AndrewB - The Armory (42 points)

 Taking another bit of liberty with an ‘armored’ model, here is a peek at my challenge-long project that I will hopefully complete and post for a big bundle of points before the close of the overall challenge!  A Panzer IV/70!  This is an Old Glory model, from the Berlin or Bust line.  These vehicles really aren’t the best for gaming as they aren’t standouts in any games I’ve played, but they’re cool examples of late war German design, so I figured I would paint one up for a characterful force I’m working up. 

This is my first attempt at camouflage of this pattern, and while I’m not 110% delighted with it, it sure looks good enough for my work.  I’m still getting ahold of painting vehicles in this scale, as opposed to 6 or 15mm, but I could have done far worse by my own approximation.  The crewman painted up easily in SS uniform, although there was a bit of a detail lacking on the uniform, it’s 1944, and less for me to paint, so all the better!

The points for this fella would be 20 for each the 28mm vehicle and challenge chamber, bringing us to 40, I believe. 

Now off to dig up some guards, or a female model to skip them!  Happy painting!

Armour is armour, and this is armour. So, it counts. But you forgot to count the commander figure, so you actually get 42 points for this entry.

Tamsin

From: Jeff B - Sgt Guinness - Ingenieure vorwärts! - "Hall of Traps"

 Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure Vorwarts!

Here is my very first submission ever! This is the first Challenge I’ve entered though I’ve been following it for quite some time. I’m certainly not worthy compared to the extremely talented and very imaginative painters before me. However, I felt I’d give it a go as I needed inspiration and motivation to get some projects moving.

For this first chamber "Hall of Traps" I went with the lying in wait / stalking angle of the “Trap”.

A German pazerschreke team and 81mm mortar with FO lay in wait while supporting German Engineers take up positions to ambush unsuspecting allied armor and infantry slogging their way through the dense Normandy bocage country, June 1944.

Figures are 15mm Peter Pig and the FO team is Old Glory, all purchased about 20 plus years ago. They’ve sat in the same box I put them in once I primed them, doomed never to see the light of day, until now. The 15mm club project had fallen apart and they languished...

The mortar crew, FO, and panzerschreck team have the white infantry piping on their epaulettes while the engineers have the orange piping associated with that branch.

The paints are mostly Polly Scale with a few Vallejo and craft store paints. The figs are based on washers and the basing is wood glue, sand, and ballast painted over with craft store paints and flocked with 25 year old static grass. I’m not happy with how shinny and bright green the grass came out and will need to to something else with the remaining figs to be painted.

(14) 15mm figs + 1 mortar @ 2 pts each = 30 pts + 20 for the chamber of “Traps” = 50 pts.

                                             Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure vorwärts!