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I bought these ruins quite a few years ago. These ruins are in fact 1/200th scale ruins, though they seem to work well with 15mm Flames of War.
I had painted these with a black undercoat and then drybrushed them. I also glued some name signs onto them, though I have partly removed them, not very well mind you. As a result I have decided to paint them again.
I bought this box set as it was available at Hobbycraft for a much cheaper price than the list price last year.
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 cleaned the castings, I then started the construction process, first by gluing the tracks onto the hull. Then adding the extra components of which there is a fair few.
One of the Panthers is going to be my command vehicle and so I have modelled it with the tank commander in the cupola. I will also be leaving the “skirts” off, in the assumption that they have been lost in combat and have not yet been replaced. This will also differentiate the tank from the others in the platoon.
I will also be leaving the “skirts” off, in the assumption that they have been lost in combat and have not yet been replaced. This will also differentiate the tank from the others in the platoon.
Some time ago I got a blister of French Fusiliers Platoon .
Not done much with them since…
Within the blister you get a Command Rifle Team, one Tromblon VB grenade launcher team and six Rifle Teams.
I am hoping that I can paint mine to a similar standard to this.
The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT (AMR 35 or Renault ZT) was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War. It was not intended to reconnoitre and report as its name suggests but was a light armoured combat vehicle, mostly without a radio and used as a support tank for the mechanised infantry.
During the Battle of France the AMR 35s were part of armoured and motorised divisions, the vast majority being lost during the first weeks of the fighting.
This purchase was a bit of a mistake, I thought I was buying the Renault R-35… however in the end I decided to keep them.
Any colour you like as long it is black…
I have undercoated my Cutta.
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. In 1938 the British War Office issued a specification for a scouting vehicle. Out of three designs submitted by Alvis, BSA and Morris, the one by BSA was selected. The actual production was passed to Daimler, which was a vehicle manufacturer in the BSA group of companies. 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 very nice models. I will probably use them with my Late War British, though they have the potential to be used for Early War too.
These are resin models with metal wheels and crew.
See the full workbench feature on the British Daimler Dingo.
I was in my local GW store buying some flesh coloured paint (for my Old West cowboys) when I noticed they had the turf packs in stock. I looked at both the Mordheim Turf and the Middlenland Tufts, but in the end decided I liked the look of the Mordheim Turf better and bought a pack.
Mordheim Turf is a pallid yellow colour, and when your Warhammer armies march across it, a few choice tufts on their bases will really help to set the scene. Each sheet is 210 x 148 mm in size (or 8.3 x 5.8 inches if you prefer Imperial measurements), and holds 200 individual grass tufts of varying sizes, ranging from large patches of foliage to small clumps. They’ve also been specifically designed to stand up straight, adding a little extra height to the bases of your models. Once you’ve finished painting your miniatures, simply peel off the tufts you want to use and stick them to your bases using a dab of Citadel PVA Glue.
I have seen similar products before and in the olden days I use to cut tufts of sisal (string) for tufts of grass. These tufts however appear to be much finer and less coarse than sisal is. I am intending to use them mainly with my Flames of War bases and possibly my Old West miniatures rather than my Orks.
They’re not cheap at £8.00 per pack but compared to the Army Painter range seem to be of similar value. Will be interesting to see the results.
I bought this box set as it was available at Hobbycraft for a much cheaper price than the list price last year.
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 resin and metal certainly fills the box.
There are five Panthers in the box and the hulls and turrets are in resin.
These are clean castings and the detail is very good, the Panthers for example have the Zimmeritt paste and you can see how the where it has “chipped off” has been modelled onto the hull.
Each of the castings is different, with this one there are spare tracks attached to the turret as extra armour.
They are very clean castings and the small piece of flash on the turret with this model was basically all that needed to be cleaned off.
The castings needed mininal cleaning before the next stage of constructing the models.
See the workbench feature on my Flames of War Panther A Platoon.
The SdKfz 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was an armored fighting vehicle designed and first built by Germany’s Hanomag company during World War II. One of the most common, and best armoured of the wartime half-tracks, the SdKfz 251 was designed to transport the panzergrenadiers of the German mechanized infantry corps into battle. Widely known simply as “Hanomags” by both German and Allied forces, they were widely produced throughout the war, with over 15,252 vehicles and variants produced in total by various manufacturers.
This is an old metal model that I think was made by SDD. I am using it as a testbed for which method I should use with my Flames of War resin models and I suspect in the end it will probably end up as a piece of scenery.
Having given the model a basecoat of Warpaint German Armour the next stage will be to add the disruptive camouflage.
I thought long and hard about how to do this, and I didn’t have or really wanted to buy an airbrush, even though that appears to be the accepted method for doing late war German camouflage.
What I did was take an old paintbrush and cut off the bristles leaving a quarter inch. This brush is then used to stipple on the camouflage pattern.
I used Reflective Green (890) and Chocolate Brown (872).
I am quite pleased with the effect.
Though the official German manual during the war told how the camo pattern was to be applied, it said the raw paint mixture was to be mixed with petrol and sprayed onto the vehicles. Reality and short supplies of petrol meant that more often the camo pattern was “painted” onto the vehicles, sometimes with brushes and sometimes with rags.
I do like the effect that the airbrush gives these models, I am not sure if I have the requisite skill to do it justice on small models like this.
See the workbench feature on the German SdKfz 251 Armoured Half Track.
The 17 pounder, Self Propelled, Achilles was a British variant of the American M10 Tank destroyer armed with the powerful British Ordnance QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun in place of the standard 3″ (76.2 mm) Gun M7. With a total of 1,100 M10s converted, the 17 pdr SP Achilles was the second most numerous armoured fighting vehicle to see service armed with the 17 pounder gun, behind the Sherman Firefly.
Having given the model a white undercoat, and as I had run out of Humbrol Dark Green, I gave the models a complete spray of Warpaint British Armour.
Next stage will be painting some of the details and the crew.
See the workbench feature on the British M10 / 17pdr SP Achilles.