For various reasons, I haven't been very active on L-O for the past years for a multitude of reasons, the major being me almost having completely lost faith in GW due to their overwhelmingly bad track record on army balancing in both Fantasy Battles and 40 000 - I've thus moved on to greener pastures. While I'm still working on my World Eaters, they're little more than a hobby project that rarely get to play any games these days. On the plus side, they're almost done!
I did however recently begin work on a new Flames of War army and I spotted a distinct lack of Flames of War project threads, so I figured why not share my work. I'm by no means an expert painter, I'm just trying to bring some diversity to this part of the forum. At the moment, this thread will be dedicated to my current little project; A German heavy tank company.
This is a themed list, one I do not expect to win (m)any games - it's simply not viable to use up almost 80% of your point allowance on four models... but King Tigers are so awesomely cool that I'm doing it anyway and there's not a single person south of the Svalbard Islands who can talk me out of it.
So, here's the list. Taken from page 70 of the Grey Wolf book.
Now, I'm painting up this army for a tournament at my local club for club members only. It's not a very serious tournament, so it should probably be more considered a day of Flames of War gaming with a scoreboard somehow mixed in. Either way, every single one of my clubmembers are expecting me to bring my Russian Guards Heavy Tank Company, seeing as that's the only army they know I have. They have no idea I'm bringing out this little secret project.
Oh yes. Sneaky Kaiser is sneaky. I'm aiming for an "Ooooh, cool" type of reaction, expecting it to be followed by four straight defeats.
So, for the past week, I've been filing away mold lines and flash, glued everything together, based the infantry and the APCs, sprayed and given the tanks a basecoat of Scorched Brown, spread the work out, getting in an hour or two every now and then. Went rather smoothly. 1:100(15mm) is a great scale to work with.
Today I figured that even though I'm still missing the two AA-halftracks, I might as well get started on painting camouflage on what I have. It's only the first layer of colour - I intend to turn the darker brown into a more reddish colour and the lighter brown into something more on the yellow side, then there's weathering effects and detailing that need to be worked on, but I'm making good progress with this little army - something that's extremely rare for me. Still need to greenstuff a little flag on the command tank, then freehand a little swastika on it. Expecting it to turn out completely awful.
So, here's what I have sofar. Deadline is the 17th of February - 13 days.
Picture quality will improve in coming posts, but this late at night, my cellphone camera was all I had.
I did however recently begin work on a new Flames of War army and I spotted a distinct lack of Flames of War project threads, so I figured why not share my work. I'm by no means an expert painter, I'm just trying to bring some diversity to this part of the forum. At the moment, this thread will be dedicated to my current little project; A German heavy tank company.
This is a themed list, one I do not expect to win (m)any games - it's simply not viable to use up almost 80% of your point allowance on four models... but King Tigers are so awesomely cool that I'm doing it anyway and there's not a single person south of the Svalbard Islands who can talk me out of it.
So, here's the list. Taken from page 70 of the Grey Wolf book.
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Company Command; Schwere Panzerkompanie HQ: 1x CiC King Tiger, Henschel turret - 350p
Combat Platoon #1; Schwere Panzer Platoon: 1x King Tiger, Henschel turret - 345p
Combat Platoon #2; Schwere Panzer Platoon: 1x King Tiger, Henschel turret - 345p
Combat Platoon #3; Schwere Panzer Platoon: 1x King Tiger, Henschel turret - 345p
Weapon Platoon #1; Panzer Anti-aircraft Gun Platoon: 2x Armoured Sd Kfz 7/1 - 100p
Weapon Platoon #2; Schwere Panzer Armoured Scout Platoon: 1x Command Smg/Panzerfaust team, 6x MG teams, 7x Sd Kfz 251/1C APCs. - 260p
Oh yes. Sneaky Kaiser is sneaky. I'm aiming for an "Ooooh, cool" type of reaction, expecting it to be followed by four straight defeats.
So, for the past week, I've been filing away mold lines and flash, glued everything together, based the infantry and the APCs, sprayed and given the tanks a basecoat of Scorched Brown, spread the work out, getting in an hour or two every now and then. Went rather smoothly. 1:100(15mm) is a great scale to work with.
Today I figured that even though I'm still missing the two AA-halftracks, I might as well get started on painting camouflage on what I have. It's only the first layer of colour - I intend to turn the darker brown into a more reddish colour and the lighter brown into something more on the yellow side, then there's weathering effects and detailing that need to be worked on, but I'm making good progress with this little army - something that's extremely rare for me. Still need to greenstuff a little flag on the command tank, then freehand a little swastika on it. Expecting it to turn out completely awful.
So, here's what I have sofar. Deadline is the 17th of February - 13 days.
Picture quality will improve in coming posts, but this late at night, my cellphone camera was all I had.