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With Arrowhead selling up (and hopefully finding a buyer for the business), I recently picked up a small set of Late War British vehicles to round out my army for BKC.
It's two Cromwells (giving me a troop of 3 in total) and a fabulous scene-stealing Staghound
The unit markings are a bit of everything really, just to get some colour onto the models - which are really great little kits. Vallejo Bronze Green is the go-to colour (of course)
Fingers crossed someone picks the range up and carries on with it.
I'm always happy to have the chance to pick up some stuff from Redders at Red3 when I go down to the PAW show in Plymouth, and this January with the show returning after a Covid hiatus that meant a small but perfectly formed purchase of half track support options for my existing German Panzergrenadier force.
Having managed to remember what paints I'd used to do the last lot I managed to get these three done fairly quickly - it's always motivating when the casts are so crisp and go together so well.
Here you have two late-war 251's (the single sloped back to the body apparently gives it away) with the 251/9 75mm short support gun and the longer barrelled 251/22 with Pak 40 options, along with a 250/7 with mortar team included.
As is usual with Red3, the guns and crew are a separate, one-piece casting that just slots straight into the back of the vehicle really neatly, so you can paint it before dropping it into place.
And now all three are ready to support my Panzergrenadiers as they roll into combat on a 10mm tabletop in the near future !
What with Victrix selling their 1/144th scale tanks in rather unruly packs of 6, and already having some of their "standard" Shermans the OCD Wargamer in me has been dithering for quite some time about whether I should replace my perfectly servicable (..yet not quite the same as the Victrix ones) Fireflies, I think from PIthead, with some from Victrix to match the rest of the fleet.
Having been unable to find any on eBay at a sensible price, this had been going on for some time until finally a mate suddenly decided he wanted some too, so the possibility of a pack-split became the solution to my tight-fisted dilemma
And this is the result:
Yes, three rather spiffy British Firefly Shermans, with 17pdr long barrel guns painted in Vallejo Tank Colour Bronze Green.
The guns were so long - and also so thin - that I managed to break one in half while putting the transfers onto the front of the tank hull, and then a second one also snapped whilst showing it to my webcam when recording the latest Madaxeman Podcast.
So, I replaced the barrels by snipping them off flush with the mantlet, drilling a hole (very easy with this plastic) and glueing in place a length of broom bristle. They were pretty much exactly as thick as the barrel supplied with the tanks, and are flexible enough to never break.
The final touch was to add a smoke extractor at the end of each barrel.
This I cheatingly got away with by just dabbing a blob of extra paint on the end of the bristle, which at this scale gives a bit extra thickness that does actually look close enough for government work to being a muzzle brake smoke extractor thingy.
With a real competition looming, the personal painting has been tricky to fit in lately however the eBay campaign for selling Clive's stuff has thrown up some really nice armies this week, all of which are on eBay under my eBay ID of the_lithuanian
The pick of the bunch is certainly this very, very nice (and large) 15mm Flames of War Italian army, with loads of customized options.
There's so many figures, guns and tanks it'll be shipped in 2 separate boxes!
Also on the FoW front is this stunning Finnish army, with what looks like spring/summer and winter options.
Not sure I've ever really seen that painting technique used on tanks that well before now.
On a totally different vein, there's also an "old school" Hinchcliffe/Garrisson/Lamming style Hellenistic Successor army that would make a perfect ADLG Successor force (with a spot of rebasing and some minor repairs)
One of our club members, Clive McLeod sadly passed away a little while ago, and I'm now one of the people helping his family sort through and dispose of his wargaming collection.
He had a number of rather nice Flames of War armies, but with not all that much FoW being played at CLWC at the moment I'm now listing a couple of them on eBay now, and will be posting another one later, with all proceeded going back to Clive's family.
The armies listed at the moment include a rather stunning Free Polish Armoured Division and a large many-options Hungarian force. In a couple of weeks (possibly after the new FoW book comes out on June 13th) I'll also be listing a brilliantly customized Hungarian Student Defence Brigade army complete with custom-made "comedy" booby-traps - although if you remember seeing it on-table somewhere before and are keen on it please get in touch directly.
More than a year after picking up some new 10mm tanks from Red3 at the PAW show in Plymouth, I've finally finished the daunting project of re-doing my WW2 10mm German forces, all with a coherent, hand-painted 3-tone cammo scheme.
Puma, from Arrowhead - a stunningly detailed multi-part metal kit
Dragon King Tiger, with Arrowhead tank riders. I left their faces un-inked to make them pop a little more at this small scale.
Arrowhead Tiger 1's - another stunning model
Pendraken Wirbelwind
Pendraken (I think?) Quad AA
Pithead Diana. I know they were only used in the desert, but I ordered this one by accident and hey, one 'might' have been cobbled together and saved for later...?
Nashorn from Minifigs.
Arrowhead StuG with tank riders
Front view.
Theree StuGs. From left to right, Arrowhead new kit, Pendraken old casting with Arrowhead barrel, Arrowhead now-discontinued one-piece model
Old & new Arrowhead StuGs
Red3 PzIV Really clean two piece casting (turret and "the rest")
Arrowhead PzIV with no Shurzen
Butlers Printed Models Steyr truck. A lot of printing lines on these which the cammo just about hides at wargaming distances.
Dragon pre-paint JagdTiger. The barrel melted when I was stripping the old paint job, so I bodged together a rather unappealing substitute.
Arrowhead 88. Something like 2.3 million pieces in this kit - but worth it!
Arrowhead and Pendraken 88's side by side
Pendraken Pak40. Crew could be anyones - I mixed them up
