British QF 2 pdr from Britannia and Hinchcliffe

I’ve got two guns from Britannia (£2) and two from Hinchcliffe (£5).

Brittania – more details, but at the same time more clumsy, just check the shield.

Two versions from Hinchcliffe, shooting and towed – more slender but worse in detail.

Due to the fact that the crew removed the wheels when before shooting, you will need two variants, one shooting and one wheeled. Advantage to Hinchcliffe that have both variants.
I’ll just have to paint them… when I have figured out which paints to use.

Oh, by the way, QF stands for Quick Fire.

French Hotchkiss 25mm anti-tank gun from Hinchcliffe

French 25mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
This one is from Hinchcliffe too, just like the artillery, but much higher quality. Recommended.

I painted it with Vallejo 975 Military Green, dry-brushed with a lighter green and topped off with some pigments.

Here we have another of these guns I finished last year. The crew is a mix, three men from Battlefield Miniatures (lovely models!), one (in the back to the left) is from Caesar’s French infantry, and one, not seen in this picture, is a modified Airfix WWI French infantry-man that originally releases a pigeon.

French 75mm artillery from Hinchcliffe

This years goal is to finish as much as possible from the tin- and plastics-mountain, and as a part of that I checked the box of 20mm WWII-tin.
I found a couple of bags with guns, wining for paint.

French 75mm Canon de 75 modèle 1897

I found two bags from Skytrex/Hinchcliffe, bought for £5 apiece.
They were made of quite a lot of tin… meaning a lot more than was necessary. Terrible cast.

After some cleaning the result was decent.
French equipment was painted in a variety of possible and impossible ways, and I tried to get a militaristic look different from British and German equipment.
I painted the guns with Vallejo 887 Brown Violet, and dry-brushed with 886 Green Grey. As dust I used Vallejo pigment Dark Yellow Ochre, and soot at muzzle was MIG Black smoke.

I’m pleased with the result, especially considering what I started with.

More guns to come.