Author: Felix

Orc Objective

One of the nice things about going to GameDay is the wonderful scenery that can be found, not only on the demonstration games, but also in the display cabinets. These pieces of scenery are often used in White Dwarf battle reports, but at GamesDay you can give them a real close look.

This Orc scenic objective is a prime example from GamesDay 2006, you can see the effort and detail that has gone into what is a relatively simple piece of scenery, which in the end would have been a small part of a photograph of the battle report.

Objective

See more photographs of Warhammer Fantasy scenery.

Painting the Flames of War Char B1 bis

After deciding to create an Early War Flames of War French force I went and got the French Early War Paint Set.

After purchasing the set and getting out some French Infantry to paint I was disappointed to find that the box set didn’t contain Green Brown (879)for the uniforms or Olive Grey (888) for the helmets. I had a pot of Green Brown, but no Olive Grey. So I left painting the infantry until I placed an order for some Flames of War miniatures and ordered a pot of Olive Grey paint.

So you can imagine my frustration when after that arrived and I sat down to give my Char B1 tanks a basecoat of Tan Yellow (912) the standard basecoat for French tanks was also not in the box. There was an assumption that you would have other box sets… I didn’t… so I needed to get another pot of paint in order to paint my models… I bought the box set so that I would have all the paints I needed, in the end I think it may have been easier to just buy the paints separately.

Once the Tan Yellow (912) arrived I gave the three Char B1s a basecoat.

Painting the Flames of War Char B1 bis

Painting the Flames of War Char B1 bis

Painting the Flames of War Char B1 bis

The turrets were stuck to a wooden stick to make them easier to paint.

Painting the Flames of War Char B1 bis

See the workbench feature on the French Char B1 bis.

More Sherman Tracking

Having repainted my Shermans with Warpaint British Armour. The next stage was the detailing, including the tracks and the stowage. I also started to paint the tracks using German Grey (995).

The underside of the Sherman.

I do need to start thinking about markings.

See the full workbench feature on the resin Shermans from Open Fire.

Gunfighters and Outlaws

I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws. I am in the process of painting the models using a variety of colours.

I am in the main using Vallejo paints that I bought for my Flames of War miniatures alongside some Citadel paints too.

Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.

Tracking the Shermans

Having repainted my Shermans with Warpaint British Armour. The next stage was the detailing, including the tracks and the stowage.

The next stage was the detailing, including the tracks and the stowage.

I also started to paint the tracks using German Grey (995).

See the full workbench feature on the resin Shermans from Open Fire.

Flames of War Morris CS9

This is one of Simon’s Flames of War Morris CS9 armoured cars.

Morris CS9 Armoured Car
Morris CS9 Armoured Car

Morris CS9 Armoured Car – The Morris CS9/Light Armoured Car was a British armoured car used by the British Army in the World War II. The vehicle was based on a Morris Commercial C9 4×2 15-cwt truck chassis. On this chassis a rivetted hull was mounted with an open-topped two-man turret. The armament consisted of either Boys anti-tank rifle and Bren light machine gun or Vickers machine gun.

The photo is a little dark as my Canon camera was playing up and wouldn’t use the settings that I wanted and decided to use the settings it wanted, so the photograph came out dark. I lightened it up slightly, but as a result it still looks like it’s dusk…