Right, if I’m going to start a new Flames of War army I’d better finish my first! So I’m on a painting drive to get the New Zealanders squared away. This week I’ve finally finished the HQ and Artillery Staff teams pictured here.
The HQ team is pretty bare bones, just plonked down in the desert. I gave the CiC a couple of 40 gallon drums and a little row of reject resin sandbags I had laying around from my original entrenching experiments. Those coupled with the fact there’s a radio man in the team make them stand out fairly well on the table. I fully expect them to be on the receiving end of a lot more incoming arty and fire from now on!
My artillery staff and command teams have been unpainted for so long now it’s been ridiculous, particularly considering I finished painting the gun teams some time late last year and the central table has been painted pretty much since I started collecting Flames of War! At last it finally has a team of men to stand around it.
Painting them up I noticed the gentleman on the left in the staff team is actually wearing a pullover, so no Kommando Khaki for him (yes I’m using GW paints). Incidently, I believe I’ve painted the soft hats of the officers entirely the wrong colour. They should actually be a light green like that man’s jersey. Ah well. The New Zealanders served for a number of years in the desert…so possibly the sun has err bleached the officer’s hats?
Right, barring the interminable transports and two objective markers, all I have left to paint to complete this army is:
- Three rifle team bases.
- Three British Sherman III’s.
I aim to have these painted by the next gaming evening, which is roughly a fortnight away. Rest assured that once I finish painting the main force I’ll post them up here!
Bloody nice paint job. I doubt my army will up anywhere near your standard of painting :o(
Normally your work is really inspirational Stu but these are just so damn awesome Im totally crushed! ;(
Great stuff and if you dont go to the tournament for fear of dice rolling you damn well better enter the painting competition!
Keep up the good work!
Jeez there’s a painting competition?! Where’s all that tournament info again?
Thanks guys, but these have all been ‘speed painted’ to get my NZers finished :).
I’m looking forward to starting in on the Germans and spending weeks painting a single Panzer IIIj. I really want to try some new techniques on the Germans, particularly with weathering the tanks.
Anybody else up for a second FOW Army? Aaron you seemed to be hinting at it last night :)
Oh boy Im so close it a second army I can smell it! But Im trying not to get distracted till after the tournament.
I’ve already come up with a Soviet Tank Battalion but the soviet vehicles whilst cool dont have particularly inspiring paint schemes, which leads me to doing a winter force with white-washed vehicles.
Tournament info
http://www.flamesofwar.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=1028
http://www.flamesofwar.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=1055
http://www.battlefront.co.nz/Article.asp?ArticleID=97
Whitewashed tanks would be cool, any probably not too tricky to paint once you’ve figured out the technique.
When I was originally looking at Flames of War I was reading Antony Beevor’s ‘Stalingrad’ and I was sorely tempted to start a Russian Armored Company ‘ex-factory’.
Ie. Paint them like they’d just rolled out the doors of the STZ and try and make all the crew and tank riders look like overalled factory workers fighting in The Great Patriotic War. But then I realised sculpting overalls and modelling lots of tank tools in their hands might be a bit much work! Not to mention I was unsure of the STZ T-34 undercoat colour :)
Oh and this post is already out of date…painted two more Rifle/MG bases…only one to go to finish that second platoon!
I love the maps on the staff team table. Are they sheets of green stuff ?
Yes, looking at that front one it should probably hang down over the edge a little more… not sure what happened there…possibly the edge broke off in the months and months it was kicking around my painting tray :|