Club Med: Sand, Sea, Sunshine... and Bullets!


Operational Overview

This campaign will run for 6 months, from 1 June 2006 - 31 December 2006.

The focus of this campaign will be the Middle East & Mediterranean theatres of battle of World War II, and the men, women and equipment that gallantly took part therein.

Herewith follows a list of British campaigns and key battles which should provide a good starting point for participants:

- Abyssinia 1940-41: Keren, Amba Alagi, The Juba, Gondar
- British Somaliland 1940
- Iraq 1941
- Syria 1941: Damascus, Damour
- North Africa 1940-43: Sidi Barrani, Bardia, Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Gazala, Mersah Matruh, Alamein Line, Alam El Halfa, El Alamain, Medenine, Mareth, Tebaga Gap, Wadi Akarit, Enfidaville, Tebourba Gap, Bou Aradi, Kasserine, Fondouk, Oued Zarga, El Kourzia, Medjez plain, Tunis
- Sicily 1943: Landings in Sicily, Adrano
- Italy 1943-45: The Sangro, Salerno, Naples, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Garagliano Crossing, Anzio, Cassino, Liri Valley, Rome, Trasimene Line, Arezzo, Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Lamone Crossing, Rimini Line, The Senio, Argenta Gap, Bologna
- Greece 1941: Mount Olympus
- Greece 1944-45
- Middle East 1941-44: Crete 1941, Malta 1940-42


The Rules and Regs
This is a general modelling campaign, therefore all relevant genres (i.e. Armour, Aircraft, Figures, Softskins and Maritime) and scales will be accepted. The key point here is the word "relevant". The troops, armour, aircraft, etc must have taken part in the theatre/campaign depicted. The campaign leader reserves the right to request a participant to justify their entry or entries.

Contest Element
Participants may enter as many relevant entries as they so with, provided the entry is completed during the time period.

For their efforts, partipants will be awarded a nifty piece of cyber-ribbon to add to their collections and show off to friends and family.


Click HERE to enlist!

Any more takers?

So far we have 28 participants:

bgazso
Clanky44
eMan
emroglan
ericadeane
erichvon
generalzod
GI_Babycakes
IdiotStick
JimF
Joker
kilntime
Lucky
luftwaffle
markm
Merlin
ModelCitizen
MonkeyGun
Pedro
sahariana
Savage
siegmund
Tarok
TedMamere
WARLORD
WildCard
WingTzun
wombatq


Don't forget you can also model Operation 'Dragoon' - the invasion of the south of France...

Rudi, is it just my computer, or is this campaign not visible under "Campaigns"? Few days ago, it was standing there in the second slot, with "Rest of the World M113s" in the first slot above, but now both seem to be gone.

I'm definitely in and thinking of building something rather not common(like a desert Sherman or Grant/Lee). Must our builds be straight-on combatants or are support vehicles allowed? (I'm thinking about Tamiya's Quad Gun Tractor, that's why I'm asking)

Hi Emre,

As this is a "General Modeling" campaign (i.e cross genre), it appears under the campaign roster on ModelGeek.

Non-combatant's are more than welcome - As long as it appeared in the Med theatre.

Rudi

OK, then I'm in with my Tamiya Quad Gun Tractor belonging to the English 8th Army, during the North African "adventure". I'm planning to begin in two weeks. If I can find a suitable gun to tow, I will attach that to the tractor also. Should be done and done within the summer.

The Tamiya kit seems like an easy build. Hope it stays that way, old Tamiya kits are so unpredictable...

Looking forward to go for it!

Forgive my ignorance Tarok, but I want to make sure my model is acceptable before entering this campaign. It is an Messerschmitt Bf109E-4/7 which opperated in North Africa in 1941 supporting Rommel's Africa Corps. The plane and decals are from this period. Hope this one is acceptable

100% my friend.

Now there's 29 of us. Along "fighters under the midnight sun", this will be an ideal way start building again when I get back from the army in early July.
I already have one kit build for it, Dragon's Panzer I Ausf.B (DAK). As the kit comes with bonus figures, I'll probably build a small diorama with the DAK soldiers having a break near the tank.