Reinforcements for North Africa

After the game last week, I broke out my North Africa aircraft. I had a quick game of Check Your Six to get the rules stuck in my head. As I reviewed my aircraft, I started thinking about what I would want to add to my aircraft.

First, I inventoried what I have.

Nation	Aircraft	Painted	Unpainted	Notes
Italy	Cr42	3	6	These were a pain to assemble
Italy	G50bis	6	3	These were simple to paint up.
Italy	SM79	1	7	I copied aircraft with no camo pattern.
Germany	Bf109e Trop	8	16	Simple pattern to paint. Slight megalomania as I wanted a complete Staffel of aircraft.
Germany	Ju87B Trop	3	5	3 of the unpainted really just need markings.
UK	Hurricane Mk1	8	4	Had wanted to do a squadron of these.
UK	Tomahawks	8	4	One of the unpainted has an accidental hole through it.
UK	Spitfire	0	8	These are for later in the war.

So, as you can see, I have a nice selection to start with. But I was lacking some aircraft for some scenarios that I wanted to do. Basically, not enough bombers. So, I went shopping. My Picoarmor order just came in. It is great.

Nation	Aircraft	Numbers	Notes
Italy	Br20	3	Nice clean castings.
Italy	Ba65	8	Neat little aircraft that did not fare well.
Germany	Bf110C	8	These should be fun.
Germany	Ju88A-1	3	Should be a nice little bomber.
UK	Martin Maryland	3	Nice bomber for the Brits
UK	Blenheim IV	3	This was an impulse buy.

I also placed an order with Tumbling Dice. I am waiting on some Blenheim Is, Caparoni 310s and some Hs126s. Now to take some time to paint them. I also checked and I only have 14 flight stands so the possibility of doing larger actions is unlikely.