Infantry Company Finished (at last!)

Last Night I wrote how I had brought my first infantry company back from a mishap with Dip, so in this post I'll add the Photos of how they turned out.

Here is the full Company as per Battlegroup Kursk, All miniatures by Elhiem, CP, TQD and Zvezda or my own conversions based there upon.

The Company Command Squad

The First Platoon

Close ups

The Second Platoon

Close Ups

Third Platoon

Close Ups

And here are a few extra bits and pieces that I painted up at the same time.
Sniper, Spotter and Medic

Sapper Squad

And lastly a miscellaneous bunch that will be carried over to the next Company including a Anti-Tank rifle.

So that's it for now, on the painting table are the support options for this Company, Three Maxims, a 45mm Anti-Tank gun, a 76.2mm Infantry Gun and a 50mm Mortar plus additional loader teams and Horse drawn limbers for the guns.

Well that's it Until next time.

Happy Painting

Mike

Dip Disaster and another stage in Infantry painting.

I have spent a frustrating night re-highlighting one hundred and thirty Infantry after a near disaster with Army Painter Strong Tone Dip,
I have always painted my infantry by base coating, brushing on Dip then Matt varnishing. But today with haste to get a load of infantry ready for picture taking this blog post (Well you have to get photos in good light don't you?) I neglected to leave the Dip layer to harden properly before brushing on Vallejo Matt varnish. to my horror as the varnish dried small scaly areas began to appear before my eyes in prominent areas of every miniature.
I had  to come up with a plan and luckily the first plan worked - I let the Matt varnish dry completely, then brushed on Army Painter Soft Tone Ink which hid my earlier blunder and to my extreme happiness none of the scales showed through, but each miniature was far too dark for my tastes and the day light had started dulling so I knew that there would be no photo taking today.
I knew what I had to do, so I grabbed my smallest brush and began to highlight the minis all over with the base colours, by the time I had done all 130 it was 2:30 in the morning,
So......I'm off to bed, I'll post pictures of today's (or is it yesterday's) efforts tomorrow (or today) but at least I have a full Russian Infantry Company painted for Kursk.

Happy Painting

Mike

The start of the AFV slogg!

Well, It has been a while but it's time to continue this thread, I'll begin with a group shot, poor photo as it is.

I have spent the past couple of months practicing with my airbrush, and it's so fun, I love it, so what better way to play with a new toy than paint a few tanks?
Well here are the results, I've posted these before but here are some close ups PSC T70s

Some PSC T-34-76s, all with added stowage, new grab-rails and crew from Britannia

and the close ups

A couple of Pegasus Hobbies KV1-e, with extra stowage and new barrels from RB

 and some close ups

2 122mm Howitzers from Zvezda with extra PSC crew

 A Zvezda 85mm AA gun in Tank Hunting role, I need to add a load of ammo crates and other bits when I get them, the base looks a bit bare.

My Horse drawn supply wagons, from HaT with converted and Britannia drivers, plus a guy from Zvezda having a sly Ciggie

 

and finally an Airfix Yak9d. not airbrushed this time but I will in future, hand brushing aircraft takes so damn long

 

Well, as you can see I've not been idle, but plenty more where those came from soon.


Mike

First 3 T-70s and an Airbrush test

After getting out the Airbrush for the first time I have some T-70s for Batthegroup Kursk Painted up, I think next time a bigger difference in tone between base colour and highlight is in order.

I added Turret lift rings and a HaT tank commander, Decals from PSC and Military Wheels
Any comments or criticisms are welcome (I've just noticed that the mantlet lift rings are missing on 2 of them)