Progress. 5 Panthers have been air brushed.
I am NOT happy with the airbrush pattern and also I it is a bit wide. The application is heavy too. This is because my air brush had a tiny little leak in the rubber washer between the needle cone and air body. Thus it was hardly drawing any paint. And when it id di it was full bore.
The brown colour drew better however after I fixed the problem.
Any ways… onto the show.
Painted pretty early on (when spellsingers were called mages) this was for a long time my best painted model. Using the GW colour scheme for the model but with a limited palette, like no bleached bone type colour, made for a lot of experimenting. Still it came out ok even though the skin is a bit dark for an elf. I really like the model, even quite like my paint job. For ages it was my only mage in the wood elf army which was kinda problematic as I really didn’t like fielding mounted mages, I still don’t so now days he’s consigned to the cupboard.
I don’t know if you know this or not?
My German infantry or grenadiers army is based on the 331st Inf Div in history. The vehicles have the 331st marking on them. But realistically there is nothing to different on the infantry models to separate them from being anything different. I do however have some custom 210mm french captured mortars for the 33st which they used in Belorussia or Russia when they were on the Eastern front prior to being pulled to Normandy to refit.. which they then ended up fighting the Americans mostly in and around Caen before the Falise gap dwindled their numbers.
So yesterday I bought two company boxes of US infantry for he price of one. And i have become fond of the number 331 in my infantry.. so my new US infantry army is the 83rd InF division and my regiment is the 331st. Kind of neat because they fought against the 331st German Inf Div in and around Caen too.
Also check this site.. it is way cool!
Max inf platoon’s in a company are three… but there is both the Engineer and the scouting platoons which are the same so the extra platoon from the second box has a use.
So welcome to my second army….
I’m looking forward to calling in support from my allies with airborne US forces and Tanks.. Mr Potter?
