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October 15, 2014October 15, 2014

Boots on the ground

Boots on the ground….

A nice name for the operation currently on my painting bench.

152 figures to paint, seven Sherman tanks and 8 x 75mm pack howitzers

To date I have made some nice progress.

Stripping all the figures was a mixed bag.
Most stripped like dream.
Half the guns and some of the figures had a very thick dark green enamel oil based paint and that took not just simple green but the brass wire brush to get that off.

The guns had alot of super glue and blue tack on them and that was covering up good detail but holding it together remarkably well.

I cleaned this all off and I drilled the gun bearing and pinned the barrel to the carriage… which looks great. I used a small amount of green stuff to stick the gun barrel angle covered with a minute amount of super glue. So those are now finished and ready for priming.

Meanwhile the figures were all glued to card and primed with KearKote(TM) black metal primer and they look good.

Some parts were missing and I easily managed to get some replacement parts from Battlefront who are just totally awesome to deal with when you need some parts replaced. I really do love dealing with them for my miniatures.

I then went to base coat the airborne in their distinctive colour. I mixed Tamiya German Grey a little bit into Kahki and got a good colour. This was airbrushed on to the figures and they look great.

After setting I have then started painting colour by applying brown. This is painted onto the boots, guns, shovel handles and the helmet strap. The helmet strap is important as when you paint later in Olive drab (OD) you just brush each side of the strap and it leaves a crisp strap in brown.. which shows up alot when viewed from above.

some pics for you.

October 2, 2014September 16, 2015

Fallschirmjaeger StG 44

I painted these a few months ago, probably my best painted FJ so far.

Back when I originally bought my Fallschirmjaeger you could buy blisters of Sturmgewehr wielding troops and I think you could even field them (though I never had them painted to get that far). Anyway as the rules have been rewritten these guys have fallen by the wayside. Ideally I should have sprinkled them amongst my platoons but they’re painted and based and I didn’t really feel like breaking them off to do it. So I now have six stands (The command stand was painted with them but belongs to something else) of models with StG 44’s in two poses with a handful of flame throwers, a panzerknacker and an fg42 which some how made it into the blister. I don’t really have a use for them since I have three full platoons of FJ anyway, but at least now they’re painted.

September 29, 2014March 8, 2015

Potts Panzergrenadiers

Whilst visiting for a gaming weekend prior to my birthday Mike bought me a birthday cake and some vouchers. When he was forced to leave early to return home he left his FOW panzergrenadier and us airborne companies. With Martin having organised to paint up the airborne I grabbed the german stuff (also took the stuarts and the m8) in order to paint as a gesture of thanks.

The stuarts and m8 were kinda caked in thick bright mid green paint so I tossed them in some greenstuff. When they came out the two remaining .50cals broke off, I looked at fixing or replacing these but gave up on the idea. The mount needed bored out again and the resin proved a bit to brittle. One hatch door was missing so, a 37mm main gun. I replaced the gun with a bit of brass rod and moved one of the hatch doors around and closed them so the commander was the only model with open doors or in this case open door. I primed them matt black enamel (spray can) and then airbrushed khaki green. Wasn’t happy with the colour so sprayed over with a dark green. Washed with brown wash and painted tracks GW scorched brown, drybrushed GW codex grey.

Stugg’s, Tiger, Halftrack and Kfz 17s. These were unpainted and just required some disassembly in order to paint them (taking tracks off essentially). Again primed matt black enamel and then airbrused tamiya dark yellow (as opposed to tamiya desert yellow). Next painted on the camo scheme, a couple of patches where the brush sputtered and made little mistakes but nothing that couldn’t be fixed. I always find painting camo nerve wracking I’m so worried that I’m ruining a decent model, it feels wrong and often a first glance it looks wrong. After I was done I washed them with Agrax Earthshade (GW brown wash). I really needed to water this down or put a bit of floor polish in it because this applied quite a strong brown filter to the yellow which looked proper tan coloured when it dried. To rectify this and any mistakes with the airbrush I drybrused dark yellow carefully around the camo scheme. Once satisfied with the finish I then drybrushed some light bleached bone picking up the edges (this seems to have mostly disappeared after varnishing). Painted tracks GW scorched brown, drybrushed GW codex grey.

The infantry I snapped off their bases and thinking them cleaned up after a cursory look I primed them. Painted some with camo smocks and some with fieldgrey. Not much else to really. I found that they weren’t cleaned and had some horrible flashing and mold lines. I painted over most and cut away the worst but I was trying to bang these out in good time some wasn’t keen to start over on them. In the end I don’t think they’re too obvious. Other thing of note is that one stand and a couple of other guys look to be some other manufacturers (ie not battlefront) russians instead of germans.

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