Troops on Parade - British Desert Force 1941

My name is Ken, I am a Gamer, it's been 4 days since I last bought any figures.

Troops on Parade is an excuse for me to get one of the collections at Yarkshire Gamer on the table, these have been the feature army on TOP before but I finished off the painting on all the remaining vehicles in the to do pile so this is it..... Although I could have a Dorchester ACV 🤔

Below is a video of the Army, in which I ramble on about various things whilst looking at the figures and models.

If you can't be bothered with the Video here's some photos 

An over view of the entire army, 50 Tanks, 9 Armoured Cars, 18 Transports and 180 figures.

The 6 Mk VI Light Tanks, 3 from Blitzkrieg Miniatures and sporting original colour Caunter, 3 more from Warlord sporting later "faded" Caunter.

The early tanks, 4 x A9 Cruiser Tanks and 5 A10 Cruiser Tanks, one a CS version, all vehicles Warlord sadly no sand skirts, the Warlord models don't have them.

Seven A13 tanks, these are from Blitzkrieg, 2 different turret versions.

6 Matildas, all Warlord Games models, the names have a Wind in Willows theme.

9 Crusader Tanks, 6 from Blitzkrieg in plain colour nearest the camera, 3 in Caunter FRO M Warlord at the end. Although I believe the first batch of Crusaders that arrived in the Desert had Caunter applied I have never found a picture of one.

12 Stuart / Honey Tanks, all Blitzkrieg.

A couple of Perrys wonderful 2pdr Portee models and 3 Marmon Herrington Armoured Cars from Company B.

Some of the Infantry Figures, all Perry Miniatures plastics. 

Three Bren Gun carriers in the service of the York and Lancaster Regt.

Eight trucks, 4 CMP and 4 Bedfords all from Anyscale Models.

More Infantry each company has 3 command figures and 3 Platoons of 10 figures each plus a 3 inch mortar and an Anti Tank Rifle in support.

Another 3 Bren Gun Carriers, this time South African.

3 Marmon Herrington Armoured Cars aka "Monkeys" with 3 Morris CS9 Armoured Cars in the background.

A lone Valentine Tank.

And finally a couple of lovely Rolls Royce Armoured Cars.

There we go, hope you have enjoyed this little journey through the 28mm British Desert Collection, there is a similar post on the Italian Army if you look back on the blog. Next post will be a review of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Crusades Force.