The Rat Patrol

 When I was a wee lad, I was a HUGE fan of The Rat Patrol TV series. So when I saw there were miniatures made of them by Company B miniatures, I obviously had to pick them up... 

It looks like they made jeeps specific for them, but somehow that is not what I ended up with (perhaps they made them sometime after they made the miniatures?) Instead I got a pair of SAS jeeps. 

It had been a toss up between regular jeeps (which I recall the jeeps in the TV series looking like) or something a LITTLE more like actually deep desert raiders and went with the SAS jeeps. 

Then I was kind of torn about how to PAINT them. SAS jeeps were tan or sand (or pink?) in colour. The jeeps in the Rat Patrol were just regular army green... I'd originally painted them a tan colour. But when I dug them out last week to paint up and was looking for photo references for the uniforms, I realized the jeeps were green, so I went with that. 

the uniforms worn in the TV series do not entirely match with these and it's hard to tell what colour they actually were as they look like wildly different shades of tan or khaki, depending on the photo... I just went with a mix of different tans and khakis trying to hit a medium between actual uniforms work by troops in North Africa and something like the TV series...?

I guess the TV series wasn't SUPER concerned with depicting actual uniforms and equipment worn, so I shouldn't get to wound up about it either... 

I'm not entirely sure when or how I'm going to make use of these... around the time I bought these (which was more than a few years ago, now!) I also picked up the complete Rat Patrol series on DVD, thinking I could mine the episodes for ideas for scenarios!? 

I also have a BUNCH of other SAS and LRDG vehicles in varying states of completeness, from have-not-touched-them to 99%-done-why-the-fuck-didn't-I-just-finish-them-off!? Not thrilled with the Desert yellow I used on two of them. Perhaps that's what stalled them... 

Kind of want to finish THOSE up now... but also, not so sure what I'd use them for...? Or what rules to use...? (I haven't really read through the vehicle rules in Five Men at Kursk, yet...) 

I feel like the times they were used in action was driving up air strips shooting up parked aircraft... and I just do not have that many aircraft to set out on a table - that that would be FUN, I think it would be prohibitively expensive to do... (there HAD been a series of aircraft toys at a local discount store that were close to 1/48 scale and I will forever kick myself for not having just bought them all!? Of course, at that time the only World War Two stuff that I had was in 15mm and 20mm... so...)

I have a few stacks of barrels and crates, I guess... could try driving up and shooting those up before sentries rouse the other guards and shoot the fleeing jeeps... not quite the same... 

Any ideas? 

What could the rat patrol or my SAS/LRDG trucks be used for on the table top!? 

I do have a smattering of German Afrika Korps and Italians! Most of those still need painting as well, though.