6-8 Weeks

First off, I"m beginning to hate this term. I wish I could simply return some of the stuff I've purchased in order to order it from a secondary company. But alas, I cannot - and neither can others that have stuff that is simply below par with respect to quality issues with Battlefront products.

Rudel's Stuka

By far the most difficult model I've done up to this point with my airbrush: Rudel. I wanted to recreate the camo pattern that was on the FoW website, but the one thing I didn't like on the aircraft there was the yellow stripe on the fuselage.

Rudel's Stuka

Wirblewinds and Ostwinds

I've been reading a lot lately about how big cats need some AA support, so I decided to pick up some Wirblewinds and Ostwinds to help protect them. While I normally play MW with my FoW group, I can't help but not get them - they just look cool.

Schwerer Panzerspähwagen - AKA 8-Rad's

After seeing one of my friend use these in a battle campaign - Kursk - I decided I needed to get a few of these. While I didn't get the 8 that I wanted, I started out with 4, since I'm always able to borrow some models (Thanks again Jeff).

One thing I have to say is that I'm glad that the wheels are mounted 2 per wheel set. I couldn't imagine if I had to put on 32 single wheels across all of the vehicles. The models I received are modeled very clean, as I didn't have to clean them up at all. nothing irritates me more than having to clean up some resin model due to there being extra "gloop" on the models - I'm looking at you Panzer III G platoon box set.

My boxes of goodies...

I recently ordered a buttload of items I needed to help me limit the amount of army borrowing that I've been doing lately. Among the items I purchased are:

• 2 boxes of the plastic Panzer IV H's
• 4 8-Rads
• 2 Ostwinds
• 2 Wirblewinds
• 4 BMW with sidecars
• Panzer III G Platoon (OOP box)
• Rudel and his Stuka

The postman hates me with all the packages that she had to deliver

I ordered these while I was on vacation and when I arrived home, I was lucky enough to have BF send me the 2 Premium houses that I've been waiting to be delivered next.

I spent most of the weekend building and painting the Panzer IV H's and last night I finally was able to decal them and apply a pin wash to 5 of the 10 tanks. After looking at them 5 that I didn't pin wash, I never realized how much the pin wash makes the details of the tank pop out. I also learned a valuable lesson: Never attach the turrets of the tanks until the next day after you varnish them.

While I didn't have any problems with a majority of the tanks, I had one tank where the turret stuck to the body of the tank and after slowly prying it off it managed to rip some of the paint off of my tank. It wasn't anything major (about the size of a dime and under the turret so you wouldn't see it unless the tank was destroyed), but I managed to touch up the spot and reapplied some varnish to the tank.

I'll post up some pictures of the tanks tomorrow when there is some sun outside to at least let me get some good photos of them. I'm about 75% done with them, as I need to do the finishing touches of adding detail touch ups to them (shovels, wrenches, etc.).