The M3 Scout Car, also known as the “White Scout Car”, is an American armored personnel carrier designed by the White Motor Company. The company responded to a 1937 call for tenders made by the US Army to equip its forces with a multi-role wheeled light armored vehicle capable of carrying seven equipped fighters whose body could be used for different purposes.

M3A1 Scout Car technical sheet

Creator: United States of America
Denomination: M3A1 Scout Car
Number of copies built: 20 918 (1940-1944)

Length: 5,62 m
Width: 2,03 m
Height: 2,11 m
Weight: 5 610 kg
Maximum Speed: 89 km/h
Range: 403 km

Armament: one 12,7 mm M2 Browning machine gun and one 7,62 mm 1919a4 Browning machine gun. Information from here.

Below with it’s cargo – the Captains Support Section

Tomorrow more of the same.

Today we have the Captain’s support team, which is a mixture of various specialists formed as a rifle section that could both support the gunners but also replace any crews that have suffered casualties.

Tomorrow I hope to finish the first components of another project……………..maybe!

The 4th and final gun in the troop

Below is the full 2/7th artillery in action.

You may have noticed the spotter in the centre fore-ground. The Bolt Action on;y allows one spotter for the troop, however all guns, wherever they are positioned on the table, can all use him.

The third gun in the 2/7th’s troop.

Tomorrow more 2/7th units but not the fourth 25pdr in the troop just yet!

We are planning to have a large game of Stalingrad, spread over several tables, starting 9th of February. Here is the “part completed” component of my share of the terrain.

In addition to these 20 tiles I have another 12 “Gothic style building tiles and four other ruins that have been completed for a long time. Here and here.

These could be used now although I would know they weren’t completed

Each will take about an hour dry brushing, highlighting and picking out the detail in the detritus.

This means I still have about twenty hours ahead of me to complete the project.

This one shows you what the completed building tile will look like.

I am not sure that I will go to the lengths of putting “wallpaper” on the walls like this one.

There is even a pattern in the remaining tiles!

Two of the essentials of life – “the loo and the bookshelf”, but alas not in the same room!

The bed reminds of that Verlinden vignette “What did you do in the war daddy?”

Must be the local music teachers house.

Still needs the outside perimeter wall to be completed.

“Ruba dub dub”!

The remains of the local children’s playground with grannies rocking chair.

Nineteen now left to finish and less than two weeks to go!

The second gun in the troop.

Tomorrow – you guessed it the third gun in the troop!

Throughout history armed forces have had medical services of some sort. The tradition stands true today with the military combat medic who goes into battle alongside soldiers of their company aiming to stabilise, give comfort and help evacuate.

The availability of persons skilled in the treatment of wounds improves the morale of fighting men, giving rise to a more efficient and motivated fighting force.

Tomorrow more of the 2/7th Field Artillery

This is the second M3A1 Scout car for use by the Australian 2/7th Field Artillery Troop

Today we have the Lieutenant’s support team, which is a mixture of various specialists formed as a rifle section that could both support the gunners but also replace any crews that have suffered casualties.

This post was not meant to go live yet but it has. I am in the process of building three Australian Support Teams – Machinegun, Field Artillery and a Mortar platoons. As the title suggests this is a support team for the 2/7th Field Artillery. More on the 2/7th in a couple of weeks.

Although the PIAT was the official infantry anti-tank ordnance, it was rarely used by the Australians in the Pacific. Not because tanks were not often faced, although this was true, but because the US Bazooka was more powerful, easy to obtain and had no spring mechanism to dislocate your shoulder.

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