75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Army Build)

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Batch Painting a Load of German Stuff

May 3, 2019

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I’ve managed to accumulate a number of tanks and other German bits which all needs to be painted up. So I’m going to challenge myself to paint them all in one go and see how quickly I can knock them out. I’ll be using the same methods as described previously on this project, so I won’t go into a lot of detail.

Here’s what I have

2 Elephants. These are the Zvezda kits. The first Company of the 653 Panzerjager Abteilung was deployed to Italy in February 1944 to the Anzio beach head but also took part in battles at Nettuno and Cisterna.

4 Tigers. These are the PSC kits. 508 Schwere Panzer Abteilung was a new formation when it was deployed at Anzio. It was teamed up with the Elephants and placed into 69th Panzerregiment under the Herman Goring Fallschirmjagerdivision

2 Flammpanzer III. These are the Zvezda kits. 26th PanzerDivision had an entire company of Flammpanzers in March of 1944. As they took losses, they were attached to other tank platoons as support.

2 Panzer IV/70. These are the Battlefront resin/metal kits (urgh!). These arrived much later in Italy, around October 1944 and were attached to 26th PanzerDivision.

5 8-Rad heavy scout vehicles. These are the PSC kits. 26th PanzerDivision had a few of these in their ranks.