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| Heavy MG team with the legendary DShK from Black Tree Design, operational and limbered |
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| Limbered |
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| NKVD Medium MG with the iconic Maxim Foreground minis from Copplestone Rear MMG Team from BTD |
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| Copplestone Limbered |
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| Copplestone Limbered |
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| Anti-tank teams sporting the Boys PTRD Rifle from BTD |
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| Trying to get a bead on a column |
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| Prone for attack and assault |
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| Here's my 25mm BMW Motortrupen from Battle Honours |
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| MG 34 team also from Battle Honours |
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| Start with a standard 2' x 2' acoustic ceiling tile available at any hardware store. Paint the edges with flat black for a better border |
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| Inexpensive but very effective for most of my painting needs |
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| Apply with a metal spatula a good base layer of a slurry mix (sand, white glue, cheap gray acrylic craft paint and water). Let dry and cure overnight then apply successive coats of dark brown wash |
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| Again let dry and cure overnight |
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| After the board was dry-brushed to my liking I then applied white glue to random areas and sprinkled copious amounts of static grass from Gale Force Nine |
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| Let dry and cure overnight then take a tooth brush to tease out (stand up) and remove excess static grass and Voila! |
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| Steppe this way! My Mongols from The Assault Group and Old Glory lines in 28mm |
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| Assortment of German Panzers: Stug III, Sd.Kfz 222 armored car and Sd.Kfz 251 half-tracks from Bolt Action in 28mm |
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| Same Panzers supplemented with 25mm BMW motorcycle troopen from Battle Honors (incidentally, putting them in the foreground mitigates the scale disparity) |
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| My 28mm Soviet Tankovy: KV1 and T34/76 from Battlemart and armored cars: BA6 and BA64 from Bolt Action |
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| Showcasing some of my 6mm Modern micro armor from GHQ: M1 Abrams, British Challenger and German Leopard 2 alongside Timecast buildings and haystacks |
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| Ditto |
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| Composed shot for my Instagram |
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| Some of it's variants... |
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| Here they are in 15mm for use with my Flames of War miniatures in front of some HO scale prepainted buildings I got from my local model railroad and trains store. |
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| In a previous post "More PanzerGrenadiers" (http://thehistoricalminiaturist.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-panzergrenadiers.html) I featured these infantry and half tracks that were acquired from two different sources. They were already painted which suited me just fine. The dunkelgelb (German Armor Yellow) was OK but was lacking due to a typical application of camo on these later paint schemes. |
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| I planned to repaint them to Panzer Grey. Also the infantry was finished with a semi-gloss which is not to my liking. I prefer all my minis to have a flat matte finish that really helps the weathering effects. |
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| Since these were acquisitions I can only guess who the manufacturers were. My guess for the infantry is Artisan. Company B for the halftracks. Chime in and let me know if you know. |
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| Because of the coolness of the Bolt Action rules and the relative ease of play, my gaming group got some renewed interest in WW2 skirmishing. So that meant that the day finally arrived for repainting these bad boys to my preferred color. Time to get them out of mothballs for a makeover. |
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| Done and shown here with a mix of my German troops from different manufacturers: Battle Honors, BTD and Artisan(?). |
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| At one point I thought these half tracks were from Warlord but upon my investigation of their site and online store, their models did not come with an integral base, like these models show. |
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| I've since applied matte finish to the acquired infantry and have modified some of them as the gun crew for this 251/10. |
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| Friday night was opening night where I got to play a Western skirmish game: Gut Shot. They were testing our the latest expansion called 'Night of the Living Deadwood' where humans and zombies went head to head with each other. Last thing standing. Sorry, no pix of the actual table and minis. |
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| Meanwhile in another room of the con, a great game was being held in the same time slot . I couldn't be in two places at once, gol darn it! Great table and minis. |
Using Gaslight rules this was a VSF (Victorian Sci-Fi) table filled with lots of eye candy. On the eve of WWI, it's a city fight circa summer 1914 where the Mahdist clash with Euro powers.
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| And walking thru the dealer's area I spied some Dungeon Stone. Pretty good stuff and made in Texas. |
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| Aerodrome |
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Another great event GM'd by Brian Weathersby.
He never disappoints and I always love playing on his table.
From the con catalog write up:
"It is April 1945, and Berlin is in ruins. As the Red Army advances into
the heart of the Reich's capital, it is finding that the German defenders
may not be numerous, but they have no shortage of determination and courage."
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| Ambushed T34-85 by a Panther. |
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| Sunday was a major fleet action. The Battle of Calabria was brilliantly put on by Stephen Kastensmidt using War At Sea minis and rules. |
