A quick start for a german task force - Armour & Infantery

I will start a new project tonight. In our wargaming group we have a small problem. One of our guys build nearly all of our german troops. I know, WWII without the german army would have been a better time, but in case of our game we can´t play without the germans. Okay, sometimes I can play with my Italians against allied forces but they have not so much to choose for the lineup.

My idea now is to build up a german task force to have an alternative stock for german troops if needed.

I want to model these kits:

Why Armourfast? As I mentioned in a blogpost before. I´m not a good modeller and the most important fact is: I know it. :-)

Bought the three kits because StuG, Pz IV and Panther are units that fought in nearly every battle between 1941 and 1945. With this small collection of german tanks I can represent a wide variety of the german motor pool with look-a-likes.

Bought a pack of Italeri German Elite Troops to add those guys to my existing Revell German Infantry.

Hope I can show you the results soon...


*Update 02.09.2012 morning*

Result after 3,5 hours of building. That´s why it´s called ArmourFAST.

 

 

 

*Update 02.09.2012 afternoon*

 

First mission accomplished - 6 tanks ready for painting ;-)

 



Project T-34/85 - A front-line tank for the next game!

Some years ago I have build a Revell kit T-34/85 scale 1/72. I painted it standard russian green and pasted up some decals. Finally it ended in a box for relocation *narf*

Resorting my tabletop stuff I found this glorious russian tank. The T-34 was a tank of mass-production and the T-34/85 version got a better gun to penetrate tanks like the german Tiger.

Next time we play around Spring 1944 the german army will have a problem ;-)

my personal "out-of-the-box" T-34/85

got a hit into the right gas tank

Ready for the front-line

Let´s hunt some Huns...

Will post some pictures when it has seen some action :-)

Project "Stalinorgel" - Katyuscha on Studebaker

Before we can start playing an amazing game of tabletop wargaming, God (respectively the seller) gave us a folding carton with our beloved model kit. Unfortunately we have to build and paint it - the game has to wait! As I said in one of the last postings I am not the modeller in our wargaming group. However, sometimes even I have to take a glue or a paint-brush to get new units on the field of glory.

This is the master:

Source: Photo taken at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Russia, by Nick Lobeck

A beautiful Katyuscha (german: Stalinorgel) on a Studebaker chassis (for more Info see Wikipedia).

This is the status of the model kit (okay, some of you would not call 6 pieces a kit *gg*)

Katyuscha unpainted

I will keep you up-to-date about my "precious"...



*Update*

After some hours of painting:

Katyuscha painted - without decals

Now I have to choose some decals, do some ageing and get it dirty :-)


*Update 2*

Ageing done. I have qualms to make it dirty. For my eyes it is okay this way:

Katyusha on Studebaker Truck