I have been playing around with the camera and
some standard model railway backdrops and this
photo just stood out for me.
“M18 waiting for the Mortain counter attack 1944.”
Just click on the piccy to enlarge.
A certain person with lots of trees on their blog
has inspired me 🙂
As you can see I`m making sure my British 11th
Armoured have an answer to the Panzer Lehr
oncoming onslaught. M10`s with 17pdrs plus
a few extra bits including another Hellcat and
a Sexton.
The crews are still work in progress. Not long
until finished.
This is by far my favourite American tank destroyer,
its all about speed,speed and more speed.
60mph of speed to be exact with a 76mm cannon and
next to nothing armour. So its a serious case of fire
and run away. Plus you need to bring a hat as a roof is
not included !
Saying that is was cheap to make and could penetrate 88mm
of armour at 2000m,so look out Panzer IV`s.
This is Battlefront`s model and in my opinion the best 15mm
M18 on the market. Its in basic American markings(no individual
markings) and could be found stalking the Normandy countryside.
Enjoy 🙂
There is light at the end of the tunnel 🙂
Finally nearly finished some of the detail including an
orchard, most of the Normandy farm, telegraph poles and bits.
I will let the pictures do the talking.
Click on any picture for a larger image.
The farm house(don’t worry about the chimney):
Rear view of a stable :
A barn:
Telegraph poles in production :
An orchard:
More farm buildings unfinished :
Stay tuned folks 🙂
Just got an email from the NOVA OCF raffle saying I
have won the Flames Of War army and KR Multicase 🙂
THE PANZER LEHR WESTERN FRONT ARMY:Raising funds for Wounded Warrior Project
This enormous WWI Flames of War army was created by Steve McCuen who joined forces with Eric FontaineÕs charityFacebook project. FoWÕs company, Battlefront, has been providing support, encouraging players to purchase raffle tickets. The FoW community has been responding with great enthusiasm. This is a ready for battle starter army like no other!
Best bit of luck I`ve had in ages.
I hope they raised a huge amount of money 🙂
I needed something to haul my anti tank guns
and the Loyd Carrier was the answer. These are
Battlefront models and very simple to paint up and
only needed a slight modification here and there just
so they didn’t all look exactly the same. I have added a
few extra troops as well. Once again its 11th Armoured
colours.
Click on a picture to get a bigger picture:
Cheap to make, easy and light to tow and quick
to set up. Whats more the 6pdr could penetrate 68mm
of armour at 1000 yards, so good enough to deal with
Panzer IV`s.
These are once again Battlefront models and as you can
see I have only managed to complete two so far. I also need
a command team to go with them.
Usually towed into battle by a Loyd carrier 🙂
Click on a picture to get a larger picture:
I have been making small bits of terrain for some time and recently
a lot of Western front WW2 type stuff. Unfortunately I have an
Eastern front type terrain board which has been disguised , very
badly as of late to look like Normandy 😦
So without a further thought of what I`m letting myself in for
and inspired by Arkiegamer ,its off to the shed and out with
power tools 🙂
Now I started this project a couple of months back and to be honest
I have been up to other things but in an attempt to get myself moving
its time to post up my progress and get on with it.
Stage one was to build the standard boards which I already use. By
keeping to the same sizes they will fit perfectly in my terrain storage
tower(sounds impressive but wait for the picture).
My terrain boards are 610 x 610 in size, which fit nicely on most tables
and are not to bulky to move around as a permanent set up board is out
of the question.
I basically cut out four battens of strip wood(2cm x 2cm) and sand off any rough
edges.
These are then glued down onto a 6mm MDF board using industrial PVA
glue.
Once dry a couple of small screws are screwed through the MDF from underneath
the board into the battens to add to rigidity.
Next up I use styrene boards which just happen to be the exact height of
the battens. Cut out the desired shape with a saw(best tool for cutting large
bits of styrene neatly) and glue down again
with industrial PVA, use plenty. Please note by industrial PVA glue I mean the
stuff builders use for sticking just about anything . You can also use wood glue for
sticking down the wood if you choose.
Now we have the basic battle board all ready for whatever you plan to do.
For my project I made four of these basic boards.
Just as a note in case any body is interested, this is what the basic costs
are but a large amount of the stuff I already had in stock. The prices quoted
make at least four boards.
1. 6mm sheets of MDF x 2 £10.
2. 2×2 lengths of strip wood x 2 £12.
3. PVA glue big pot £8.
4. Styrene in packs of 5 £14.
5. Small screw pack £3.
So £47 so far or $80 dollars for you guys over the pond 🙂
Compared to GW boards x 6 at £170 or $289 and I will have lots
of kit left over for more boards.
To put it bluntly these have been a royal pain in
the neck to do, literally. For the last two weeks I
have been unable to tip my head downwards, eaten all
the paracetamol and Ibufrufen stock in the UK and had
a sadistic physio therapist trying to rip my head from
my neck. I now paint in a very unusual and amusing
position. Anyway onto the rifle platoon.
Battlefront`s 15mm British Rifle Platoon(late)
gives you 37 metal figures including a Piat, a 3 inch
mortar and two Bren guns. Basic bases are provided as
usual.
I opted to use Vallejo paints instead of GW simply
because Vallejo have a very good range of WWII colours.
I use a variety of paints including P3,Vallejo and GW so
no extra costs. Saying all that there are GW paints in the
mix.
Couple of things that gave me problems apart from the neck
were a black base coat which makes its virtually impossible
to pick out details especially the webbing. Secondly I forgot
to add a bit of depth to the base so my men stood a bit
proud, but hopefully the gravel and static grass hides this ?
Lastly I wish I had added a few spare bits of equipment on
the ground, perhaps next time ?
Plus points, I love my new Noch puffer bottle and the
effect you get with it and I have taken a liking to Vallejo`s
Flat Earth colour 983. I have always used other colours for
earth but Vallejo`s seems to hit the spot for me 🙂
Click on a picky for a larger image 🙂
Sorry about the floating bases in the pictures. They are
still sitting on French out of currency coins for painting.
I`m thinking 4th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
or 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment to stick with
the 11th Armoured Division theme.
As I was building in the shed I went all out and
had a go at Teddy Bear fur fields.
Once again trusty ebay did the job and up
turned a bag of hair. After reading online I
found an old pair of clippers and lowered the height
of the fur which must start at about at least 2 inches
or more. Anyway either the clippers were blunt or who
knows what, but it was useless. Plan B came into force
and out came the trustee scissors which worked a treat.
I cut a lowered section of fur through the middle so it looked
like a natural path.
Now for the colour. The fur comes as a natural creamy/
brown which is great as grass is usually that colour
towards the bottom, away from sunlight. I borrowed the
kids hogs hair brush(big fat thing) and dry brushed
acrylic paint into the fur, trying to only paint the
top third of the fur. I basically started with a dark
green and got steadily lighter.
1st shot after 1st lot of paint:
2nd shot, more paint:
3rd shot surrounded by bocage:
I think it worked out well and once surrounded by
additional terrain such as walls and hedges it will
look even better.
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