Author: Mars Mullo

Ok I have started my 2 company boxes of US infantry.

I have cleaned them and glued them to card, undercoated them primer black with colorkote spray paint, which works wonderfully well.

I have painted the boot brown and now am painting the gaters and jacket.

I have started painting them my usual way that I use with germans in field grey.

That is I paint only the high spots in colour, followed by a lighter high light and then an ink wash.

I have tried this so far with th exception of removing the high light untill after the ink and replacing the high light application with a dry brush instead.

Now faced with about 80+ figures I have been contemplating taking a “short-cut”.

Tell me which one you think will look better in the table top.

Model A

or

Model B

Yup.. got carried away and completed a heap of the fiddly stuff on the Pathers tonight.

Anyways I painted the two commanders and tried to paint pea dot  painjackets on them.

It kinda looks right but also looks a little dark.. more like falklands war British paras jackets.. but I was happy all the same.

So here is the eye candy…

The panzergrenadier Kompany has some additions.

The three HQ group Half tracks were airbrushed.  I like the pattern on these. They look very close to the first batch of  9 halftracks.

They have plastic wheels and tracks..which look better. The mg’s are better too.

And I have crudley camofalged the 2cm AA guns on armoured halftracks.

Great liitlle vehicles for clearing the flanks of infantry attacks and surprises.

But honestly a Armour of 0 isn’t much help in late war.

Anyways.. pictures as per usual.  (New camera too.. a 10 megapixel set at the low setting for email images… should look goo. I still prefer teh super macro setting on my earlier Cannon Powershot.. this new one is a bit tinney)

I intend to ass foliage camoflage to these… o that should hide some small mistakes.