Commie Armor to Battle the Nazi Menace

Finished the batch of Soviet Armor.  Churchills, T-34s, and since no one makes a Soviet 37mm AA gun, I have French 25's standing in.  All 15mm Quality Casting miniatures.

And it looks like I need to clean the camera lens or ccd. . .

German Armor

Detailed, Camo applied, drybrush, varnish.

Armor To The Front

Here is the armor with blackwash (black ink, 50/50 Future/water) applied.  Next is detailing and camo.

Armor to the Front

New batch of Quality Castings 15mm armor being prepped for use.  This is application of base coat.

Fallschirmjager Regiment Ready for Duty

The Fallschirmjager Regiment, specifically the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Fleiger Division, circa May 1941 (Crete) is ready for action.

Figures are 15mm, based for Command Decision-Test of Battle, mostly Quality Castings with some Old Glory and Peter Pig as fillers.  Photos show the regimental HQ, three para battalions, 13th (IG) and 14th (AT) companies, MG Company from the divisional MG Battalion and artillery battery from the artillery regiment.

Fallschirmjager Regiment Project

I've been meaning to create a German para Regiment and since a friend, Jake Strangeway, is putting together a large Battle for Crete project for Historicon 2012, I thought I'd start my project and use the regiment in the Battle for Crete.

15mm Quality Castings minis arrived today so I've started filing the buggers, gluing them on pospsicle sticks and priming.   Color scheme will be green-grey smock and field grey trousers and helmet.  Pictures as I get some finished.

As of the 22nd, I have about a 1/3rd of the regiment painted and some elements based.  Things are progressing well.

Whitewashed Shermans

So I've decided I have enough "summer" WWII stuff in 15mm so now I'm going to start painting minis for "winter".  For vehicles that means whitewashes.  This is my first whitewash.  To start with I painted the Shermans in Olive Drab and detailed the improvised sandbag armor.  I applied decals and then masked them with frisket.  Next I thinned down white paint to a milky consistency and applied that over the hull and turret.  I repeated this twice more after each application dried.  Then I applied a black wash (50/50 water/future floor polish with a few drops of black ink).  When that dried, using a small, worn out brush I scrubbed on white paint to highlight the white wash some.  Then, with the Olive Drab and a stiff brush, I "stippled" on some olive drab to represent the corners and areas where the white wash has rubbed off with campaign wear and tear.    "Stippling" in my case means taking the stiff brush wet with olive drab paint and punching it onto the hull and turret leaving little dots of OD on flat surfaces and at edges.  Repeat the white scrub and OD stipple until you get the look you want.  Then I removed the masking from the decals, applied matte varnish and hit the model with a khaki/sand color mix as drybrush to highlight again.

After all that, I decided the tracks and running gear needed some mud so I added color to spackling paste and applied with brush and highlighted with lighter mud color after drying.

A busy procedure but I'm satisfied with it as a first attempt.  Now I have some armor ready to fight the Bulge!

The minis are Quality Castings 15mm Shermans.