Having seen the plastic Orc Boar Boyz I decided that a pack wouldn’t go amiss so that I could put them together as Feral Ork Boar Boyz.
You get five models altogether.
There are three plastic sprues for the five models.
Category: workbench
15mm Home Guard Bedford OXA
The Bedford OXA was a gun truck or improvised British heavy armoured car built during World War II by mounting an armoured body onto a Bedford OXD 1.5 ton truck chassis. 948 units were built in 1940-1941.
The vehicle was used by British Home Guard units until 1942. As with many of my 15mm metal vehicles I don’t recall who the manufacturer was. I gave the model a white undercoat.
This is a solid whitemetal casting.
The next stage will be a basecoat of Brown Violet (887).
And so it begins…
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.
Repainting the Home Guard Standard Beaverette
Standard Car 4×2, or Car Armoured Light Standard, better known as the Beaverette, was a British armoured car produced during World War II.
Don’t remember the manufacturer. After a bit of internet research I believe it is an old SDD miniature. Not convinced totally, but other miniatures in the box it was in carry SDD codes. I have painted this model. I gave the model a black undercoat, a dark green base coat and “weathered” it with some brown paint. Decided to repaint the model and gave it a coat of Warpaint British Armour.
Looks better already!
More undercoating for the Kill Bursta
Using a thinned Chaos Black I touched up the black basecoat. I also black undercoated certain parts of the engine.
I also started to drybrush the “bare metal” with Tin Bitz.
See the full workbench feature on the Kil Bursta.
15mm German SdKfz 251 Armoured Half Track
The Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was an armored 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 Sd.Kfz. 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.
I found the and added the MG to the model.
I am going to use this as a testbed for my German paint scheme and I will then probably add it into some scenery.
Tidying up the Grot Mega Tank
I picked up the Grot Mega Tank at GamesDay 2010. It was available in limited numbers, but I was lucky enough to pick one up, before they sold out. I really do like this model alongside the Grot Tanks. The model is very ship like with battleship style turrets and a prow shaped bow. It is a very ramshackle vehicle and looks like (as it should) if the grots have just thrown it together from parts lying around the battlefield and stuff stolen from a Mek workshop.
After giving the model a spray undercoat I touched up the black undercoat with a brush and some Chaos Black.
The next stage will be the basecoat. I am unsure at this point if I will use a spray or a brush.
15mm Home Guard MkIV Male Tank
I have had this tank for sometime. Having found the 6pdrs I glued them in. Don’t remember the manufacturer, though it may be Minifigs! When I was planning some Operation Sealion games back in the 1990s I intended that the Home Guard would make use of a museum Mark IV Male tank. I mentioned this also in an article I wrote on a French themed Operation Sealion, Otaire de Vigneur.
To add a bit of diversity to my games, I also have one of Minifigs’ World War One British tanks, for use by a Home Guard unit (stolen from a local museum no doubt).
Now when I wrote that article and bought the miniature it was only an assumption and what I thought would be a nice idea, and probably had no basis in truth….
Washing more of the Mega-Dread
So after giving the model a wash, the next stage was giving the model more washes….
To continue the process I added some more washes of Devlan Mud and Badab Black, especially over the engine area.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Mega Dread.
Flames of War – German StuG G Assault Guns
After giving the models a dark brown undercoat, having reflected on this and feedback, I think they are too dark and I think they will need repainting.
I bought some FoW Warpaint, for Late War German Armour and used that on the model, having used it first on my Tiger.
A side view.
See the full workbench feature on these StuG G Assault Guns.