Neb's, MG's and Warriors

This weekend I finished up my two 21cm Nebelwerfers plastoons, a FJ Machine gun platoon, General Major Remer and SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl-Heinz Euling . I'm awaiting on a replacement Nebelwerfer from BF since one that was packaged in my one blister was miscast - BADLY.

European Houses - Review

After a year plus of waiting for some Battlefield In a Box houses I ordered from The War Store, my 3 houses finally arrived. Inside of the box where:

• Dieppe House
• Antwerp House
• Cherbourg House

Hetzers!

After playing World of Tanks using a Hetzer and being quite successful with it, I had to paint these guys up. They have been on my shelf for way too long, just taunting me to paint them up. Last night I had some time to paint them up so I tried something new - dot camo.

Cold Kitty, Panther kitty....

Big machines of doom, Deadly kitty Panther kitty BOOM BOOM BOOM!

These aren't finished, but I thought I would throw up a few pictures of them since I'm at a stand still until my paints arrive in the mail. I ran out of Tamiya X-22 Gloss, so I'm unable to dull coat them to apply the finishing touches to the tools, cables, etc.

Dismounted Begleit tank escorts

I finished painting the dismounted portion of the Begleit Tank Escorts today. I decided to paint them up using the summer oak leaf camo pattern so they would stand out on the table if they were forced to dismount from the tank(s). I ran out of pumice paste last night, so once I have a chance to run up to Michael's (my wife gets a nice teacher discount) to get some I'll finish these guys up.

Mortar Teams

I painted up my mortar team this weekend, in between hockey games for my kids. While I've yet to use mortar teams in the past, I felt I needed a set since I don't really like to borrow other people's miniatures.

Riders on the move...

I finished up my Begleit Tank Escorts this weekend.While I was wondering what I could do to conceal the wire between the riders, after putting them on the tanks, I don't think I'll need to worry. The wire, when painted black makes it almost impossible to see when you are at tabletop length away from them. I think they turned out pretty good, considering that I'll probably only get to use them once or twice if I'm lucky.  I just like the look of them on the top of my STuG's.

Removable Begleit Tank Escorts

I've wanted to make Begleit tank riders removable for a while since I've seen them in the Late War catalog. I didn't want to have them always be glued/pinned to the tank, so I decide to do something different. I was originally going to magnetize them, but that would mean I would have to find ever super small magnets to fit into the riders as well as on the tank. this wasn't going to cut it for me, so I decided to have some pinning wire go between the riders so that they supported each other.

First off I needed a set of super small drill bits as well as pinning wire. I managed to have my neighbor supply me with both a 0.55mm drill bit and some 0.5mm wire rod.

Drill bit on the left, wire rod on the right

That's a lot of lead...

I spent most of last night cleaning and gluing multiple blisters of figures down to popsicle sticks last night.

What you see here so far is:

• Warriors of Market Garder
• FJ Machine gun platoon
• Begleit Assault platoon
• 21cm NW42 rocket launcher 
• 8cm GW34 mortar platoon
• Generalmajor Remer

I still have about 5 more blisters worth of figures to glue to sticks but I don't wan tto overwhelm myself with too many infantry at a time.

After proxying Remer so many times, I decided to buy his blister. He's always been a good warrior for me, so he deserves to be painted up and used right, if only to intimidate my foes.

First though, I just need to finish up some little touches here and there on the tanks I recently finished. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to prime and start work on these guys.

My New Airbrush Results

So I finally received my new GREX Tritium TS airbrush set for my birthday. I have to say, while it's the first airbrush I've owned and used, it is SUPER easy to use. I was able to lay down nice clean base coats, as well as 3 color camo patterns on all of my tanks and half-tracks that needed some loving.

I was able to clean off about 80% of my shelf of shame tanks in my first outing using the airbrush. The only thing I didn't tackle yet, is the hard edge camo patterns I plan to use on my Panther G's. I need to save up to get some blue tack or Silly Putty to put the edging on.

So, without further ado, here are some pictures...

Pre-Pin Wash

Post-Pin Wash

What do you folks think? I still need to finish up the tracks and add antennas to the tanks, but at least it's stuff I can knock out as time permits.