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I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon). I am in the process of painting the models using a variety of colours.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.
Having finished the construction of my 15mm Home Guard MkIV Male Tank I gave the model a white undercoat.
The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War. It was a specialised heavy break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turret was added, to allow it to function also as a Char de Bataille, a “battle tank” fighting enemy armour, equipping the armoured divisions of the Infantry Arm.
Having constructed the three Char B1 tanks the next stage was to give them a white undercoat.
This is one of them on their own.
The next stage will be painting a basecoat of Tan Yellow (912) which I had to buy separately as it wasn’t available in the French Paint Set.
See the full workbench feature on my Char B1 bis platoon. I have also managed to get a fourth one to make as a command version.
Having finished the undercoat on the Kil Krusha I started to paint it. I gave the internals of the turret a spray of battleship grey. I gave the main weapon a spray of grey.
It does need a second coat, but better two thin coats than one thick one!
I also sprayed the internals of the tank with the grey spray.
There was some overspray, but not a huge amount.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Kil Krusha.
I purchased a Flames of War box of the German Panzergrenadier Headquarters. In the box you get a bunch of resin, plastic and metal. Having put them all together I gave the models a white undercoat.
I still need to add the main frontal armament, any crew and the crew equipment. I maybe should have done that before undercoating…
One thing I do like about FoW models is that in this set you get three different half track hulls rather than three of a single mould.
This photo compares my metal SdKfz 251 with the resin/plastic version from Flames of War.
As you can see there is not only more detail of the FoW model, but the detail is crisper and more defined. The plastic tracks certainly help here as does using resin for the main body.
See the workbench feature on this boxed set.
I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon).
After undercoating the models with a white undercoat I started to paint the individual models using a variety of colours.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.
The SdKfz 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was an armoured fighting vehicle designed and first built by Nazi Germany’s Hanomag company during World War II. The largest, most common, and best armored 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.
Like some of my other models I am unsure of the manufacturer of this one. However it is a completely metal model. I want to use this one to test out my German armour paint scheme. I might then use it to create a Flames of War objective.
I found the frontal weapon and stuck it to the model.
After that the next stage was a white undercoat.
Another view.
You can see how it compares to a Flames of War resin and plastic SdKfz 251 in this photograph.
As you can see there is not only more detail of the FoW model, but the detail is crisper and more defined. The plastic tracks certainly help here as does using resin for the main body.
The next stage will be to give the underbody a dark brown basecoat.
See full workbench feature on the German SdKfz 251 Armoured Half Track.
The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. I have discussed my thoughts on this game in an earlier blog post.
Having decided that the Prussian Air Fortress was a definite purchase, I realised that I would also need an opponent and looking at the boxed sets, I decided to go with the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group
In the box you get:
1 x Battleship
3 x Cruisers
9 x Frigates
2 x Bombers
10 x Resin Flying Tokens
2 x Acrylic Flight Stands
4 x A5 Token Sheets
Laminated Statistic Cards
This is how it looks from the marketing material, though this image includes the aircraft carrier which is not included in the Battle Group.
This is the resin you get in the box along with the metal bombers.
They are very clean castings.
The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. I have discussed my thoughts on this game in an earlier blog post.
The Prussian Carrier – or Sky Fortress
The model comes in a quite a large blister pack.
It looks like a very clean casting.
The Tank, Cruiser, Mk III (A13) was a British cruiser tank of the Second World War. It was the first British cruiser tank to use the Christie suspension system which gave higher speeds and better cross-country performance, previous models of cruiser tanks having used triple wheeled bogie suspension. Like most British cruisers, the A 13 was fast but under-armoured and proved unreliable mechanically. Most were lost in the French campaign in 1940, but a few were used in Greece and the North African campaign in 1940-41.
I have had this tank for sometime. Don’t remember the manufacturer, though I think it may be an old SDD Miniatures model. It’s made of metal and is quite well detailed. After cleaning the model I gave it a white undercoat.
Looks better already than when it was plain metal.
