Italian 132nd Regt Ariete Armoured Division 1942
After the Afrika Corp arrived the Italians decided to ship the entire Ariete Armoured Division to Libya along with a motorised Infantry Division to make XXth Corp. The tank complement for an armoured division by this time consisted of an entire armoured regiment of three tank battalions each of three companies & a small divisional HQ company.
These vehicles are painted to represent the tanks as used from early 1942. It took me a very long time to paint up all these castings & the camouflage scheme made my eyes go funny after a while so I had to paint them in small batches. Each battalion is slightly different because I decided to place the company markings in different yet historic positions depending on the battalion.
Regimental HQ vehicles used White rectangles, the Battalion Reserve Company vehicles used Black rectangles whilst each battalion followed the normal marking system that had been in place since before WW2.
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