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FJ Progress

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?

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Dr Who & Fallschirmjaeger Mortar Team

Dr Who (David Tennant)
This is what I spent the last few days of last week working on.  My Dr Who, David Tennant figure.  He’s 28mm scale, fortunately the same size as all my WH stuff.  He was quite easy to paint except for the coat.  Leprous Brown is essentially a dirty yellow and as a consequence is a right annoyance to paint.  I did a pretty rubbish job on it and had to give up when I realised I was starting to fill in the folds in the coat.  Otherwise though I’m pretty happy with him.  Basecoated him in scorched brown which worked well (though not as well as I’d hoped for the coat).  Did the base with green stuff which I scoured into a kinda cobblestone pattern.  All in all a reasonably successful effort I feel.

Fallschirmjaeger Stummelwerfer Team
Oh and this was supposed to be a series of four shots two from in front and two from behind of my 6 FJ mortar teams, however the others were blurry, so I’ll have to redo them.  In the meantime here is the back of one of the teams.

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.

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2cm FlaK38’s

2cm FlaK38 Anti-aircraft Guns

These are my FlaK38’s (minus the command team) that I finished off last week.  The guns themselves were painted with Martin’s airbrush about a year ago?  but have only now finished them off painted the crew and based them.  Pretty happy with my work on the camo smocks for these guys, the combat platoons (of which I have no photos yet) are a realm mismatch with me trying different techniques and even colours.  They’re far from perfect but they’re certainly adequate.  I’ve also continued my theme of painting the bread bags ‘luftwaffe blue’ (highlighted to a considerably bright pale shade) because well I think it makes them stand out even if they’re a bit bluer than they probably should be.  Must be my background in painting fantasy figures that makes me want to do that.