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October 2, 2014September 16, 2015

Fallschirmjaeger StG 44

I painted these a few months ago, probably my best painted FJ so far.

Back when I originally bought my Fallschirmjaeger you could buy blisters of Sturmgewehr wielding troops and I think you could even field them (though I never had them painted to get that far). Anyway as the rules have been rewritten these guys have fallen by the wayside. Ideally I should have sprinkled them amongst my platoons but they’re painted and based and I didn’t really feel like breaking them off to do it. So I now have six stands (The command stand was painted with them but belongs to something else) of models with StG 44’s in two poses with a handful of flame throwers, a panzerknacker and an fg42 which some how made it into the blister. I don’t really have a use for them since I have three full platoons of FJ anyway, but at least now they’re painted.

March 7, 2013March 10, 2013

Jagdpanzer iv/70 – speed build

Ok here is a very long artical about a very quick build.

I recorded how long I worked on these models.. not in one continuous activity but in snippets of work.

SO here goes

11:50 unpack blisters

The 5 tanks in blisters.. these are OOP now.

Cleaning up the parts of flash
11:37 clean tracks

11:45
After washing then drying them in the sun on a towel.

12:15
Priming the tracks.
Note I did not prime the hulls because the resin is dark grey and this saves time.

12:30 – 1:00
Base coating in dukelgelb with airbrush

Base coating the hulls

1:25 – 1:45
Gluing on the tracks to the hulls

1:25 – 1:30
Using a template mask to paint the green camouflage but only on the hull and not on the road wheels.

Green on

Brown on
1:30 finish

2:30 – 3:10 – painting tracks

Hatches on
7:00 – 8:30 — painting tracks and fluffing around with fix ups and barrel painting and magnets
9:00 am next morning — 9:45 detailing

Gluing on magnets for holding the barrels

Fitting barrels and fixing he weak set. The magnets were too small for he weight of the barrels

6:45pm — 7:00 pm green stuff barrels.

Still some stuff to go… but otherwise looks like it has taken 5hrs50 mins
That’s an average of 1 hour and ten minutes each.

November 14, 2011September 16, 2015

Konigstigers and the Paasche Talon Airbrush

This is my first real attempt at airbrushing my models. That is to say with the exception of an F4 Phantom that I airbrused when I was about fifteen and a couple of evenings mucking around with Martin’s airbrush, this is my first attempt. So not really my first attempt at all then.

Anyway having recieved the Paasche Talon Airbrush set (http://www.chicagoairbrushsupply.com/patastsetg1.html) for which a good review for the Talon itself can be found here http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3675 this was my first crack at using it apart from spraying a bit of paint and water on a piece of card. So naturally I chose two of my most expensive flames of war models to start with. To be fair these have been sitting around for a while because I wanted to airbrush the camo scheme on them rather than attempt to paint it on with a real brush, so they were in part why I got the airbrush. Still I probably should have practiced a little more.

Base coating the dunkelgelb was fantastic. So much so I’ve since basecoated some warhammer stuff. So much faster than using a brush and a better finish. I notice base coating stuff gives me the opportunity to practice with the brush a little controlling the flow of paint etc. After the yellow I painted on the green and brown. I’ m pretty happy with it. There are a couple of areas where I’ve got a bit of water spray (which wasn’t moisture I just had quite thin paint and allowed it to dump a bit much of it on the model in one spot, it’s this bit I need to get better at most of all).

Not totally sure where to go from here, whether I try to fix up the couple of splatters with more yellow with the airbrush or some careful paint brush work, inks and drybrushing. At any rate I’m reasonably happy with how they turned out and with the airbrush too.