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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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Tiger IE

Tiger IE

Starting to run out of photos, will have to take some more.

This is my first german tank I painted, many years ago.  This was taken before I took the picture of the diorama in which the same tank appears.  For that I touched it up as bits of paint had chipped and highlighted a little more and weathered some more.  I really need to get some decals for it to properly finish it and some varnish probably wouldn’t go a miss.  Pictured here showing it’s rear since  already have a photo the reverse angle.