Currently I’m painting an Ork Defkopta, though Saturday night I spent time cleaning and assembling my Tiger 2s. Look great, sadly ran out of paint when I was undercoating them so will have to come back to them.
Dr Who & Fallschirmjaeger Mortar Team
Sherman VC (Firefly)
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.
M5 Halftrack
One of ten or so M5 Halftracks to transport my two motor platoons around. They look cool barreling across the table but generally I’m to scared to use them particularly effectively. The round taken to drop off their troops along with the rest of the time on the table top exposed to artillery and everything else with with a reasonable sized gun gives me the willies, and I don’t mean of the jeep variety. Only two of my models have the machine gun ring so as to denote them as the lead vehicle. The british don’t seemed to have bothered to fit MG’s to most of their M5’s or at least that’s Battlefronts belief. Pity as that might encourage me to keep them on the field rather than scuttling off at the first opportunity, often dumping their troops without even moving. meh they’re reluctant, they’re allowed to be a pack of pansies but still, aside from a modeling exercise they’re not particularly effective. Used Micro Sol to apply the decals, awesome stuff in making the decal conform to the hinges and creases on the bonnet. Can’t recommend the stuff highly enough.