Two more tanks off the ranks. Bought from toyworld where they were selling them about half price (clearing out their stock, again). Since I needed a fourth anyway as some lists require four rather than three which was what I had. Got the extra one because…. well you can’t really have enough light tanks, they always have served me well. Anyway now I have five, painted in three batches so all a bit different but not to worried. These were painted I think using Russian Green (surprising I can’t recall was only a week ago), I then gave them a bit of a wash with black, green and brown, (just trying to work out what looked best, for what it’s worth green wash is too bright, brown is good and dirty looking, what doesn’t devlan mud work with? and black looks grimey though can be a bit harsh, if I was doing it again I’d probably do two brown washes or a mix of brown and black). After that I mixed painting on and drybrushing more russian green (or whatever green I was using) just to smooth out the areas where the wash shouldn’t be. Drybrushed a little black in areas and khaki to simulate dust and grime. Tracks were german grey, with black wash and then german grey again with a little bit of khaki drybrushed on later. Anyway they’re ok. Did photograph all five together but I mis-focussed and picked up the rear tank which mean the majority of the photo was out of focus. I’ll redo it later.
Oh one other thing, I used a pencil to go over a lot of the metal bits (which I accidentally painted over some of). Like the guy did on his terrain building site. Worked really well, a lot more subtle than metallic paint.
The US airbourne can take a light tank brigade as divisional support. Cool thing is they come in platoons of 5. Looks like an option for you in April… 5 stuarts vs 600 points of enemy infantry… you can’t tell me that isn’t fun?
How convenient. Oh I don’t know, might depend on how many panzershrecks and panzerfausts or bazookas they are toting and what their rating is.