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Corporate Marines¶
Finally some progress. I roughly recreated the machine gun from Brigade Models in OpenSCAD, and added in the rear wall an opening for the gunner. The machine gun will be mounted on the contraption I added there.
Time for a test print.
Published 2015-03-02 22:39:00
15mm | Brigade Models | OpenSCAD | SiFi
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North of Caen¶
With the Wehrmacht done, I started to work on the British troops. First, I painted the boots on all miniatures black. Next, I highlighted the uniforms with 'British Uniform'. This is the same colour I airbrushed over the black basecoat, but brushed on it is much more intensive. On the below picture, the left model is the highlighted one, the right a model with only the brown airbrushed on.
The following is my test model, with all the different colours painted, but no highlights yet except for the uniform as described above. I am happy with the colour selection, and will proceed like this with all the models.
Published 2015-02-12 22:24:00
15mm | 1940's | British Army | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | WWII
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South of Cherbourg¶
As the last things left to be painted were mortar ammo crates and shells.
I was not able to find any dedicated mortar shells for the Wehrmacht mortars, so I settled for the pack '14. Medium mortars+ ammo boxes' from Peter Pig's AK47/Weapons range. When I ordered them I asked for packs consisting only of the ammo crates but no mortars. Friendly as they are, Peter Pig complied :-)
Published 2015-02-10 23:38:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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South of Cherbourgh¶
Finally, the miniatures are all done, all washes and highglights applied. All the new miniatures I prepared for painting (see previous posts) got me motivated again to finish this rather long journey.
Here are some close ups (mobile quality close ups only...):
Here are the squads in formation. I do not know what I was thinking when planning the force, but I ended up with one squad more than I would need... The group of models above the ones in black bases (spare command models) are the additional machine gunners which allow me to equip each squad with two MG42, thus making them Grenadiers.
All the models I painted glued to wood strips (support weapons and the Big Men), have been cut from the wood strips and glued on their washers. Then I applied a mix of my base brown and floor screed, a kind of self-leveling plaster of paris. On top of that I sprinkled sand.
Unfortunately I ran out of the brown colour...
Next up is drybrushing the bases, painting some individual sand grains as rocks and adding static grass. But first I need a resupply of the brown.
Published 2015-02-08 23:44:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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South of Cherbourg¶
The reinforcements are at the same stage as the previous models.
They currently have their gloss varnish coat drying. After that, the whole bunch will have washes applied.
Published 2014-12-29 23:06:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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South of Cherbourgh¶
This week I managed to get in some painting time on 3 of 5 evenings as well as some hours today. The result of this is that only the webbing, rifle straps and helmets are missing.
Published 2014-11-29 21:58:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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South of Cherbourgh¶
Some progress on the Wehrmacht: The models got a basecoat with black with "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" applied through my Airbrush, followed by German Fieldgrey WWII. I then drybrushed the models in lightened up Fieldgrey.
Next I painted the Zeltbahnen, both the rolled up and worn as a poncho types.
Reinforcements top left area.
Reinforcements basecoated in Fieldgrey.
Highlighted Fieldgrey and Zeltbahnen painted.
Published 2014-11-16 20:57:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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North of Caen¶
The British got completely based, basecoated in "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" with my Airbrush, and then sprayed from slightly above angles to create the first shading with 70.921 English Uniform from Vallejo.
Published 2014-11-08 11:34:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | British Army | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | WWII
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South of Cherbourg¶
The US Army models got basecoated in black with "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" applied through my Airbrush.
The bare metal models I de-flashed and (temporarily based) two days later, being part of the reinforcements I orderd from Peter Pig.
Published 2014-11-03 20:00:00
15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII
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South of Cherbourgh¶
I removed the flash from the German reinforcements and based them.
The top two rows of the unpainted models are MG42 gunners. One is needed for the last squad, the others are in case I want to use the models as Panzer Grenadiere, where each squad had two machine gunners instead of one as with the Grenadiere.
The next two rows are additional riflemen, but these are all armed with the G43 instead of the more ubiquitous Kar98k, to get some variety.
The models glued to the wood sticks are additional crew for the mortars and tripod mounted machinge guns, to get the crew up to the number of models suggested by the rules.
Published 2014-10-06 20:55:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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