Continuing from the earlier Flames of War Painting Challenge post…
The painting challenge starts tomorrow on the 1st of Feb, so here’s my ‘before’ photo. I’ve changed my choice of platoon to paint a little from the last post, mainly because I didn’t want to paint five Panzer IIIj lates all at the same time. The photo shows the three platoons I’ll be painting for my mid-war DAK Armored Coy:
- HQ – Two IIIj lates in the foreground along with the massive recovery half-track. The stowage is glued to a piece of 1mm plasti-card cut to fit into the back tray. I’ve done this so I can paint all the barrels etc. and then just glue them into the painted vehicle.
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Combat – The other three Panzers IV Ausf F1′s and an F2. Heh, I’ve laid them out kinda funny too I notice.
- Div Support – Flak 88′s naturally. Although I’m tossing up swapping them out for a Tiger IE. Two emplaced 88′s and a command base + the transports. If anything gets dropped from my challenge it’ll be those three transports since I haven’t assembled nor primed the flak 88 gun carriages.
I’m hoping to get all five tanks and maybe those transports mostly finished in the first month using a production line, a couple of Tamiya spray cans (German Grey + Dark Yellow) and a technique similar to the one I used to paint my 28mm Opel Blitz and Sdkfz 222 Armored car.
I’ve also started a thread over on the official Flames of War forums about this informal challenge, which seems to have generated a mild interest there too. Hopefully we’ll see some people posting images of nicely painted models in a month or so!
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Stu, I really like your challenge idea. Motivation is all a wargamer needs. I am trying to take part somehow since we still work on our Road to messina Project and I still have Fallschirmjäger to paint.
Hi Tankred, yes we’ve discovered throwing out challenges semi-regularly does help us collectively paint armies! One challenge a year seems about right too.
I’ve been keeping a close eye on your Messina project and have to say it’s a fantastic looking table! You guys are going to have a blast playing FOW on it.
Thank you Stu. The table is really great to play on. We tried to make it enjoyable for gaming, therefore the hills are not that high but it is possible to put infantry bases on it. We already had a test game on it and I really liked the many options the table gives. Lemming considered gaming a lot during the desing process which pays off now.