A new look for some old halftracks

I recently dumped my FoW halftracks in some soap and water and cleaned them up ready to paint them up as a whole collection. They were sorely mismatched, having been acquired over the past decade or so.

I wanted them to be flexible in their gaming use, good for any front or passenger, so I kept them in a no frills dunkgelb base.

Yesterday I finished one up and kept the recipe for all the others. Still not 100% happy with it - I hate that mossy green camo net and will have to to something about it.

Here he is - the first of about 16 to do:

Henschel 129 B3

Finished last night, some air support for my Panzergrenadiers. A Hs129B3 with the massive 75mm canon. A truly unique (meaning weird) flying machine. Figure is 1:144 by Battlefront.

Hs129B3

On the table now

Finished a couple of comission works and have some in the queue, but I took a brief interval to paint up some stuff for me. No more text, all pics from here down:

BEF Tanks - Comission was the markings - white/red/white and freehand yellow markings

Me262 Sturmvogel, still lacking varnish (waiting for a sunny day)

Flammhetzer (some detailing left to do)

Hs129B3 WIP

Humber Scout cars (Comission work)

I also finished some Khurasan Tibetans but have no photos of that. Will wait for the customer to take some proper photos so I can have a memento :)

Upcoming post will mainly focus on 15mm Panzergrenadiers (Lehr) done for me and 20mm SCW/10mm ACW/15mm Romans on comission.

Cheers,

Pedro

Hurricane IId for FoW

Latest commission work on the queue done - a Hurricane IId in tropical camo scheme, 15mm scale by Battlefront. Never had done a plane at this scale before, but I´m pretty happy with how it turned out.

On the commission queue lots of different things: from Tibetan 15mm Cataphracts to markings on Churchills. Will have plenty to keep me busy and variety enough to avoid boredom :)

Cheers,
Pedro

Viriathus & Stalins

Been busy on the workbench lately. Last work finished couldn´t be further apart in chronologically:

15mm IS2 tanks (Battlefront) done on comission:

Command IS2, with some stolen oil painting of a Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies splayed on the turret

One of the other tanks - the IS2 is a beast!

This one shows off nicely the pigment work I tried. Worked nicely, will use again

All 5 of the IS2 bumper to bumper

And a Lusitanian command stand with Crusader Miniatures:

Commander is Viriathus - his shield design is supposed to be Endovelicus, an Iron Age pre-Roman Lusitanian God

Next few days I´ll be finishing some Numidian Light Horse and a  Late Republican Roman Legion, both part of a FoG army comission.

Oh - I also managed to find time and dab some additional paint on my Seljuk Emir (right down the middle of the timeline between the previous 2 figures). Still some way to go, but he currently looks like this:

The Seljuk Emir, now with 100% more carpet

Cheers,
Pedro

FoW German Scouts

It has been a while since the last update, mainly because I've been playing more than painting.

With the release of Battlefront's V3 Ruleset for Flames of War, I have been playing the game a lot. I'm having lots of fun with the new version - probably the most I've had with the game since V1 :)

Well, that inspired me to do some hours on ww2 15mm, a nice change from the 28mm historics I've dedicated myself to in the last couple of months.

Always a challenge "scaling down" from 28mm to 15mm where painting is concerned - I always find myself spending way too much time on details no one will see on the gaming table on the first projects until I get to the 15mm "mindset" - hold the miniature at arms length, if it's ok, moe on to the next one.

That said, I got all my WW2 15mm out of the display cabinets to be checked for battle damage or a spot of repaint and organised some miniatures from the lead pile into platoons for painting.

As a curiosity - this is what 120+ AFVs and soft skins look like on my gaming table, ready for inspection:

The unit currently in progress is a German Motorised Scout platoon. It is composed of a command element and 3x squads. They can ride either motorcycles with sidecar or kubelwagens (both count as Jeeps in the rules, so it's really up to players taste). in my case the command will ride a kubelwagen (with lots of stowage and a always handy panzerfaust) and all the squads will be motorcycles with sidecars.

Finished up the command kubelwagen today:

Will post up the motorcycles as I finish them (currently assembled, based & primed).

Cheers,
Pedro