The South will rise again 1: First trial figures

Back from vacation I photographed some trial figures I finished before leaving Germany for some days in the sun. As the rather pathetic title allready suggests it's about Confederates for the American Civil War.
With the release of the new plastics Confederates by Perry-Miniatures I decided to finally give the whole ACW  thing a go.

Figures are a mix of the new Confederates plastics and the old Infantry set from the Perrys. Both sets in my oppinion give you some bang for your bugs. They are a bit fiddly to paint though, as some of the details are a bit plane.
Still don't know if I'll really invest plenty of time into this period, although I really like it. On the other hand I need a new period like a hole in the head...
Colours used are Vallejo and Foundry.

Hope you enjoy!

Rush for Berlin 6: MG-34 & Rifleman added/ SAGA: Late Romans vs. Vikings

Finally finished the last of the ordinary footsloggers for my Luftwaffenfelddivision.
As Artizan don't do a late war guy carrying a MG-34 I did a little conversion on a former MG-42  shooter giving him the barrel of a plastics MG-34 from Warlord Games. Still need some guys with Gewehr 43...unfortunately There aren't any available from Artizan.

 

Next for the Germans will be a PaK40, a heavy MG-42 and a mortar team.

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Last sunday Franz and I visited Christopher aka Axebreaker to have another great afternoon of gaming and chatting. We played a game of SAGA fielding my Late Romans against Christophers stunning Vikings.
For my Late Romans I used the Anglo-Danish battleboard as I've forgotten to take my other battleboards with me, though I normally use the Anglo-Saxon board. Christopher and Franz together played the Vikings using the Viking board (what a surprise^^). Unfortunately I can't totally recall the progress of the game. So I hope you 'll be content with some photos I shot.
We played using the Clash of Warlords scenario. At the end it was a crashing defeat for my romans as Christophers Berserkers killed my Warlord in the 5th round.

Hope you enjoy!

Sweetwater Forum - Miniature Exchange

The little sparetime I had over the last couple of days I used to get the figure done I recieved  for the `Miniature Exchange` on Sweetwater Forum.
For the `Miniature Exchange` you get a figure to paint from another chap taking part and send a miniature of your choice to somebody else. As I never did any kind of comissional painting it was a nice challenge to paint up something I didn't choose myself.

So I ended up splashing some paint on some sort of cowboy... I have to admit I really have no clue what make this figure is. As I never really was into this whole Wild West kind of thing, except playing cowboy and redskin in my childhood, it was completely virgin soil for me.
Therefore I hope the result is ok:

 

 

Thank you for watching!

Rush for Berlin 5: German Reinforcements

As spring has finally arrived in Germany too, it has been a bit quiet around here. Mainly because the workload increased, but also because I got a bit lazy over the last weeks.
So I needed about two weeks to get the next seven guys for my Luftwaffenfelddivision done.

I decided to paint up some more footsloggers to get a bit pf variation in my list.
So three soldiers with StG 44, three soldiers with Panzerfaust and a Medic are done.

First the hole bunch:


Followed up by the medic:

Next the Panzerfäuste:

 

 

Finaly the StG 44:

 

The guy in the completely blue dress is wearing the so called "Kuban Schild" on his upper left arm. Marking him as one of the survivors of the battles around the Kuban bridgehead from February to October 1943.
 More on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_shield

Hope you enjoy!!!

Rush for Berlin 4: Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf. C

After some kind of painting-frenzy I finished my first AVF for Operation Squad.
After having seen it already on Tactica (though I didn't had any money left) I had to get one of the new plastics Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf. C, also known as Hanomag, from Warlord Games.

First of all I've to say it's a great kit! Easy assembly, no irritating mouldlines and quite crisp casting.
The pieces fit together perfectly and building this kit is definitely lots of fun... even for me being all fingers and thumbs as I hate more sophisticated kits.  I think I'll have to get the plastics T-34 for my russians, too. Hopefully Warlord will release some other plastics kits in the future.

Now on to the pictures:

I still have to do a base for the Hanomag. Next up the Kübelwagen... I think^^

Hope you like it.

Rush for Berlin 3: Luftwaffen Felddivision

As this week my order from Artizan Designs and Miniaturicum finaly arrived I instantly started painting.
Painting a Luftwaffenfelddivision (Air Force-Fielddivision) is something I wanted to do for a long time. With my Soviets recently finished for Operation Squad I decided to give it a go.

First of the mandatory 500 pts. Squad:

As I hate painting the Splinter-Camo (Buntfarbenmuster 31) I went for the SS Peadotpattern, though it's not 100% historically correct.

Figures were a joy to paint but cleaning up all the mouldlines and flash was really enervating. I think some of the moulds should better be replaced.

There are still plenty more in the pipeline as I want to build a force big enough for some platoon level gaming.
 Therefore I seized the opportunity and striped of the paint from some of my older vehicles from Warlord Games.
Cleaning the resin from the failed old paintjobs proved to be a real pain in the ass... taking in account the time needed I think it would have been more productive to buy some new ones:

Obersturmführer Wittmann as passenger in the Kübelwagen. Had to cut off the legs to fit him in there...

Hope you enjoyed watching!