US Infantry Companies X 2 2nd Lot Part 1

Gee .. if you managed to get past the title then the rest will be a breeze.

I started painting my 2nd Lot of tow US infantry companies.

This lot will be different however.  They will include HBT or Heering Bone Twill uniforms, which use the Olive Green colour in place of Olive drab trousers or Buff coloured wool twill shirts.

No immediate pictures at present as I have only painted some of the Buff coloured Jackets and all the brown Boots.

I will post edit this later when I can show you some comparrison photos f the two uniform styles.

I havn’t flocked the bases of the first lot yet as I am going to make a presentation board and harmonize the whole lot.

As I will probalby play these guys in atournament one day… cheezy list with four -five platoons of infantry..

Being

Core platoons of infantry… 1,2 and 3.  Plus 1 Ammunition Plt, and a Ranger platoon. Possibly a scout patoon as well.

Luckily enough  have spare US infantry soldiers froman online auction which allows me to make a scout platoon which has only 7 stands as opposed to 11 in a standard platoon.  Oh the Ragers field 7 as well.  thats 54 stands.

Hows your Russian hordes looking Potts?

EDIT:  20/09/2010

Have painted the trousers on half of the figs. The jackets are all done.  I have kahki trousers and HBT trouserd painted.

The HBT trousers and shirts require  dry brush to ping the colour.

The Kahki coloured jackets only require a subdue inking.

All going well this will be done tonight. Buy the end of this week I should have all the webbings painted and will be ready for the painting of rifles, followed by flesh and finally the helemets.

Eta three weeks.. theni willhave four platoons of US infantry.. cool!

P.S I have a box set of A Bridge Too far Firestorm now.  Cool….  so start painting your king tigers and UK airbourne units.

EDIT:

Ok ok ok!

Here some photos showing the three unform combinations I am using.

EDIT:

OK I have now completed all the clothing and the flesh, guns and the like. Have the bazooka’s, Radio packs and Helmets to paint yet.

Oh and also the inking and dry brushing to the finish is needed.

Anyways on to the photos.

Edit 05/10/2010
Finished painting colour on the US Infantry troops last night.
Toniaght I spray paint matt varnish. Wednesday I may peel them from thier card temporary bases, because all thier base now belong to me. LOL

And then I will reinstate them to a real plastic base and coulsd possibly get the plaster laid around them.

Then I will be cleaning and undercoating two HMG platoons.

Hey have any of you read the FOW Big War PDF?

Edit: 06/10/2010
Further progress last night. I sprey painted the infantry with the matt varnish .. ther all set for the next finishing phases.

I also “found” a late war infantry platoon amoung my US infnatry… they are the new sculpts from Battlefront and quiet frankly I don’t like them.. they look like scarecrows.. they hae actual scale and need a little more heric scaling to them.

Also I cleaned up the HMG’s and crew and they are all stuck to card with PVA for priming. Ther isn’t as many as when I painted the last two platoon which was 98 figures.. after counting , I was surprised!

So I might add in the US paras tht I have and paint them too… which should be easy as ther whole uniform is the same colour… a read dipping army if ever I saw one.

Plus some other loose US infantry… So I will have enough for 3 combat platoons a A&E platoon and a Rangers platoon. Also I have another 10 bazookas on the way and a Weapons platoon which has 3 x 60mm mortars and 4 30 cal LMG’s.

Should have enough spares to make up a scout platoon… as well.

Edit: 08/10/2010 : FIxed the soldiers to bases last night. Have some more to go and then plastering of bases to start.

9 Replies to “US Infantry Companies X 2 2nd Lot Part 1”

  1. Maybe all this snow has caved in our houses and we can’t get any smoke signals out… lack of fire wood perhaps..
    Can I suggest you do what the early whalers did in antarctica… .” throw another king penguin on the fire.”

  2. They look really really good. I feel embarrassed I have done nothing really.
    I was away in Melbourne and then had a cold when I got back which meant I didn’t feel like doing much.
    Managed to assemble glue and putty a couple of orc characters for wh fantasy. And thats been it.

  3. As I have found out rcently.. you need but do a small amount of work every two or three days and then that work added to the odd day in a weekend wher you do power thrugh teh work makes things just fly buy.

    I’m looking forward to starting the two HMG platoons next. Then the 105mm howitzers which will bea nice break considering ther is some gun carriages to assemble.

    Then 3 x Thunderbolts to paint.. that will probably be about Christmas time. Which means I will havea 1500 point army list with some minor fix ups to the sherman tanks already painted and the M10 Tank hunters. Nice balanced list.

    Take on your FJ I should?

  4. sure.
    Now that I have both Fortress Europe and Hells Highway I can put together an FJ build and no how many points it comes too.
    I think to be able to field a competitive force though I need to
    finish off my mortar observers and command (half done probably only a few nights work if that)
    paint my third combat/pioneer/assualt platoon
    paint my hmg platoon

    This can then be bulked out with a couple of marders, a couple of tigers and some air support
    If I had time I might paint up the pak40’s but I doubt I’d get there.

    I notice in all the fj lists not one has rules for using the stg44’s, annoyed at that
    So in protest I don’t think I’ll paint them. That’ll learn battlefront.

  5. Stg 44’s should be an option for your scout platoons.
    My wermacht can upgrade in both the assault and scout platoons to stg44.
    The Aufkerlangshammerdam company gets them dam well as basic fit out I remember.

    Say can your cromwell or UK armoured company take US airbourne as a Divisional support?

    If so I havea spare platoon… needs some LMG’s to add tot he bases though.. ther is a Weapons platoon 8 x .30 cal LMG’s

    There easy to paint because the whole damn uniform is hte same colour. How cool is that? Coming off the back of painting splinter pattern it would be like sucking on an ice cube.

  6. Yeah well go figure. It’s rubbish but there you go. No assault rifles for me. 🙁

    Well the Hells Highway book which has XXX corp guards armoured company’s can take US airborne, not sure about any of the others off the top of my head.

  7. Umm have you tries using the artical or Spotlight links from the FJ on the online shop.. they may link you to the army lists and books htey are relevant to.

  8. PS lookedat the links etc.. it seems that FJ where equiped with thier own special firearms and the smg and Assault rifle.
    As the FOW rules run from Rifle, rifle/mg and MG ratings… becasue your platoons havea mix of weapons with theAssault rifles you stay at rifle/mg rating.

    Although the Wermacht assault rifle platoon has 1/3 LMG sqauds and the rest are stg 44 and they retain rof 3 range 20cm(?) and the move while fire ability.

    Your right it seems unfair. Or could the points cost be too high (FV) recon plt, assault rifle. Would be preety darn powerfull.

    Becasue you would get cautouse movement rule, eyes and ears and break off ability.

    So to be able to sneek up then move fully fire full ROF 3 from 7 teams (21 shots) then stormtrooper away is great.
    And becasue yuo shoot at ROF weather you move or not I don’t think you have to reduce your ROF to 1 prior to and assault either… now that is even better!!! charge in FV against a confident trained US infantry you would probably win easily.. except for the US automatic rifle rule which allows any misses in DF to be rerolled.. but I think that doesn’t work if they are pinned. And with 21 shots vs 10 bases.. you havea good cance of doing that…

    ut only with your uber STG 44 FJ scout platoon…. which… you can’t have 🙁

    Sorry dude… but hey.. you get coupons for 88 guns. 🙂

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