than sheepskins (which would be good for Saxon, Spanish or Baden hussars or Young Guard Chasseurs a Cheval). Most of these could be produced with a simple head-swap (simple for Mr B, that is - not me).

No Battle honours did Russians in greatcoat

valleyboy wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:31 am No Battle honours did Russians in greatcoat

Yeah, I've got a single pack of BH Pavlovskis in greatcoat sitting here somewhere.

Ah, to satisfy my curiosity, I've gone to have a look at the AB site and see that they do the Early Russians in greatcoat, but not the Late Russians. That's why I thought they did them.

I've been photographing some long-forgotten units in my wargames armies. I did these about 20 years ago and I don't think they've ever seen a game!

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/05/09/ ... andy-1944/