Stuff what I been painting

I’ve spent quite a few hours with the Panzer Grenadiers painting german field grey, german camo, dark green, black-brown and many other drab colours. All very correct for late war German Heer uniforms, but drab none the less.

Time for a quick palate cleanser. I’ve had my Blood Bowl set knocking around for some time and I’ve mostly painted the miniatures but not bothered with the counters. Time to rectify this! These were painted quickly and didn’t require a lot of shading and highlighting. And the lovely blues and reds certainly made a difference during the painting session!

So nothing technical, amazing or clever, just a bit less grey plastic in my pile of shame.

Just finished these fellas.

With the changes to Flames of War in 4th edition, items like panzerfausts and panzerschrecks have different basing and numbers. My old panzergrenadiers weren’t quite WYSIWYG. While I’m sure that most players wouldn’t care, I decided it was time to upgrade my Panzergrenadier company. This particular company is made up of Rifle/MG platoons. I’m working on a separate company that’s made up of MG teams.

Most of the models are a mixture of the plastic Battlefront or PSC models but to get a good mix of the panzerfausts and panzerschrecks, I went to Skytrex and picked up some of the metal miniatures they do. While I was there I also picked up some of their MG teams to give some more variation.

This lot will join my 26th Panzer Division in their defence of Italy.

Here’s a couple of stout, bearded folk that I painted up as characters for use in (correctly, I might add) a role playing game. What’s the point of collecting miniatures if you aren’t going to to use them in games? And RPGs are games after all!