15mm german armour

Some more units to fill up the arnhem tables.

First up a platoon of panzer III

Next is a platoon of panzer IV 

A couple of AA half tracks

And finally a couple of support vehicles 

These were all done in a more early to mid war scheme to represent Luftwaffe units and the tanks as from the training schools in the area. 

I'm sure they will come in handy when I go back to mid war gaming though😊

Bye for now.

Arnhem

I have been ridiculously busy in the last few weeks so progress has been very slow.

However I got some more buildings nearer finished and did a quick layout for the game.

The whole layout 

And again 

And just for fun a german convoy passing through.

Arnhem 3

Got a little work done tonight but nothing major.

The SS platoons have been flocked and finished off the panzerwerfer platoon that's been sitting for months.

There's an interesting small objective marker in this batch too, but I leave it up to you guys to spot it, here they all are drying off before a couple of coats of Matt varnish.

Chow for now.

Arnhem

Okay, appears blogger is fine, I don't know how to use the app properly!

I must be getting old :)

Anyway here's some of today's progress

Under coated troops and tanks, plus a cheeky little building too

The SS platoons and markers

Test base for SS stands, looks good for under 10 mins a base.

Step 1 overbrushed with a beige brown

The almost finished Heer infantry, these had a similar process to the others. Overbrushed with field gray, pick out details with browns and greens, flesh out, and into the brown foot bath for the bases.

May give all of them a magic dip before flocking, I'll see how they look later.

Hopefully more tomorrow night, so stay tuned.

Arnhem

Well I could have popped through to the club today but thought I would press on with the preparation for the Arnhem game due soon.

Today has seen a good bit of work with 2 Heer platoons almost ready, and 3 SS platoons at the half way stage right now.

Intending to finish them off today, which leaves the small task of painting the following list.

5 panzer IV 

4 panzer III

2 AA half tracks

4 75mm gun half tracks

2 flamethrower half tracks

1 sdkfz 250

1 kingtiger

2 88mm guns and carriages

3 37mm guns

2 mortar platoons

1 hmg platoon

And various markers etc.

Pictures to follow, blogger is playing up!

The good bit!

As if I didn't have enough projects on the go, 1 of the 2 kick starters i backed last year has reached the good bit.

It's all very nice, but I can't help thinking, why did I back this, I have too much to paint already!

Joking aside it's very good and I will put up new posts as I go through it.

Half of the order is still being made but most of the miniatures and the rules are here.

It's all for All quiet on the Martian front. I liked the look of it so thought why not. I am just glad that it arrived. I also backed a KS for sails of glory, however it got hijacked by customs, who never told me, then when they did there website went down, so I could not pay the £25 charge.

After frantic emailing etc, it got lost, and now we think it's been returned to the states. This means I am out of pocket to the tune £120. Therefore, never again will I back an overseas based KS.

At least this one turned out ok.

R

orks pt2

the flames of war troops have been neglected, completely lost my painting mojo. 

however, it has meant a little work on non painting projects. the recently purchased figures from critical mass have been based or glued to sticks for prep work, and the 15mm orks have had a bit more work and a slight rethink.

i want to go more in the direction of classic rogue trader artwork for these guys so after a lot of internet searching and saving pics for reference work is finally starting.

this is what i am hoping to achieve with them,

or this

so after looking at various sources i found these guys

poor pic from the company website but other than there only being 2 poses these are a brilliant starting point for conversion or sculpting.

heres a pic of the start of some alterations

not much yet, just some boots for the barefooted figures, a start on the lovely block shaped boltguns they will carry, and most importantly lots of odd shaped hats, which seemed to be an ork fetish of the mid eighties going by the pics!

R