Showing posts with label Blitzkrieg Germans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blitzkrieg Germans. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 March 2020

28mm: 1940 Germans Continued

I seem to be going through a phase of assembling 28mm plastic WWII soldier and painting 10mm WWII soldiers. My thinking may not be quite as joined up as I want it to be. Slowly they are getting assembled, my second platoon for Chain of Command - although I do feel the insane urge to get Bolt Action too (see below, the results of making one pack [which is not quite enough] of Warlord Games Blitzkrieg Germans):


They make three full squads, the HQ [officer ad sergeant] (minus the attached 5cm mortar and crew) plus the MG34/42 with some riflemen for the fourth squad (see below, my fingers are raw with all the snipping done):


I realised I had forgotten to add the German Officer and Senior Sergeant on the previous photograph (see below, Hans and Ruben admire their command):


A brief pause ensued, then as the Warlord Games German Pioneer set was purchased it enabled me to complete the fourth squad for the basic platoon and add 'the spare figures' to the possible support list by making them up in various engineer combinations (see below, the German 5cm Mortar is created from two prone figures and the 5cm mortar parts from the Perry's DAK box - the arms are a little smaller but it is a passable conversion):


The remaining troops are made up in a plethora of engineering combination and specialist weapons (see below, including an anti-tank rifle, a sniper, the 5cm mortar team, a wire-cutter, a mine clearer, a remote control Goliath operative, a demolition expert, a flamethrower, an officer with a SMG, three NCOs with SMG, a anti-tank rifle grenade and five riflemen in engineer garb - note the yellow figures [an AT rifle team are from the Perry's DAK box and although made them up I will not be using them with the Warlord Games figures as the scales don't quite match, they shall be heading for North Africa after all]):


Now it is time to put them to one side for priming and painting, but first I think I will assemble the remaining boxes I have of 28mm kit. As mentioned at the start of the post I have seemingly the urge to paint 10mm and assemble 28mm. Well if it works, don't knock it - but I need to be a ruthless finisher of projects, nit WIP collector!

Friday, 27 January 2017

Warlord Games WW2 Painting Guides (FREE)

Well for another reason, ahem Romans enough side, I was travelling through the Warlord Games and found these beauties, WW2 painting guides. Destined for the 28mm market I am trying to use them for my 1/72 or 20mm figures (see below, British, US and German):


And (see below, Blitzkrieg Germans, Soviet Union and Italians):

Finally (see below, Japan and France):


Like I said I had been looking for some Roman Painting guides (for some crazy reason). Tpo get them add them to your card shopping cart and proceed to checkout. Put in your personal details and you will be given a download link is emailed to you. Easier if you sign up, yes they get a little hook in you in that it is far easier to come back and show with them again. No I am not on commission, but in AA style "yes I have some of their product, I am a Warlord Games user" (but I don't think I have finished anything yet .. gulp .. and I have other stuff from other manufacturers as well, again unpainted!).

For those interested:
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/painting-guides

Happy painting ;)