Neves1789’s Wargaming Collection

My US collection so far contains an Armored Rifle Company and a Parachute Landing Company of the 82nd.

All speedpainted although I did do some highlighting on the vehicles.

This army was started with the contents of the old Open Fire starterset. I gradually built on it until I had a full infantry, motorised and Sherman army (for which I won a best painted award ^^ ). Most of the stuff however is just basic paint and wash.

Last year I added in the Churchills, putting extra effort into the paintjob, airbrushing on low psi with thin layers and then doing multiple types of chipping and weathering. The camo netting was all handmade out of thin paper strips. This army won a best painted award twice already 😀

Edit: the rubber bands were an old method to differentiate the units.

The third part of my Normandy Germans are the Fallschirmjäger. A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to pick up the metal box of figures. They’ve been in storage for a while, but thanks to covid I had a chance this year to paint them (again in basic colours with a wash).

Also, please wear more camosmocks you c*nts…

Part 2 of my Normandy Germans are the panzer divisions. As with the first part, most of this stuff is old or speedpainted. I really learned a lot on these models, trying out different techniques. The first were done with dunkelgelb spraycans, others with a single airbrush layer, the later ones with a couple of layers and then too heavily weathered… A mixed bag but very fun to play!

A recent addition are the Panzer Lehr infantry (the ones with the fancy panzer jackets that you don’t see on the models 😀 )

My real big Flames of War project is my Normandy collection. When I jumped into FoW all those years ago, I decided to collect every major type of formation in the theatre. That turned out to be a far bigger challenge than I expected 😀

The main rule that I had for this project was that everything was just going to be tabletop quality painted. So most things here have a single colour and a wash.

The first big part of that collection are my beach defenders, representing the 352nd and 716th infantry divisions that defended Normandy.

Most of this stuff has been added on through the years and are from many different manufacturers.

This second part of Soviets contains all the tanks and vehicles.

The paintscheme is pretty basic; white basecoat (sometimes in multiple layers), green sponge chipping, green enamel wash and rust streaks. Then just mud up the tracks and add some snow!

The Churchill tanks were part of my ETC army, so I took a little more time with them (but still followed the same basic recipe).

My FoW Soviets were started on the simple principle of ‘only buy them on the cheap’.  And I did, by the bucketload…

The Strelkovy in front are my most recent addition to the army and were speedpainted with a basic cityrubble base.

The Motostrelkovy, support weapons and guns on the scenic bases took a lot more time to paint, but I won a couple of ‘best painted army’ awards with it, so totally worth it! 😀

Here’s the first of my WW2 Flames of War armies, the Deutches Afrika Korps or DAK for short.

Most of these models were collected throughout the years (yay hording), the core of the infantry and trucks being from the old DAK Panzergren box (which I got on the cheap in a sale). I added a bunch of small details like kettenkrads, a radiocar, captured trucks etc

Painting on these started about three years ago when I needed them for the German Grand Tournament. I didn’t have a lot of time, so I glued them all to the bases and gave everything a basecoat and a wash. This made it a real pain to highlight them completely for the second tournament I used them in.

Due to time contraints, I only gave the bases minimal attention (an acyrlic paste), so I’ll have to go back and fix that. This was also the first army that I completely used airbrush to paint and enamels to weather the vehicles. I can now see plenty of mistakes, but atleast they’re painted ^^