I have made some more progress with the US airborne.
Finally finished painting all the gloves.
That’s 150 plus sets of gloves.. except the radio operators who only wear one glove.
Boots on the ground
Some progress.
Michaels painting gymnastics has spurred me on to paint some more myself.
I had been a bit lax between my boys needs, us having colds, preparing for Christmas.. those cakes don’t make themselves and I had been feeling a bit off and had terrible shaking hands latley.
Anyways…
The new 0.5mm airbrush needle and nozzel arrived from Ophiir and will use that later on the tanks.
I have made some progress with the static grass applicator… just need to finish it.
Finished painting the brown on wood and boots and helmet straps.
Alot of overpaint at this stage.. but he helmets get a paint of Olive drab and that leaves the brown helmet straps which looks real cool.
There is no leggings on these guys .. so boots are painted right up to the trousers.
The face is the only part painted in flesh tone as they wear yellow nubuck leather gloves. Thats the next stage.
Metal is being painted black so thats why alot of overpaint onthe guns occours.. which is cool because faces are usually real hard to paint when there up close to guns… no problem this way.
anyhow the pics..
These look rough.. but when finished will look great… just wait and see.
Fallschirmjaeger lefh18 10.5cm howitzers
Bought these quite a while ago but have been sitting in my cupboard since. Anyway every game since when I’ve fielded by FJ (which admittedly isn’t all that much) I’ve reflected on the howitzers and pak40’s that are sitting in the cupboard and wishing I’d painted them to use. And now, the howitzers at least, are painted. Was a bit of a rush job, for me a least as a lot of my pieces have been in recent times, roughly a week.
