It’s June already! Time I posted about the three month painting challenge we kicked off in February then. No, your addition isn’t wrong, this challenge was supposed to finish at the end of April which was over a month ago. However for a variety of reasons much of late April and May was rather awful for my extended family and I simply had no time nor desire to do any hobby work.
I did start the challenge fairly strong, with the three DAK armored platoons I needed primed and ready to paint. It wasn’t long before I’d weathered all my DAK tanks with Marmite and the turrets were finished a week later!
Then things went on the back burner and here we are early June and all I’ve managed to finish and varnish is the two DAK panzers you see above – a IIIJ late and a IV F2. Still I feel a little more inspired now and will try and get some more of this army painted this year. How did everybody else go?
Well, I had aimed to have complete
Armoured Rifle: Command + 2 Ptns with 1 rifle squad
Support: 3 sections of Armoured 81mm mortar
Armoured Recon Ptn (HQ section + M8 Scott)
however by 1st of June I have only completed painting the infantry for the Armoured rifle command and platoons and these only have some of the ink washing, clear-coating done and base painting/texturing done. All the vehicles have been undercoated.
However I did spend 3 weeks on holiday in Australia. So well done me.
I also popped out and bought a can of Olve Drab paint for all my tracks and tanks and thingys so I may have more things painted soon.
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We’re just starting out with FoW here and I splurged on the Italian army. I am about half way through the second rifle platoon. Not too bad since it is the end of the school year and I have a ton of grading to do.
I did not forget about the challenge, but playing Commonwealth in our campaign I switched to british lend-lease tanks.
http://www.unfinished-armies.de/blog/blogeintrag/article/16th5th-lancers-sherman-iii-platoon/
But I was late, too. The german tanks are almost finished, I will do that in the next weeks.
I planned to paint the British Airlanding Company boxed set, 4 platoons plus HMGs and some 6 pounders, and I done ‘em all before the end of February.
I’m working on the gliders next.
I almost finished my armoured squadron yesterday, 16 crusaders, 3 grants and 3 shermans. Better late than never