A few 20mm AA guns for the Germans

Just wrapping up some more of the prints I received recently.  Two 20mm FlaK 38's.  One with a Fallschirmjaeger crew, and one with a standard Grenadier crew.

German prime movers...finally.

I've been looking for 3D printed prime movers for my Germans for a couple years at this point.  I finally picked up a few from a buddy, and slapped some paint on them.  I'm not terribly happy with the results, but I can deal since they're just there to drag stuff around.  My German transport collection has been growing steadily.

Some brick walls for 15mm.

I ordered some stone and brick walls from Monday Night Gaming(?) via eBay.  Unfortunately, upon arrival they were exactly what I expected - poorly sculpted and cast components.  The type you'd get for $5 at a convention off a rack.  Very late-90's feeling stuff.

I spent way too much time cutting off flash, excess resin, leveling the bottoms, etc.  However, the end result of at least one set is acceptable for gaming.  Just too much work needed to make them look decent.

 

 

I can see the light at the end of the...(train sounds)

I'm trying desperately to make visible headway against a few box-lids of minis I have just sitting around.

I knocked out a Zvezda Marder III M (fun fact I had actually thrown this out when I hit it with a primer that turned chunky...I then recovered it and stripped it using alcohol).

I also repainted a Zvezda Opel Blitz (not pictured), and used two Zvezda and two Battlefront minis to knock out all three versions of the Sdkfz. 234 armoured car.  I now have no fewer than eight different armoured cars for the Germans to scout around with!

Starting over with the Soviets

When I started doing 15mm a few years ago, I was rushing to get my Soviet stuff on the table.  I hadn't figured out proper colours, and hadn't painted much in the way of 15mm.  While happy with my infantry, etc. I am generally not super happy with my initial vehicles.

Towit...I am now going to start slowly re-doing, replacing my Soviets over time.  I started with stripping down and repainting a couple of my trucks, and painting up some 3D printed lend-lease Jeeps for use with my officers.

A platoon of Panzergrenadiers.

I had a couple sprues of the Battlefront 15mm German Panzergrenadiers.  I painted up a platoon to use with the halftracks I recently painted. Not particularly good sculpts and somewhat boring to paint, but they'll be useful alongside my Fallschirmjaeger.

Battlefront Panthers for Battlegroup

I'm still digging through the plastic pile of German 15mm kits.  This is a new platoon of Panthers to replace the two I sold off a little while ago.

Some good ole' fashion flak-attack.

Continuing to chop down my box full of 15mm kits (why do I buy starter armies from Flames of War?).  An Ostwind and Wirbelwind.

Replacing some older Panzer IV's.

I recently sold off my original Panzer IV H platoon - because I'd painted them poorly with colours that really annoyed me.

I picked up some more Panzer IV H's in a Flames of War army starter box - so these are the "new" versions now that I've figured out my German paint schemes.

Leftover Tamiya Barrels can mean only one thing!

I whipped up one more 'barge' for my 'port' while I had all the bits out.  I used up the rest of my Tamiya barrels (used as the floats), and a bunch more plasticard and coffee stirrers.

This one came out slightly larger than the other one, but they are distinctive enough while looking like they exist in the same world.

Forgotten Angels

I painted up these five Blood Angel terminators the other week - but forgot to take pictures or post them.  I'm not overly pleased with them - the sculpts are okay, but the prints were...mediocre.  A decent Etsy purchase though at half the cost of normal GW product.

These are an interpretation of the classic 'Saturnine' terminator from Rogue Trader days.  I wanted something different for 2nd edition, so these'll work.

Scrapheap river barge - not in 15mm?

Despite blasting out a bunch of 15mm kits the past few days I decided to pull a 90-degree turn back into Scrapheap...with more terrain.  One of the locations requires a river barge which docks during the game (with loot on board).  For over a year I've put off building a river barge.

 

I changed that yesterday/today.

Some Nasty Naughty Nashorns.

 Continuing my 15mm flow-state, I whipped up these two Flames of War (Battlefront) Nashorns.  They're a nice dual kit which can also make the Hummel, but I'm not big on using on-table artillery in games like Battlegroup so I avoid it where possible.

PSC Steyr Heavy Cars (and they suck)

I'm a huge fan of the Steyr Heavy Car from WW2.  Turns out PSC makes some and I can use them (or proxy them as trucks) in Battlegroup.  I picked up a set a while ago and finally got around to putting some together.

They're terrible to build.  This is rare from a PSC kit.  You need to cut several pieces to even make them fit together and when they do it's a paint to hold them in place so the glue binds, etc.  Fortunately I'm only doing three (the other two are being sold off).  I almost threw the first one in the trash.

Because I was holding a grudge against these small plastic cars, I rushed the paintjob, but they turned out serviceable.  These will help make up for my lack of Opel Blitzes/trucks, etc. for my German force.

Battlefront Sdkfz 251 Half Tracks

In the process of cranking out small projects to clear my sudden plastic mountain (something I'm not accustomed to having...).  While I don't have any panzer grenadiers to go with them, I did pick up these four halftracks in a Flames of War starter box, so I assembled them for use.

 

The assembly line begins.

 

The questionable spray masking job.

A few hours of painting later.