Progress. 5 Panthers have been air brushed.
I am NOT happy with the airbrush pattern and also I it is a bit wide. The application is heavy too. This is because my air brush had a tiny little leak in the rubber washer between the needle cone and air body. Thus it was hardly drawing any paint. And when it id di it was full bore.
The brown colour drew better however after I fixed the problem.
Any ways… onto the show.
I don’t know if you know this or not?
My German infantry or grenadiers army is based on the 331st Inf Div in history. The vehicles have the 331st marking on them. But realistically there is nothing to different on the infantry models to separate them from being anything different. I do however have some custom 210mm french captured mortars for the 33st which they used in Belorussia or Russia when they were on the Eastern front prior to being pulled to Normandy to refit.. which they then ended up fighting the Americans mostly in and around Caen before the Falise gap dwindled their numbers.
So yesterday I bought two company boxes of US infantry for he price of one. And i have become fond of the number 331 in my infantry.. so my new US infantry army is the 83rd InF division and my regiment is the 331st. Kind of neat because they fought against the 331st German Inf Div in and around Caen too.
Also check this site.. it is way cool!
Max inf platoon’s in a company are three… but there is both the Engineer and the scouting platoons which are the same so the extra platoon from the second box has a use.
So welcome to my second army….
I’m looking forward to calling in support from my allies with airborne US forces and Tanks.. Mr Potter?
One of my three Sherman Fireflys… fireflies?… VCs. Adds some decent punch to the Cromwell platoons giving me a taste of what it might be like to run proper tanks like the Germans and the Russians. The photo doesn’t look much, actually these closeups of my flames of war stuff are rather disappointing particularly when compared to the Games Workshop stuff. Granted it’s only half the scale but I think I could and should do better, it’s just that it’s not as fun to paint. Anyway, will go back at some point and fix all my british armour up, add stowage and the like and well some more coats of varnish on the tracks.
