Panzer IV F1/F2's

Continuing with my DAK tanks, I've added some Panzer IV F1/F2's with modifications I made to the Panzer III J's for barrel swapping.

Panzer III J's

To help grow my DAK army, I've painted up some Panzer III J's. Rather than settle with a specific gun for each model, I made them modular. I was toying with the idea of using magnets, but I thought that the size of magnets needed to keep the barrels in place would be too large. So after thinking about the situation for a while, I came up with a simple solution - pegs.

Leopard 2 Preview

As I mentioned in a previous post, I won a box set of the Leopard 2 (TGBX01) from Battlefront during their "Leopard Weekend". Well it arrived today!

DAK Marder III (7.62cm)

After looking at my Marders that I painted several years ago and deciding that their paint job didn't do they justice, I stripped them down and repainted them. Since I've been using my DAK army a lot lately, I wanted to add them to my force (since this specific model was used in North Africa).  The paint scheme needed to match that period, not to mention my current DAK theme, so Desert Yellow was called upon once more.

DAK Pioneer and HMG platoons

Continuing with my DAK army, I've finished the Pioneers and HMG platoons I needed to help round out my army. It seems that every time I try to use my DAK list, my opponents always seem to be running tank lists. To help beef up the survivability of my 15. Panzerkompanie, I decided I needed some pioneers.

Swappable Infantry

I've been asked a few times on Facebook how I've used magnets to create hot-swappable infantry on my bases. Since this seems to be an interesting subject people want to know about I thought I'd come up with a tutorial on why and how I do this.

DAK Kradschützen Platoon

Continuing to add to my DAK army, I've added the DAK Kradschützen!

Photo courtesy: Flames of War

7.5cm leIG18 gun

The 7.5cm leichte Infantriegeschutz 18 (7.5cm le.IG 18), during World War II, was an infantry support gun of the German Wehrmacht.

Sd.Kfz.6/3 'Diana'

The SdKfz 6 was a half-track that was utilized by the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Schützen Platoon (Afrika)

The Afrika Korps or German Africa Corps was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of their African colonies, the formation fought on in Africa, under various appellations, from March 1941 until its surrender in May 1943. The term "Afrika Korps" is actually pseudo-German, deriving from an incomplete German title, which was in any case written as a single word. The German term referred solely to the initial formation, the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK), which formed part of the Axis command of the German and Italian forces in North Africa. However, the name stuck, with both news media and Allied soldiers, as the name for all subsequent German units in North Africa. The reputation of the Afrika Korps is closely associated with that of its original commander, Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel.

Captured Honey Stuarts

I've started to construct a DAK army, more specifically the 15. Panzer  German Schutzen list from North Africa. Since I wanted to bring Rommel along in this army, I figured he needed some support, so I picked up a Honey Armoured Platoon (BBX25) box set.

Panther/Jagdpanther Swappable Hulls Part 2

Well I finished painting up, decaling, and sealing the tanks. Since pictures wouldn't show you how these work, I made a video detailing how they can be swapped out. Forgive the crappy video skills, my 11 year old was helping me:

Panther/Jagdpanther Swappable Hulls

After picking up the Panther/Jagdpanther boxset (GBX84) from Battlefront, I wanted the option to make 10 tanks instead of 5. As there are only 5 lower hull assemblies in the set, I needed to come up with a solution to make the upper hulls swappable. After seeing other people do this, I came up with a relatively simple solution to accomplish this.

Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B

The Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B was a German self-propelled heavy infantry gun used during World War II. A new, fully enclosed, and heavily armored boxy casemate superstructure was built on the chassis of the Sturmgeschütz III. It mounted the improved sIG 33/1 infantry gun, offset to the right side, for which 30 rounds were carried.

Panzer IV/70 Platoon

As of late, I've always steered away from picking this type of platoon in any of my lists due to me not having any of the models. I finally decided to pick up a box of these in hopes of trying them out on the battlefield.

Volksstrum

After several weeks of painting here and there with these guys, I finally finished them. They are now ready to defend Berlin to the bitter end.

Otto Carius in his Jagdtiger

I finished up Carius in his Jagdtiger yesterday. since the sun was out this afternoon, I decided to take some pictures of him and his tank.

This was my first (and second) attempt at hard edge camo.I learned a few things from the first attempt, that I corrected in the subsequent second attempt.

Sd Kfz 251/20D Uhu Painted

I recently completed painting up my UHU's, and you can see the results below. I'm waiting on the decals I ordered from Dom's Decals to arrive in in the mail and once they arrive I'll add some balkenkreuz to them.

More picture inside....

Sd Kfz 251/20D Uhu Review

One of the birthday gifts that my wife and kids bought me arrived in the mail yesterday from The War Store - the German Sd Kfz 251/20D Uhu.

Shattered Battlefields - Review

Now that hockey is winding down for my two boys, I'm finally able to have more time for my hobbies. I'm finally able to pull a few of the gifts I received for Christmas and my birthday out and I'm going to write a few reviews of them.

The gaming group I belong to decided to give the Great War a spin, and since I bought Biltz's Battlegroup, I needed some scenery to go with it. So one of my gifts was the Battlefield in a Box set Shattered Battlefields.