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Making the Flames of War Dingo

The Daimler Scout Car, known in service as the “Dingo” (after the Australian wild dog), was a British light fast 4WD reconnaissance vehicle also used in the liaison role during the Second World War. The vehicle was officially designated Daimler Scout Car, but became widely known as Dingo, which was the name of the competing Alvis prototype.

The Flames of War blister comes with three of them. These are resin models with metal wheels and crew.

The models go together quite easily, but it can be challenging to get the wheels to fit flat.

The three completed Dingos.

The crew I decided to paint separately. I glued the crew to a wooden stick.

See the full workbench feature on the British Daimler Dingo.

Basecoating the Flames of War German Panther A Platoon

Panther is the common name of a medium tank fielded by Nazi Germany in World War II that served from mid-1943 to the end of the European war in 1945. It was intended as a counter to the T-34, and to replace the Panzer III and Panzer IV; while never replacing the latter, it served alongside it as well as the heavier Tiger tanks until the end of the war. The Panther’s excellent combination of firepower, mobility, and protection served as a benchmark for other nations’ late war and immediate post-war tank designs, and it is frequently regarded as one of the best tank designs of World War II.

Having given the underneath of the models a dark brown undercoat to add shadow I then applied the final basecoat of Flames of War Warpaint Late War German Armour.

This is the command tank.

See the full workbench feature on the Flames of War German Panther A Platoon.

Imperial Manticore

The Manticore is a mobile multiple rocket launcher variant built on the Chimera chassis. The launcher is capable of firing a variety of rockets, from standard high explosive fragmentation warheads to oxyphosphur incendiary warheads, from air-gas to surface-to-air interceptor missiles.

From the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2007.

Shadowing the Flames of War German Panther A Platoon

Having given the models a white undercoat, I then sprayed the underneath of the models with a Humbrol Dark Brown spray to add shadow when I apply the final basecoat of Flames of War Warpaint Late War German Armour.

See the full workbench feature on the Flames of War German Panther A Platoon.

Flames of War German Armoured Train

In this month’s Wargames Illustrated we get to see our first look at the German Armoured Train, which will be released on the 3rd March.

Unlike the Polish armoured train, the German Armoured Train is split between four/five boxed sets, one of which has already been released. We have already seen the Tank Hunter Cars that I quite like.

The four new releases are the Locomotive and Anti-aircraft car (pictured above) alongside an Artillery car and an Infantry car.

I have a bit of a thing about armoured trains, but did stop short of buying the Polish one when it was released.

However I am quite tempted by this one.

Of course most of my Flames of War models are based around the Normandy Campaign, don’t think the Germans used Armoured Trains in Normandy, but if you have any info on that would be pleased to hear it. Otherwise I will be out buying some T-34s.

Chariots

Some nicely painted chariots from an Ancients game at Attack 2011.

French 47mm SA-37 Gun

The 47 mm APX anti-tank gun was a French anti-tank gun that saw service in the first years of the Second World War.

In the 1930s the French artillery sought a replacement for the derivatives of the 75 mm mle 1897 field gun it used in the anti-tank role. Despite having a decent anti-armour capability, the venerable soixante-quinze was heavy and was much harder to conceal than the smaller high-velocity, small calibre anti-tank weapons of modern design. The chosen weapon was a design of the state-owned arsenal Atelier de Puteaux (“Puteaux workshop”, abbreviated to APX), and was designated as canon de 47 mm semi-automatique mle 1937. It was a very efficient weapon, especially given the (then) thin armour of German tanks of the time, unfortunately the 47 SA 37 still was relatively rare at the time of the Battle of France.

Within the Flames of War blister you get two guns and one command team.

They may eventually end up like this!

Thunderer Siege Tank

When the advanced technology of the Tank Hunters’s Laser Destroyer malfunctions, or is damaged in battle the Adeptus Mechanicus often re-gun the the Tank Hunter with a different weapon. A common converison is to replace the damaged Laser Destroyer with a Demolisher cannon, to fill the role of the Demolisher.