The desk needed a good clean so over the last few days been spending a bit of time tidying up a few odds and ends.
Moving on with the Bundeswehr for Team Yankee, this time with a zug of Gepards to keep the skies clear.
The process for the camo painting is now nailed down and is speeding up the overall painting time. After the base coat of refractive green working it's down to one colour on each vehicle before moving on to the next. Keeping this in line is helping, that along with a tidier work space.
Jaguars and more Leopards in the future too.
Cheers for now.
Moving forwards with the Bundeswehr M109 self propelled artillery for Team Yankee. Dry brush and gloss varnish at the next session then decals, oil wash and final matt varnishing.
Simples, then to finish some infantry stands and Marder 1s. Nothing to it, save some Gepards, Leopard 2s and a few other AFVs.
Cheers for now.
Spent some time last night blocking the base colours for the first Panzergrenadier Zug. The figures are all from Battlefront and despite a bit of flash and mould lines here and there are generally good.
The zug includes three Milan 1s, a Carl Gustav, and four teams armed with an assortment of G3 battle rifles and MG3 machine guns.
A couple sessions base coating a few different AFV for the Team Yankee Bundeswehr.
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| M113 Observer and M109 Field Artillery zug |
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| Marder 1 zug |
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| Leopard 2A5 zug |
Recently shown as my first entry to this year's Painting Challenge and it's something a bit different. Well painting German AFV isn't that new, however the scale and period are: 15mm Cold War
The Cold War is a new period here, although having grown up during the seventies and eighties under the shadow of a naval base in Scotland there are elements that seemed all too real. When deciding to paint these models, I wanted to recreate that shadow, to show AFVs that have left their bases and are own their own.
The models are from Battlefront's Team Yankee range and show Leopard 1s in NATO three colour camouflage. The first set of pictures show the HQ section of the Panzer Kompanie, followed by the first of two panzer zug.
The models have gone through several stages to achieve the look shown:
Hope that everyone enjoys this post and already working on more for this period and others for future posts.
Cheers for now
