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March 7, 2013March 10, 2013

Jagdpanzer iv/70 – speed build

Ok here is a very long artical about a very quick build.

I recorded how long I worked on these models.. not in one continuous activity but in snippets of work.

SO here goes

11:50 unpack blisters

The 5 tanks in blisters.. these are OOP now.

Cleaning up the parts of flash
11:37 clean tracks

11:45
After washing then drying them in the sun on a towel.

12:15
Priming the tracks.
Note I did not prime the hulls because the resin is dark grey and this saves time.

12:30 – 1:00
Base coating in dukelgelb with airbrush

Base coating the hulls

1:25 – 1:45
Gluing on the tracks to the hulls

1:25 – 1:30
Using a template mask to paint the green camouflage but only on the hull and not on the road wheels.

Green on

Brown on
1:30 finish

2:30 – 3:10 – painting tracks

Hatches on
7:00 – 8:30 — painting tracks and fluffing around with fix ups and barrel painting and magnets
9:00 am next morning — 9:45 detailing

Gluing on magnets for holding the barrels

Fitting barrels and fixing he weak set. The magnets were too small for he weight of the barrels

6:45pm — 7:00 pm green stuff barrels.

Still some stuff to go… but otherwise looks like it has taken 5hrs50 mins
That’s an average of 1 hour and ten minutes each.

November 14, 2011September 16, 2015

Konigstigers and the Paasche Talon Airbrush

This is my first real attempt at airbrushing my models. That is to say with the exception of an F4 Phantom that I airbrused when I was about fifteen and a couple of evenings mucking around with Martin’s airbrush, this is my first attempt. So not really my first attempt at all then.

Anyway having recieved the Paasche Talon Airbrush set (http://www.chicagoairbrushsupply.com/patastsetg1.html) for which a good review for the Talon itself can be found here http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3675 this was my first crack at using it apart from spraying a bit of paint and water on a piece of card. So naturally I chose two of my most expensive flames of war models to start with. To be fair these have been sitting around for a while because I wanted to airbrush the camo scheme on them rather than attempt to paint it on with a real brush, so they were in part why I got the airbrush. Still I probably should have practiced a little more.

Base coating the dunkelgelb was fantastic. So much so I’ve since basecoated some warhammer stuff. So much faster than using a brush and a better finish. I notice base coating stuff gives me the opportunity to practice with the brush a little controlling the flow of paint etc. After the yellow I painted on the green and brown. I’ m pretty happy with it. There are a couple of areas where I’ve got a bit of water spray (which wasn’t moisture I just had quite thin paint and allowed it to dump a bit much of it on the model in one spot, it’s this bit I need to get better at most of all).

Not totally sure where to go from here, whether I try to fix up the couple of splatters with more yellow with the airbrush or some careful paint brush work, inks and drybrushing. At any rate I’m reasonably happy with how they turned out and with the airbrush too.

October 10, 2011December 13, 2011

A call to all Generals

Had a very short discussion with Michael on Sunday and described my idea of following on from our Firestorm Market Garden Weekend, that I would like to host a Battel of the Bulge… or Bastogne weekend.

Now even though the Axis side won last game… this does still make it fit nicley into the next big event in Late war… of course a Hurtgen Forrest would be great… but lets not forget that was a very very bloody battle zone.

Any how… Thought I might put togehter a custom map.. get it printed and play the same set up as last time… with a few tweeks.

Now be yee oportunity… to have ye say in such said matters …

Speak now… please.

Intended time is late february next year. Can be earlier.
At this stage all required figures are availabel except for…
Armoured panzergrenadiers
German rafts
USA AA
German light IG’s
USA recon
USA Airborne Mortars
USA Tank hunters (complete)

All senarios played as snow even if terrain is distinctivly summer like out side. You see I am trying tom make the table weather the opposite of what is actually outside vis a vi last game day snow up to your elbows outside.)

Need.. anything german, anything USA. Esp US airborne and german motor or panzer grenadier. Can use BR m2/3 half tracks as captured vehicles for germans.

26. Volksgrenadier
28th Division USA
44th Engineer Battalion
110th Infantry

VIII Corps

10th Armored Division (United States)
3rd Tank Battalion,
20th Armored Infantry Battalion,
C Company 21st Tank Battalion,
B Company 54th Armored Infantry Battalion,
C Company 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion,
420th Armored Field Artillery Battalion,
and three companies of support troops

SHAEF reserve

82nd Airborne
101st Airborne
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR)
506th PIR,
502nd PIR,
327th Glider Infantry
Kampfgruppe Peiper
Panzer-Lehr-Division
2. Panzerdivision

The map we may use — Type of map be may be using

Air drops and suport still option… but may have a reserve/weather timing thing.

101st Airborne troops picking up air-dropped supplies during the siege.