More fallschirmjäger

I have just finished off some more offensive fallschirmjäger. Only two more to go now for the full platoon plus various supports. The two remaining guys I am converting to be a LMG team as I was one short for a chain of command platoon.

I have also finished off a few Foundry Home guard figures that I bought second hand at a show and picked up just to paint for fun rather than for a particular force.

My eldest has also just bought Deadzone and I have been assigned the Plague faction (I always get given the bad guys). They are going to be a bit of a distraction from the main projects but they look fun to paint and I have a scheme in mind that should come together quickly.

Fallschirmjäger Panzershrek

 fallschirmjäger LMG teams

Squad Leader

Fallschirmjäger Panzerfausts (The guy in the middle is a great sculpt)

More guys for the squads

WW2 Trucks

I would like some trucks for my WW2 forces but I am reluctant to buy those from Warlord etc as they come in at £18-20 each. This is a bit much for something that is likely to be killed pretty quick in a game or that will only be on board a short time as troops are dropped off.

One solution I have seen to this is to use Lledo days gone by die cast vehicles. I had a quick look on ebay and managed to pick up a couple of trucks for a total of £3.50 including postage. They certainly match the cheaper requirement then!

One thing I was worried about was the scale. They don’t have a scale listed and as far as I was able to tell the scale various between models as they are modeled to fit the box rather than a consistent scale over the range. I think they actually fit pretty well although they are possibly a bit on the small size. I will let you judge that based on the photos below.

The figures in the picture are a warlord and an Offensive miniatures Fallshirmjager

The trucks are pretty much the same size as this Die Waffenkammer sdkfz 251.

I do have a Warlord games German Phanomen truck coming soon that I got for a good price second hand. Once this arrives I will put up some pictures comparing this to the Lledo trucks as that will probably given an even better idea of scale. It’s a shame that I can’t seem to find and die cast German trucks such as an Opel Blitz so my German forces might have to be in captured trucks.

I am also going to be repainting these as I suspect going to war in a birds custard van would be frowned on.

US Armour

I have not finished anything for a week or so because I have been concentrating on getting stuff base coated. I should have a few bits done soon but having nothing new to show I thought I would put up a couple of pictures of bits I have done previously. In a bit of a departure from the previous posts I went for some US armour I have painted up.

These are both Warlord games.

Warlord Games Greyhound

Sherman Front

More WW2 finished photos

A few more bits. The FOO team and the MG42 team were painted in the last week or so the other bits were things painted earlier on that I have just got round to photographing.

To finish off the FOO team fully I need to find something suitable for the areal on the radios. I have seen brush bristles suggested several time but none of the brushes in the house seemed to be suitable. I will have a hunt through the brushes next time I am at the shops to see if I can find anything better.

At the moment I seem to be in the mood for painting infantry figures so I have been making the most of this particular batch of motivation. On the workbench I have a load of US infantry and the last of the airborne. I have tried doing things a little differently and I have got pretty much every US figure I have base coated and washed so I can now work through and highlight them up.

I also have just got the last of the Fallschirmjager figures I needed to finish off a platoon for Chain of Command. These are Offensive miniatures figures again and are currently in the process of getting primed. I think they might jump the queue over the US guys as I really enjoyed painting the last batch and it would be good to get the platoon all done.

Heer MG42 team

FOO team

Heer Mortar

Panzershreck

Warlord games plastic 251