West German Reinforcements

 Lockdown, Tiers and Lockdown 2.0 have all combined to sap my painting mojo for the last few months. Nonetheless I have ploughed on through the malaise and finally got a few units finished. I decided that my West Germans needed a few reinforcements, mostly from H&R:

I've beefed up my artillery support with some FH70s, which were adopted by the Heer in the mid-80s. I've used H&R West German artillery crew and added a MIDGE launcher for a bit of character, since it's the only use that I can think of for it.

Even more potent is this battery of MLRS. I bought these for a game set in 1989 a few years ago, before looking again at their in service date. It turns out that they weren't in use by the Heer until 1990. As most of our games are set in 1986 I'm not sure if these will ever see action. Still, they look cool and that's reason enough for me to get them painted.

Incidentally, I've added the fiddly GHQ Iron Cross transfers to some of these vehicles, with a small dab of varnish to protect them. The varnish seems to have clouded over again. Hey ho.

Air defence has been enhanced by these Roland launchers from Scotia. I think that they will mostly feature in fixed defensive positions.

Another oddity, a pair of Skorpion minelayers. I don't think that mines can be laid during a game of CWC, so I may have to think of some house rules to get them into action. If not, they can just hang around in REMF positions during a battle. 

Finally, I thought that I should make a new CO stand, so here is General Von Klinkerhoffen explaining his master plan to his subordinates. I've used GHQ M577s with deployed tents, H&R infantry (from their newish West German 1980s range) and a table from a H&R WW2 German command sprue that Andy Kirk kindly let me have for free. I've added a small scrap of paper and painted it up as a map for the table. It works well enough.

It's always good to get some stuff finished and off the lead mountain. I'm off on another tangent for my next project, hopefully more on that soon.