Pulp Afrika Korps

 I have now assembled, painted and based all the Afrika Korps figures from one sprue of four (plus the separate command. RT operator base) that come in the Perry plastic box set. I think there are about twelve figures and that this is probably enough to add to a couple of characters to create a Nazi Tropical team (I may expand into other geographical areas, who knows where the spirit of the Papilon will lead me...!) Next up will be some of the recently recruited Oriental infantry (as I have 50 odd and only need ten or twelve per team, the Japanese infantry may be repurposed as various Asiatic teams...Warlord Chinese etc - as well as the nation they are intended to represent). 

First up, all the newly completed figures together

Well that was random - for the first time in months, Blogger took it upon herself to re order the images so that, in the words of the Bible, the last shall be first and the first shall be last....I have taken the first and put them back where they belong but as for the remainder, it doesn't really matter what order they are in.....

Anti tank rifleman - he may not play often, I am not sure how much use his weapon will be in a non vehicular skirmish game...

Kneeling infantryman in cork helmet with KAR 98

Advancing wearing short boots and bloused trousers

Advancing with MP36 and wearing laced up knee boots and riding style breeches

Two more advancing riflemen in the earliest tropical uniform

Firing MP36 wearing "Afrikamutze" field cap and bloused trousers

As previous but advancing with KAR 98

Firing MG34 crew both wearing the Afrikamutze uniform

For something slightly different, most will know that here in NZ, we are currently in a strict lockdown to hopefully contain and eliminate an outbreak of Covid Delta. I have had the pleasure of being roped in to helping "in the field" as we have had quite a number of our courier contractors off word in self isolation after visiting locations of interest - fortunately, it has been beautiful spring weather here most of the last fortnight so on each occasion I have "played courier" it has been quite a pleasant experience

A reminder of pre covid times - that last meal out with my wife a few weeks ago - a local eatery has created a Big Mac Pizza using wagyu beef mince and including all the usual ingredients, lettuce, tomato and the signature pink sauce - it really does taste like the original. The beer was good too!

My colleague holding one of the "essential" items we delivered last week!

A small portion of freight awaiting delivery in my home town of Pukekohe

One of our contractors with another load of essential freight

Ministry of Education packs for kids to do school work from home, sorted by street in one suburb. This is all for one contractor to deliver so I took one street worth (about 50 items) and spent an afternoon walking down this street (below) first delivery at no 3 the last was no 113 (the very last house in the street). 

Hope all is well wherever you are - we have obviously had a rather distressing incident occur here yesterday which I am sure is hitting the headlines wherever you read this. Hopefully all the injured make a full recovery and the nutbar who caused the mayhem has already been dealt with by the NZ police, so we wont have to worry about a costly trial or putting him in prison - pity they had not done the same with the Mosque shooter in Christchurch!