A larger photographs (click for the larger version) of my 15mm Normandy Village. As well as Battlefront roads and houses, I also have in there some of the nice 4Ground laser etched wooden buildings.
Tag: 15mm
British Normandy Village Defence
British armoured forces defend a Normandy Village under a counterattack from German Forces.
A Sherman Firefly takes cover, behind a small hill.
The rest of the Sherman platoon starts to move forward.
Models from Simon’s collection, scenery from mine.
15mm Normandy Village
More photographs of my 15mm Normandy Village for Flames of War.
You can imagine that this would be the view from the gun camera of an RAF ground attack Typhoon attempting to flush out some entrenched Germans. You can see I have used the outbuildings to complement the Flames of War Normandy houses.
Here is an overhead view of the buildings.
As well as Battlefront roads and houses, I also have in there some of the nice 4Ground laser etched wooden buildings.
15mm Normandy Village
I am quite pleased now with how much scenery I have now for 15mm Flames of War games.
As well as Battlefront roads and houses, I also have some nice 4Ground laser etched wooden buildings.
There are also K&M trees that are now quite old, but have stood the test of time, I think they must be nearly twenty tears old!
In addition and not shown in these pictures, mainly as they are not finished, are some Total Battle Miniatures 15mm ruins.
I look though at my grass tiles and think they are a little too bright, they might need some work in the future.
Camouflaging the 15mm German Tiger II – Königstiger
After painting the basecoat on my old SDD 15mm German Tiger II (Königstiger) I started to paint the camouflage.
I used Chocolate Brown (872) from the Flames of War German Armour Paint Set.
Though following the painting guidelines from the German Armour paint set, I think the brown is too brown and needs to be more red.
15mm German Tiger II – Königstiger
The Tiger II (or as was informally known to the Germans who fought in it, Königstiger), was a 70 tonne heavy tank. It was first used in combat with s.H.Pz.Abt. 503 during the Normandy campaign on 11 July 1944.
In the process of sorting some old gaming stuff out I found a bundle of old SDD models. These are 15mm metal castings that I bought back in the 1990s. It makes me think that the other metal models that I have been painting are also SDD.
This box was mainly late war stuff and included a King Tiger. Having put the model together and given it a white undercoat, I gave it a basecoat of Middlestone using a brush.
I usually spray my 15mm models, but this time used a brush.
I am intending after finishing painting this model, to use it as a test bed for foliage camouflage.
Is that a haystack?
Talking about foliage yesterday I was reminded of this photograph of an Universal Carrier disguised as a haystack!
Adding Foliage
I have been thinking about adding some foliage as camouflage to my Flames of War models (once I have finished painting them). Looking at photographs of real tanks, such as the Canadian Sherman Tank in Italy above, there is certainly no one way to do this.
One consideration when modelling in 15mm, is that though the true reason for adding foliage is to camouflage the tank. I do think you can add too much foliage, which may be authentic and realistic in real life, may look “weird” on a 15mm model. It may look like a moving bush or tree, rather than a tank with added foliage camouflage. Part of that reason is that in real life the tank when stationary needs to appear to be hidden, but once moving it would be obvious it was a vehicle with foliage on it. In 15mm the models do not move by their own power, so it can look “weird”.
So next question, how do you model foliage on your 15mm models?
15mm Plastic Cromwell Tanks
The Plastic Solider Company have announced their release of a set of 15mm scale Cromwell tanks.
15mm Cromwell kit – 5 models for £18.95. Each sprue gives an option to build a 95mm howitzer close support variant and has a British commander figure and a Cullen hedgecutter.
Really quite like the idea of these models and they are very cost effective too.
4Ground 15mm Semi Detached Houses
As well as the 4Ground Hotel I blogged about a few days ago, I also had the semi-detached houses.
Northwest European semi-detached houses, one house rendered green the other is white, these are ideal buildings for any 15mm gaming table.
The back is very similar to the front. Like the 4Ground hotel, the kit comes with very clear and easy to follow instructions.
Like the hotel these went together quite easily, though I had a few issues putting the roof together. I am going to add some details, such as glazing for the windows and posters on the walls. As with the hotel the instructions includes some 15mm scale posters.