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German Panzergrenadier Platoon

As well as the boxed set, I also have the German Panzergrenadier Platoon blister. It contains three squads.

Undercoating 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 putting the model together and adding turrets, the next stage was the undercoat. I did a two part undercoat of white and black.

Black was used for the tracks and to provide shadow, whilst the top of the model was done with a white undercoat.

The next stage will be the basecoat. I am unsure at this point if I will use a spray or a brush.

See the full workbench feature on my Grot Mega Tank.

Flames of War General de Gaulle

A veteran of World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s de Gaulle came to the fore as a proponent of mobile armoured divisions, which he considered would become central in modern warfare. During World War II, he reached the temporary rank of Brigadier General, leading one of the few successful armoured counter-attacks during the 1940 Fall of France, and then briefly served in the French government as France was falling.

Charles de Gaulle is available for Flames of War and comes with a Somau S35 objective. The blister contains the metal parts and resin objective.

Kill Bursta Chassis

Forge World’s big Ork tank mounts a huge gun ready to take on any Imperial BaneBlade or even Titan.

The first job was to wash the resin before construction. I then started to fix the wheels to the main chassis.

This is one big tank.

See the full workbench feature on the Kil Bursta.

Flames of War French Char B1 bis

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.

Among the most powerfully armed and armoured tanks of its day, the type was very effective in direct confrontations with German armour in 1940 during the Battle of France, but a slow speed and high fuel consumption made it ill-adapted to the war of movement then fought. After the defeat of France captured Char B1 (bis) would be used by Germany, some rebuilt as flamethrowers or mechanised artillery.

It’s as the German flamethrower variant that is sold for Flames of War that I purchased. At the time of writing battlefront have repackaged the blister as early war French version. I got two blisters of the Char B1.

Though having looked at the army lists in the Blitzkrieg book it looks like I should really have three, however there were only two in the shop when I bought them. So I ordered a third when I made a recent order for Flames of War.

Within the blister you get the resin hull and turret whilst the rest of the model is whitemetal.

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.

Ork Kill Bursta Tank

Forge World’s big Ork tank mounts a huge gun ready to take on any Imperial BaneBlade or even Titan.

The Kill Bursta mounts a huge-bore Kannon capable of destroying bunkers and siegeworks with ease.

As with the Kill Krusha you do get a lot of resin.

The tracks were quite warped, nothing that a little hot water wouldn’t fix. I really like the commander figure.

The first job was to wash the resin before construction.

See the full workbench feature on the Kil Bursta.

Flames of War German Panzergrenadier Platoon

As well as buying the Panzergrenadier Headquarters I also was given the Panzergrenadier Platoon as a present.

In the box you get a bunch of resin, plastic and metal.

I do believe that I might need two packs for my army…

See more of the models for Flames of War on my workbench.

Building the Forge World Grot Mega Tank

After putting the hull together, the next stage was the turrets and the mast.

The turrets are interchangeable with those of the plastic Ork vehicles and the Grot Tanks allowing you an opportunity to convert the Mega Tank into a different looking model. Useful if you were to get two.

You have some choice about which weapons go in which turrets, I did spend a fair bit of time thinking about and trying different options before deciding on the following, in the end I went with Big Shootas, Grotzookas and a Skorcha.

I added the main smoke funnel. This really adds to the nautical feel of the model.

The next stage was to add the mast and rear exhausts. The rear exhausts can be fitted randomly in any fashion you like. I am not too keen on the mast, it also makes the model quite difficult to store and carry.

The view without the turrets.

The view with the turrets.

I have decided not to glue the turrets into position.

The next stage will be the undercoat.

See the full workbench feature on my Grot Mega Tank.

Basecoating the Flames of War Tiger I E

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.

The next stage after building the model was a white undercoat. I then followed this with a base coat of Humbrol Dark Brown.

Alas the result was that the model was too dark.