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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

Prime night! I primed the latest reinforcements to the US Army by airbrushing Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now the whole force is ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:51:41

15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

I started to paint the US Army miniatures. With the Brits and Germans I used techniques I usually use on 28mm miniatures, and it took forever, including, especially with the Germans, painting burn out. For the US guys I plan to use a much quicker approach - base colour and black oil wash.

The miniatures are now drying, having had a gloss varnish coat applied, tomorrow I will see if the simple wash will satisfy me.

Colours used:

  • 70.846 Mahogany Brown (boots, pistol holsters, helmet straps, knife scabbards)
  • 70.873 US Field Drab (trousers)
  • 70.988 Khaki (jacket)
  • 70.821 German C. Beige WWII (anklets)
  • 70.886 Green Grey [50%] + 70.820 Offwhite [50%] (webbing, backpacks)
  • 70.818 Red Leather (rifles, spades)
  • 71.073 MM Gun Metal Metalizer [70%] + 70.521 Metal Medium [30%] (rifles, spades, canteen top)
  • 70.815 Basic Skintone (skin)
  • 70.887 Brown Violet (helmets)
  • 70.975 Military Green (grenades, binoculars, radios)

Published 2015-10-06 07:10:06

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

The Wehrmacht force for the scenario is done, the last open point, the basing, is finished.

Published 2015-10-07 10:23:24

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

I applied a black oil wash, the result is basically fine and I will go with this simple base coat / oil wash procedure, but I need to make it thinner, this first batch is way too dark. I removed some of the wash with a cotton but, but the overall effect is still too dark.

Current status:

Published 2015-10-10 09:34:58

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

Some progress, more rifle squats, .30 cal machine guns and 60mm mortars:

Published 2015-10-13 10:12:09

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

The US Army models are all painted in base colours. Next step is to remove the models from the wooden sticks and glue them to their bases.

Published 2015-12-19 10:50:15

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

It is about time I get these models off the to do list, they are pending for long enough.

I applied an oil wash using Winsor & Newton lamp black and Sansodor to all the models. When this is dry, I will go over them with Sansodor again, where the miniatures are too dark. Then I can start finishing the bases.

Published 2016-05-07 11:56:04

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

I smoothed out the ground around the integral bases of the models, then glued sand and small pebbles on top.

Published 2016-05-12 11:11:58

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

All the bases are basecoated. I hate painting sand... so many undercuts...

Published 2016-05-18 10:25:23

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

The bases are ready painted, the brown highlighted with a lighter brown and an ochre drybrush in my usual style, then individual stones and pebbles picked out in a medium grey or grey blue and drybrushed stone grey.

All that needs to be done now is adding some static grass and then the final varnish.

Published 2016-05-21 10:15:48

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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