Bob does Weird War

For the Fireflys I pretty much for the scheme on the box art. The Base uniform , was a mix of Army Painters Malignant Green and Palid Bone in a 50/50 mix in an attempt to match that light tarnish colour.  Jump boots were done in Citadel Contrast Wyrdwood. Belts , jump packs etc was my old favorite Forest Sprite, though the helmets ever done in Army Painter Malignant Green. Weapon stocks were leather Brown with metalwork done in Atmy Painter Enchanted Steel.

Then the figures  was given the now traditional Agrax Earthshade wash thinned about 50/50 with water.

Post above drying the white and blue Tesla effect was added to wpns and faces were applicable finished.

The bases were done as were the German Powered Armour.

I did 3 Thompson X squads, one I added a Auto Rifle  but on watching the various let’s Plays,  on subsequent squads went for Flame Throwers instead.

With the 6 spare figures I did an Artillery Spotter team, 2x extra men for Commander escort and another Flame Thrower team…

Why not!

The Roberta Wells and the Firefly Officer ( dressed as was David Schwimmer in Band of Brothers) were dome in similar fashion, other than Roberta’s jacket was done on white base with Apothocary White Contrast, and The officers leather done in Leather Brown Apropriatly.

To Finish off my German Force,  I added a Panzer IV X, which I did the X Turret and a Standard Panzer IV H turret, plus a Late Stug, whichhad been sitting on the downstairs hobby table,  built and base coated over a year.

Both were doen I  the same Winter Scheme, used o  the Powered Armour and the Walkers. Again as with the walkers the lower part of the Hulls were given a neat Agrax Eartshade wash ro represent dirty water from melting snow  and then another dry brush of white was done for newly fallen snow.

Both the Panzer IV H and Stug are awaiting crew figures at some point.

The Catalyst for this project was the purchase of a Konflikt beginner and starter box. I wasn’t sure I needed 2 of each side mechs,  but having looked through Festing Europa , figured I’d a platoon of Fireloes for the Americans and A platoon of Stahltruppen.

With the latter I had decided on a winter scheme, to fit in with my late WW2 winter Europe theme.

This meant everything could get a base Colour Forge White coat, with a wash of GW contrast Apothocary White for base shading. Cammo blobs of GW contrast Gryph Charger Grey were then added,  with it all getting a dry brush, of Army Painter White, to bring back the white on highlights and to weather the Cammo.

Speedpaint Grim Black was used on the face masks and the various armour joints. Metallics were done in Speedpaints Enchanted Steel.

Then a thin coat of Nuln oil was given to whole model, and once it dried another light dry brush of white. The Metallics were then dry brushed Army Painter Shinning Silver for contrast.

The bases were done with a sprinkling of of a wasteland rubble, and some snow effect textured paint by AK Interactive.

The Decals are just Generic German decals from left overs from various Bolt Action and Rubicon kits .

The Resin leader was done with a similar method, with a Speedpaint Bright red lining and Cammo  Cloak for his cape.

The Light mech from the Starter set  followed the theme , the main difference being Iadded weathering on the legs, using neat Agrax Earthshade .

I had got some old Konflikt and Dust which I now needed to winter to fit in with the theme, So I started with the old Light Walker ‘The Spinne’ which had originally been done in the yellow cammo scheme, which I now carefully wintere using a sponge with Army Painter White, and adding The AK white textured paint on the base.

The Commander was actually 1/48th figure from an old Tamiya model.

I hadn’t really any plans for this year’s Spring Challenge and hadn’t really considered it much even when I decided to re jump.into the Konflikt 47 with its re-launch. I had a few bits brought a few years ago sitting partly built and painted .The original plan was to build the new American Airborne forces , and the German Powered Armoured units. I was planning to build a British force, and will be getting the Robot Infantry. But digging through boxes realised I have a ton of both Dust and Secret of 3rd Reich, which is actually painted which includes a platoon of Infantry, a squad of powered Armour Infantry including re-oncarnation of Arthur, courtesy of West Wind, plus a plethora of Walkers from Dust, all painted up as 11th Armoured. In addition I have an equivalent no of German Walkers via Dust. One example of my current collection is the Projects cover photo of a DUST mech, which had to be taken about 18 years ago.

All should be easily designed and fitted in to the background, having quickly scanned the rules.

Now obviously they won’t be totally cannon , but I don’t play tournaments, and as I tend to play narrative driven games , getting points balanced won’t be a big problem.

So Now the plan is to gig them out and add them to my new models, with a bit of re-painting and tidying up. Most of it will be wintering them all, as I intend to continue my Winter War theme fro my Bulge Project. Which with the weird weather that the wars wonder weapons produce is the most likely weather encounter in most of the European battle settings.

So here are some examples of my older figures that will need some wintering.

Now how did these compare scale wise with the new slightly larger Konflikt 47. Judge for your self.

From table distances doubt if anyone will notice. The slight raised bases on the older figures hide a lot.

Won’t stop me buying a couple of sets of the new Galahad Armoured British as they will do nicely for SAS/Commando’s.