Just Deserts - The Road To Colours 2013 - Axis Plans

Hello All

Ben with details of my plans for the Just Deserts painting challenge.

Alex was pretty up for doing The Desert Rats, so I had to choice from the Axis options. I thought this would be an easy choice and I would just pick the DAK, but the Italians really spoke to me and I found myself on Easy Army writing more and more Italian lists. But there was always one problem, I'm not 100% percent sure how to paint Italian armour and with the lack of availability of the Battlefront Sprays I was stuck, this led me to the DAK (and of course Rommel!). I did a DAK army last year and although I sold it and really enjoyed painting it so would happily paint and collect another one. So army chosen it was time to write a list.

With the first goal of getting an army done for Colours 2013 I knew I had to chose my list early and stick it with it. Again back to a few nights of Easy Army and I came up with the following.

Confident    Veteran	Leichte Panzerkompanie Light Armoured Company	German Early-War
Tank Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Leichte Panzerkompanie HQ  p.61	1	Panzer III F (late) or G	155
Combat Platoons
Panzer III Platoon  p.61	3	Panzer III F (late) or G	460
Panzer II Platoon  p.61	4	Panzer II C (late)	225
Weapons Platoon
Panzer II Platoon  p.61	4	Panzer II C (late)	225
Divisional Support
Heavy Panzerspäh Platoon  p.73	6	Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad)	285
Air Support  p.90	7	Priority Air Support Ju 87B Stuka	150
Company Points:			1500

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Source document: Hellfire and Back!

With the rules of the challenge I split the list into 500pts chunks as best as I could (not easy with the points of an Early War army). I'm looking at splitting it down like this:-

• Month 1 - 4 Panzer III's (I'm keeping this as a light month as I also have my Welsh Open army to paint)
• Month 2 - 8 Panzer II's
• Month 3 - 6 8-rads and the Stuka

After this I will focus on either an Infantry Company or (if I'm feeling either brave or stupid enough) a Motorbike company for the rest of the challenge, but I'll leave it until the time and see how I feel then. 

Thanks for reading and until next time

Ben