After a little umming and arring, about what force to take, I decided to keep it simple and run a Tank Company. More about the 'tournament' in a following blogpost...
After sorting my force, I had a spare 10pts to use up, and just about the only thing I could add was a Bergepanzer III recovery vehicle to the HQ... but I didn't have a suitable model...
A quick look on the BF website, and I couldnt find one there either? So I decided to try and knock one up myself...
A quick bit of googling later I had found that the Bergepanzer III, was based on a Panzer III chassis/hull, with the turret removed and an open topped compartment mounted on the superstructure. Several images from the web gave me enough to work with...
So...
I took one of my existing Panzer III's ( from Plastic Soldier Company), and lifted off the turret and set to work, with plasticard, plastic rod, left over stowage bits and bobs, spare wheels etc from other plastic PSC kits, and some fuse wire, and matchsticks...
| Panzer III H, Plastic Soldier Company |
| Lift off turret... |
| Add recovery vehicle superstructure... |
| And paint it up... voila! |
| A blob of blu-tac holds structure in place... |
The recovery structure lifts off so the turret can be replaced if I still need to use the tank properly, though with a total of 15 Panzer IIIs in my collection I am not sure I will ever need that many...
So the Bergepanzer gives me a useful tool, if I get other tanks bogged down... and its also a medium tank hull with a machine gun. It is classed as an independent team, and cannot assault and must break off if assaulted. Nor can it take or contest an objective...
Still, not a bad little addition to my force...