Ok so here is some pictures of my latest variation on painting splinter pattern jump smocks. They’re not great photos and the slightly glossy varnish on the older fig’s really doesn’t make them look good, but hopefully you can see the difference in wht I think works out to be a far better final product.
Well done Martin for keeping the site ticking over. I’m so ashamed.
I have not been idle though and have now finished painting (though not basing) my third FJ platoon. Thats 39 FJ dudes all painted and ready to be glued to bases. However I’m now wondering whether I should ….
a) Paint up three Flame Throwers and sub them onto three of the stands and call it a pioneer platoon. Is it worthwhile? Are Flamethrowers all that useful? I can’t even remember the rules for them and I’ve never used them before.
b) With your (Martin) explanation as to why FJ have been robbed of their STG44 stands perhaps I should be painting these up and mixing them into the platoon as well. So instead of having a 9 stands of Rifle/MG’s and 6 stands of STG44’s I could have 14 stands of Rifle/MG/STG44 (albeit counting as Rifle/MG teams) which with the three guys I’d reclaim from sub’ing in the Flamethrowers would give me 2/3 strength 4th platoon with command.
Thoughts?
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.
