Bought these quite a while ago but have been sitting in my cupboard since. Anyway every game since when I’ve fielded by FJ (which admittedly isn’t all that much) I’ve reflected on the howitzers and pak40’s that are sitting in the cupboard and wishing I’d painted them to use. And now, the howitzers at least, are painted. Was a bit of a rush job, for me a least as a lot of my pieces have been in recent times, roughly a week.
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.
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
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
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.
