MiniatureBrushworks Stuff

Since my FoW project is halted at 50pts now until my opponent geht’s some stuff done I got back to a project that I paused 2019.

My plan was to just build a british fleet at 1000pts but since I got a 3rd rate ship left over I thought building another fleet might be a nice Idea.

So after I finished the last vessel for my royal navy I started of with the spanish flagship.

The Santa Ana was a 112 gut 1st rate ship which took part at the battle of trafalgar. There she got into a brutal close quarter fight with collingwoods flagship HMS Royal Souvereign.

After our first game getting back into the rules we now tinker with the idea to replay the part of trafalgar were Collingwoods line clashed into the franco spanish fleet. Warlord games has written a scenario for this part of the battle of Trafalgar.

I tried to get the Santa Ana done in a more historical fashion than most of warlords paintjobs.

The yellow ochre I used got a bit of a brownish hue to distinguish them more from their british counterparts.

The rigging and crew miniatures aswell as the photo etched ratlines were a pain to ad so for the other ships I will use a more simple way.

Technically those 3 ships can give me a solid 1000pts list with lots of firepower. However the Santa Ana is cheap … like way to cheap. Maybe we will houserule something here.

The Bahama (74 gun 3rd rate) just need her flag while the Monarca (74 3rd rate aswell) is still wip. Both were present at trafalgar and will complete the spanish part of the scenario we want to play.

The last two units of the tank company were scouts.

One unit of AB 41 armoured cars and one unit of L6/40 light tanks.

Both units are designed and printed by me as its currently hard to get any from battlefront.

I forgot the exhaust pipes on the AB41 but for now I leave them like that.

Game wise these are funny little vehicles both capaple of dealing with light tanks if there spearhead dutys are done.

I finished the italian tanks of the Tobruk starter set leaving me with the two 88 and some printed recce vehicles to be done.

The base colour is just sand airbrushed over an desert yellow rattle can primer followed by standard way of varnish, pinwash, chipping, details, dirt, metallics.

For the decals I decidet to not use the insignias of the Ariete division as little to no pictures of real tanks showed them.

If I include the printed vehicles I can field the following 50p list.

HQ M14/41

4x M14/41

5x Semovente

2x 1 8.8cm gun

3x L6/40 recce tanks

3x AB41 armoured cars

I tested them last week and the game had a nice mad max feeling. Not much terrain, pretty aggressive, lots of somehow crappy vehicles.

After completing our late war armies a friend asked if we could start building some mid war forces.

To start we split up the Tobruk starter deal which got me 10 italian tanks and two mighty 88 guns for less then a box of tanks.

To give the little italian tanks a bit more character I decided to pack them with loads of stowage.

Excessive amounts of fuel and water cannisters were printed and together with tarps and backpacks aswell as sandbank armour out of green stuff give them the desert camping look.

To distinguish the formation commander I gavr him legst so he can now sit on top of his turret.

The last bit are the recce units. As they are not available at the moment (but I need the to build my first 50p force) and good stl are rare I decided to make my own.

The AB 41 armoured car is still wip but the L6/40 light tank came out good (well.. except that my printer f@#€ed up the tracks)

Next I will pait up all the tanks from the starter.

For my latest Flames of War army I decided to expand my german collection with vehicles that were still missing but is to iconic to not include. Tigers.

While searcing for a list I came across Kampfgruppe Hummel. A unit that was formed out of reserve, training and mainly old Tiger tanks. They recieved 14 Tigers in total.

They are cheap compared to the usual Tigers but almost all stats are decreased and a cross of 4+ and 8″ tactical isnt great. But I can field 10 Tigers and still got 20p left for some other stuff in a 100p list.

I used two of the late tiger boxes from bf to get all 10 but all having zimmerit coating ist that accurat. To show the mishmash I used both the different copulas and modeled lots of wear into the skirts.

I used a armoured brigade panzergrenadier company as a Support consisting of a platoon of grenadiers in SdKfz 251 transports, some anti air SdKfz and a unit of mortars. The afv are still wip.

I already managed to get a game done vs us paratroopers. It was a fun game but the lower skill, short tactical movement and 4+ cross is challenging, especially if minefields are present. The tanks that made it through terrain and mines got overwelmed my the paratroopers…

I hope that I can play a second game soon.

I recently got my hands on an adeptus titanicus starter set for a good price.

I decided to build up two forces using just the starter to use it for quick games. None of us really wanted to invest lots of money just to get playable forces.

For me the highlight within the Box came with the warhound titans. I love the Design of those small beasts.

The reavers are the big damage dealers within the Box.

Since decals for legio metalica and legio krytos are pretty hard to get I decidet to paint on the Logos freehand.

So next are the lancers.

We recently got back into playing Blood Red Skies and I took the opportunity to field a new unit of Luftwaffe planes.

The Me109 is one of my favorit planes and I already got a squadron of of the later developed Gustavs. So this time I decided to do the tropical Versionen the F with the addition of one of the  most famous ace. Hans Joachim Marseille, who achieved 158 kills before his tragic accident.

The planes are from ROC works as those come with free foam trays. I dont use the standard advantage system from Blood Red Skies but instead ball bearing magnets.

Next up are some printed Ju87 dive bombers which can be escorted by the Me109.

I finished the Warlord games starter deal for my regia marina fleet. Just a few little planes have to be done for the catapults and carrier.

These models paint up really nice especially due to the red and shite air identification stripes.

The base of the fleet is composed around the Littorio class battleship. I will need 6 more destroyers to finish the fleet to 1500pts. The Aquila carriers air group will hunt down enemy aircraft while the cheap destroyers guard of torpedos and screen the more important vessels like cruisers anf the battleship. I will see how this will work out.

Im currently working on the small aircraft for the carrier and the scouting planes for the cruisers and the battleship.

So while waiting for some replacement parts for my regia marina to arrive I painted the first 3 models of my Realitys Edge  crew.

I based the background around the same stuff they got as combined army in infinity. So alien races with highly developed technology and the ability to create biosynthetical bodies altering them for their needs.

Thats what I aimed to represent with painting them. The armour stuff should look a bit organic. Except for the skin of the hacker which is mostly human.

This was my first time in airbrush blending and it fastens up the painting progress so much.

For Realitys Edge this gives my my Showrunner which is a hacker (the Lady which is a hacker within infinity aswell) The big dude I play as an heavy cyborg with lmg. The heavy support unit with a big punch and quiet resilent. The smaller one is my tracer, a fast moving crewmember able do ignore obstacles.

I already got the last 4 models here which are more combined army minis. An umbra legat (those sich lord dudes) from the starter will be my close combat specialist and 3 of the batroid bots will become gangers which represent them quiet well.

I currently work on the Regia Marina ships of the Warlord Games fleet bundle. Since some of our mfmbers play VaS in the original scale aswell I thought this would be a good start for a rather unusual fleet.

The ships paint up really well and the red and white air identification stripes make them stand out on the gaming table quiet well.

Semper fi! I finished the first USMC platoon except for the SMAW weapon attachments.

These guys will thfn be cramped into the tracks and rush to were the action is.

I will at this point go all in and expand the force to  a full 105p army. Adding some M109 and LAV-25. M60 and VADS will join from my Israeli forces as I dont want to buy these multiple time while just playing them one at a time.

I managed to finish the M1A1 abrams tanks and the first transports for my marines.

For the abrsms I went with a modulation and tiny amount of streaking. The Amtracks got painted as usual in 2 Tone camouflage but thfn got a heavy oilwash to make them look really dusty.

Overall Im really happy with how they turn out.

My current project will be a small USMC force roughly in the 2003 era for Team Yankee.

Since TY is set currently more in the 80s and 90s using battlefront miniatures I have to made a lot of modifications.

The 3 main components of the force will contain:

3 M1A1 Abrams tanks

1 Marine Platoon riding in AAVs

1 CAAT Hummer platoon

I started modifying the M1 by sculpting a lot of extra parts in Blender to 3d print them and add them to the vehicles. Despite the stowage this included APUs for the bustle racks, a bustle  rack extension, deep wading adapters and a mine plow.

The AAVP7 just got stowage stuff. At the moment Im waiting to recieve some custom decals for the m1 to add some names to the barrels.

The marines were a bit more complicated.

Here I used green stuff to add flag vests (which cover the 80s webbing too), hoods for the MOPP suits and  goggles and NVG attachmets for the helmets.

The combined anti armour team or CAAT will be represented game wise as a hummwee scout section.

The only thing I added are some field modifications I found on pictures.

This little force is for Team Yankee not a playable army but we will use some home brew szenarios which forces players to use more modern equipment, stay away from Spam forces and are a bit more specialized and story driven.

This is one of the models which stood on my painting table for ages so I decidet to finish it.

Ignoring the Blood Bowl miniatures this is in my opinion one of the coolest GW models out there. I always liked the design from the movies. I still had to change the hood to made it perfect.

The armour part of my us list is done. Next up are infantrymen.

Im quiet happy with the dirty used look of this veteran Company.

Parallel im working on my King Tigers hoping to finish both forces by the end of the year.

I started working on an us cavalry squadron for a v3 fow project.

The project changed since then and I now went with an veteran tank company.

There are a few nice options of units I want to combine in one list wich was not that easy in v3 like the super pershing and the m12.

For now Im done with the dcals and now varnish, details and weathering are left.

The first unit is done. Elite infantry representing my leader Robert, Lord of Montigny and his highest ranking knights.

To represent this I choose a second livery from agincourt of a french knight to break the amount of generic ones. Pierre “the one eyed” de Noailles with yellow stripe over Red.

The rest just got  the white cross of St Denis over plain livery 2 of wich I painted green to go with the colour of the lord

The first unit is done. Elite infantry representing my leader Robert, Lord of Montigny and his highest ranking knights.

To represent this I choose a second livery from agincourt of a french knight to break the amount of generic ones. Pierre “the one eyed” de Noailles with yellow stripe over Red.

The rest just got  the white cross of St Denis over plain livery 2 of wich I painted green to go with the colour of the lord

Some years ago I got my hands on a single frame of Perry foot knights (agincourt). I really like the sculpts and thought about painting 2 of them in non metallic metal.

Now since I started those two guys the question came to mind what shall I do with them. Diorama? Over some more days I decided that I will build up a small french warband around the timeframe of agincourt. So I ordered a box of french infantry and decided on the Lion Rampant ruleset.

The last two knights wich I start painting were a test of how effective I can apply nmm without slowing it down to much. Still pretty slow with 3+ hours for two guys but there are not that much guys in full plate armour.

I will finish the unit of six knights and then I will see how fast I can do those normal foot dudes.

For the King Tiger platoon i went with two zvezda ones. The unit will be of the 511st (ex 502nd) heavy tank company.

The riders got some pea dot camo to bring in some interesting camo.