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These nice looking British Light Tanks are from Simon’s collection.
I’ve always liked the British Light Tank and this is a really nice model.
Vickers Light Mark VI B/C – Developed in the late ’30s as a nimble reconnaissance tank, the Mark VI saw service in France and the opening stages of the Desert War.
The Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) was a British tank of World War 2. It mounted the 17 Pounder gun on the Cromwell chassis to add heavier anti-tank firepower to the cruiser tank units.
This is the Flames of War blister of the British Challenger A30 Tank.
Within the blister, as with a lot of FoW models, you get a resin hull and turret and metal tracks and accessories.
See the full workbench feature on my Challenger A30.
The Cromwell Tank was one of the most successful series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in World War II.
The Cromwell tank, named after the English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell, was the first tank in the British arsenal to combine a dual-purpose gun, high speed from the powerful and reliable Meteor engine, and reasonable armour, all in one balanced package. Its design formed the basis of the Comet tank. The Cromwell first saw action in June 1944, with the reconnaissance regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps.
This is the Flames of War blister of the British Cromwell Tank.
In the blister you get a resin hull and turret and the rest of the model is in whitemetal.
You also get the option to make it a CS Centaur version.
See the full workbench feature on my Cromwell IVs. In the end I picked up a couple more to make a full platoon.
I bought this box set as it was available at Hobbycraft for a much cheaper price than the list price.
The 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.
The Tiger was feared so much by the Allies, that most German tanks were referred to as Tiger tanks.
Tiger I is the common name of a German heavy tank used in World War II, developed in 1942. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. E, often shortened to Tiger. It was an answer to the unexpectedly formidable Soviet armour encountered in the initial months of Operation Barbarossa, particularly the T-34 and the KV-1. The Tiger I design gave the Wehrmacht its first tank mounting the 88 mm gun, which had previously demonstrated its effectiveness against both air and ground targets. During the course of the war, the Tiger I saw combat on all German battlefronts. It was usually deployed in independent tank battalions, which proved to be quite formidable..
This is the Flames of War blister of the German Tiger I E.
I was quite surprised by how many parts were in the blister. This wasn’t going to be a quick model to put together, especially with no instructions!
The key was to find pictures of the finished model on the web and see if that helped.
See the full workbench feature on the Flames of War Tiger 1E.
These nice looking Universal Carriers are from Simon’s collection.
These are all resin models.
These German Stug G miniatures come in the Open Fire Flames of War starter set
See more Flames of War miniatures in our gallery. Check out my workbench on the models I am painting.
These Sherman tank miniatures come in the Open Fire Flames of War starter set
The buildings are Hornby 9mm Lyddle End railway buildings sold for N gauge railways.
See more Flames of War miniatures in our gallery.
Last month I blogged about the price of the new Flames of War Polish Armoured Train.
Back then when I thought the price was going to be £52 I initially said.
It’s a little more, well a lot more, than I thought it was going to be. To be honest I didn’t know or guess what it was going to be.
Upon reflection, I came to the conclusion that £52 wasn’t that bad.
I have come to the realisation that £52 is what I should have expected and prepared myself for.
The German Panther A boxed set with five Panthers has a list price of £41.
So to get four large resin models complete with extra turrets, £52 isn’t actually as bad as I made out it to be.
Well my source for the price of the Armoured Train, as it happens, was completely wrong and the actual list price is £90.
Yes, £90!
That is a lot more than I am willing to pay. Don’t get me wrong these are large resin models, probably with a fair bit of metal parts too. £90 is probably what I should be expecting to pay.
However for an army I don’t collect, it’s a luxury that I can’t afford. Pity really, maybe I should start a Polish army…
No, no, I need to finish the others first.
Though I’ve yet to buy my own, I did like these video painting guides from Flames of War on how to paint the recently released Street Barricades.
I like how in the tutorial they have painted the truck as a civillian truck.