SdKfz. 251/7 Ausf. C two times at the crossroads

[Vincent Power]

Wow, your figures look great Raoul. I like the composition of the three guys consulting the map. You can easily imagine their confusion

Vincent

[Shawn Ramsey]

Wow, your figures look great Raoul. I like the composition of the three guys consulting the map. You can easily imagine their confusion

Vincent

Yes they do. I wish I had your motivation.

Shawn

[Raoul Kunz]

Thanks Vincent and Shawn!

Yes they do. I wish I had your motivation.

Trust me, you don't . I'm only so productive because I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and have to be home until everything is sorted out medication wise which still might take a while...
................end of self pity.....................



Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz

[Raoul Kunz]

...I feel a bit ashamed for wallowing in self pity...especially for going for it when it was triggered and biting your head off Shawn


...AAAAAANYWAY - I think I have all the figures ready! Yay!

Meet the cast! (back to front and left to right):

In the back=>
Oberst Dr. Ing. Horst von Holzingen, arrogant, not good with the other officers, quite the know-it-all in spite of having zero combat experience, tries to mask the fact that he's lost and probably the cause for the embarrassing debacle.
"Ammo-Arno" , eastern front veteran, has been fighting the Ivan since Barbarossa, partner to and calming influence on machine gunner Lukas (the worried bloke in the half track).
"Tank-Killer-Kurt", if he wouldn't be wearing a parka you'd see his 3 Panzervernichtungsabzeichen.

Middle row=>
Leutnant " One-Eyed-Helmut" Mickeler, highly experienced combat engineering officer, currently happy that he hasn't to deal directly with Oberst von Holzingen most of the time.
Hauptmann Heinrich Wilhelm Carl Julius Friedrich Freiherr von Schlonz, former cavalry officer, prefers to be addressed with his old cavalry rank of "Rittmeister", of Prussian Junker decent, hates and deeply despises (yes, both!) von Holzingen, would probably duel him if it was still legal.
Leutnant Julius Kuboth, another former cavalry officer and friend of von Schlonz, followed him to the mechanised assault engineers, is the only one to actually remembers to address him as "Rittmeister".

Front row=>
"Bayonet-Bertram", has managed to actually kill an Ivan with his bayonet during a nightly trench raid on the German Position, though ever since he's been more than just slightly unbalanced.
"Paranoia-Peter", hasn't really seen any combat yet but ever since Bertram told him of his experience with a mad gleam in his eyes he's probably even more scared than even the eastern front in '44 would justify, though only ever so slightly more of the Russians than of Bertram.




(I know, it's completely pointless to give them names and backgrounds but it was a fun exercise, even if it serves no purpose )


Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz

[Vincent Power]

I love it. You know you will have to name all your figures now Raoul!

Cheers,
Vincent

[Philipp Gross]

Get a good comic artist to make the blog's offical graphic novel

Philipp

[Raoul Kunz]

Update! (at long last)
First I'm really sorry I kind of went missing in this thread... I... err... was a bit frustrated.

I managed to crash-land the AFV Club 251/7 C and most of the interior and several pieces as well as the MG-34s (with a recently added Fla Visier -_- ) went in several (really ALL...) directions around my table.
I was close to a rage quit at this point...
Evidently I didn't because it would really have been silly...
Eventually I repaired the 251 and even, unexpectedly, managed to locate both of the lost MG-34s (of course only after I had started to build another from a MB MG-34 and a RB barrel) though of course without the Fla Visier...
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Once I had managed to relax a bit (in case you haven't guessed by now, I tend to be a bit choleric... not pathologically, but it's there ) I went ahead and started to add mud to the two 251s and tracks to the AFVC.
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I also gave Tank Killer Kurt's Panzerfaust 60 the instruction decal on the warhead.
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Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz

[Philipp Gross]

Gravity, every modeller's natural enemy....

I'm glad you could fix it.

Philipp

[Gary Boxall]

Been there, done that. Just waiting for the T Shirt to arrive

Gald you perservered though

Gary

[Vincent Power]

Good recovery Raoul. Sorry you had to make a recovery in the first place though

Vincent