Ewok’s Desert War

I decided to chip away at my mountain of WW2 vehicles . I tried a different methodology with these kits. I primed the kits on the sprues rather than building and priming.

The end result is I ended up with two finished models as opposed to a primed model awaiting painting.

Winning!

I dug out 12 SAS figures to paint and try some colour schemes. I want to give them a less uniform look than regular 8th Army infantry.

These were fun to paint and I am quite pleased with the results. My blended wash seems to have gone dark, but I went with it

I had a bit of a flurry and threw a few vehicles together over the last few days

This will be brief! Haven’t done a great deal more, but I did find time to prep and prime a bunch of DAK and LRDG minis from Offensive Miniatures and Artisan respectively.

Finished my Priest for the desert rats, quite pleased with it.

Having been on a guided tour of Warlord Games, I was presented with a free sprue of Italians. So naturally I ended up buying a starter army to keep it company, they were 15% off. I then experienced a major lapse in impulse control and now have a lot more things to build!

I also picked up a few more British units and some more LRDG guys. I plan to paint their uniforms in a variety of shades as they are a pretty rag tag bunch. I’ll keep the 8th Army troop uniforms a little more er… uniform?

It’s a little publicised story about the Alpini in North Africa, but several platoons of the Alpini were attached to the Arditi x, the Italian special forces, and saw some desert action. The reason it’s overlooked by the history books is that I made it up. They looked cool on the box and one of them was painted desert style.

Apparently they spent most of their time in the Alps bothering the French. But they look cool.

Finished my Italian artillery unit and established a paint scheme for my Bersaglieri. Quite happy with the results.

Helmet and breeches – Barren Dune

Tunic- Wasteland Clay

Puttees- Tundra Taupe

Boots and belt- Leather Brown

Rifle-Vallejo Flat Brown and German Camo Black Brown

Having binged Rogue Heroes over the weekend I decided to tackle some of the allied vehicles.

I started with a Warlord Games Valentine II , it was a surprisingly crisp and detailed resin print. Very easy to put together.

Next up was a Rubicon Valentine, after some initial confusion with the instructions it went together pretty well.

The metal models (with no instructions) were a very challenging building exercise. No doubt there will be historical inaccuracies all over the place. I don’t care, I think they look cool .

I wanted to get an idea of how the trenches would look on the table with other bits I had printed. It’s only on a 3×3 for the featured pictures. It will be more spread out when it finally hits a 6×4 table.