WW2 Unit Graphics

[Tanelorn]

Austrian Steyr ADGZ hackjob
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Some were later taken over and used by the SS during the invasion of Poland, the eastern front and the Balkans against partisans.

 

[Fairline]

I drew the ADGZ a year or so ago - maybe I didn't post the updated German collection? Here it is with whatever other additions I've made over the last couple of years

 

[Fairline]

How about these things?

ADGZ - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

OK I've waded back far enough in this thread to this time last year and I did include the Steyr ADGZ on the German compilation. You've outdone yourself this time Patine. Not only are you doing the usual of asking for obscure units to be made, but you've started asking for obscure units that have already been made and posted

I'll leave the compilation above as there are a couple of new additions and tweaks from last time it was posted.

 

[Patine]

OK I've waded back far enough in this thread to this time last year and I did include the Steyr ADGZ on the German compilation. You've outdone yourself this time Patine. Not only are you doing the usual of asking for obscure units to be made, but you've started asking for obscure units that have already been made and posted

I'll leave the compilation above as there are a couple of new additions and tweaks from last time it was posted.

I admit I missed it in the Germann composition. A few things do get by me in your massive, generous spreads, and I'm awaiting an eye eexam, to boot. And, to be honest the request was because it's absense stood out to me in @Tanelorn's recent release (an OCD request, if you will), not because I have any plans for in the foreseeable future.

 

[Tanelorn]

Handley Page Heyford, 125 bombers introduced to the RAF in 1934, declared to be obsolete and retired during July 1939, although some soldiered on in secondary duties up to 1941.

 

[Tanelorn]

Heinkel He 114 sesquiplane seaplane (1939-1945) that preceeded the Ar 196. Also served with Sweden up to 1949, Spain up to 1954 and Romania up to 1960, in small numbers.

 

[Tanelorn]

Sweden WW2 @Fairline mods updated with boaties. Their coastal defence battleships are light cruisers in dispacement with big guns. Ornen class torpedo cruisers are too small, destoyer escorts at best, all suitable for the conditions in the baltic sea. The Vultee Vanguard was ordered but delivery was embargoed. They had actually adopted a brown uniform with kepis in the 20s but switched to this one just prior to the start of WW2. And again, thanks to @typhoon353 for the three crown insignia.

 

[Tanelorn]

WW2 era Turkey. A mix of gear from all sides. Now, I had to go through old photos and Pathe videos for some of the artiliery, so some of it is up for interpretation. I dont know how many Deacons they got and I have found mention of 25 pdr field arty but no dates, numbers or pictures. Same for 20 and 37mm AA guns.
Note to self: Skoda Ks.

 

[Tanelorn]

WW2 era Portugal. Lots of WW1 legacy Brit gear, allignment prior to 1944: complicated. The standard combat uniforms that the Portuguese Army in the 1930s was almost the same as their WW1 era uniform when they entered the war on the side of Entente in 1915. The shade of the field uniform looked like the French horizon azure but followed British patterns and webbing.
As for the headwear in the 1930s there were either the British made Mk.1 Brodie helmets and a commercial version of the Mk.1 that had distinctive grilles on the bowl and it was slightly taller. All of these helmets were used until the 1940s when they were superseded by the M40, an Italian style helmet (not identical). In the 1940s the Portuguese Army went though an overhaul period completely changing their uniforms and webbing to a British battledress pattern in the same colour. The volunteers that served in Spain had their own uniforms that were in style to what the other Nationalist forces would have worn during that time.
It is noteworthy that from 1943, Portugal's Salazar Fascist government made a complete 180 turn and leased the Azores bases to the British, while previously they had only allowed German U-boats and navy ships to refuel there.
Some colonial troops, mostly Angolans, even in Portuguese India.

Douro class DD, Yarrow design (A/B class equivalent). Five built in Lisbon for Portugal, two more exported to Colombia.

 

[Tanelorn]

Iran and Afghanistan during WW2 rehash with some additions.
Iran was planning to produce Czech tanks etc. before the Nazis took the Czechs out and later Iran got double-teamed by the Brits and Soviets in less than a week.
Afghanistan was courted by the failed painter, even dubbed "Prussians of the east" (as a compliment?) but the old king knew better.