What's a 'Com'? Go to the Flames of War website for more detailed assembly instructions so you can see the variants available on a sprue. I suggest doing a primer colour before painting, especially if you are doing Brits in the desert, as the green plastic needs a primer before you use a sand colour.
I meant dot com or site;
I did briefly check out Flames of War; went back after your recommendation looked a little harder and got some good insight;
So i guess i can say Tanks it was a big help.
FOW US and German paint here, waiting for UK and Russia along with decals and of course more Tanks.
for some reason UK and Russian paint is coming from India i blew that, got to wait till mid August.
Primer is also here i'll be ready to paint and assemble soon;; good hunting ahead.
I find it easier to paint tracks before attaching, and with the Panzer IV with Schurzen, I suggest painting and detailing before attaching the schurzen to the mounts. Easier to get the details along the side.
I should have never read this thread. Based on your enthusiasms listed here, I decided to give this a try. Ordered the starter from Amazon and it arrived today...but I haven't been able to do much as I'm trying to NOT tip off the missus that a new game has invaded the game room.
Anyone have a good site with tutorials for painting the starter set? I admit I haven't put together any plastic models since forever...
I should have never read this thread. Based on your enthusiasms listed here, I decided to give this a try. Ordered the starter from Amazon and it arrived today...but I haven't been able to do much as I'm trying to NOT tip off the missus that a new game has invaded the game room.
Anyone have a good site with tutorials for painting the starter set? I admit I haven't put together any plastic models since forever...
My late war Brits are finished (until the Churchills and Valentines are released).
Comet Troop (11th Armoured Division)
Cromwell Troop (3 Cromwells and 1 Firefly) from the Desert Rats (in Normandy)
M4A4 Troop (with Firefly) of the Canadian Grenadier Guards (4th Canadian Armoured Division)
A Troop of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers, 27th Armoured Regiment, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. The upside down blue triangles are historically accurate for this platoon. This is the platoon that was at Gaumesnil and potentially got Wittmann. I used PSC M4A2s, Battlefront Vc Firefly. I also made an old resin Battlefront 1c Firefly with a plastic Vc turret (the resin one was tiny) for the late war reinforcement.
I also made Calamity, an M4A2 from the local armoured unit, 1st Hussars. There is a post war M4A2 (76) HVSS bearing her name posted outside a local Royal Canadian Legion branch in her memory.
I made Bomb, an M4A2 (Sherman III) of the Sherbrookes that landed on D-Day and survived to see the end of the war (and is now on display). I did her up as she was in 1945, a year after D-Day (hence the 365+ on her side).
Two M10s for the 4th Canadian Armoured in Normandy. Despite GF9 not making a card for the Brits, they used M10s in Italy and Normandy until more M10c (later called Achilles) were available. The Brits used them with towed 17pdrs as highly-mobile anti-tank artillery (2 towed, 1 M10, 1 M10c until 2 M10c were available). However, for D-Day and early on in Normandy, they were detached from their artillery batteries to provide support as their value in this capacity was foreseen.
Two M10c (Achilles)
A Canadian Sexton (I'll just use the Priest card with it). The Brits did have M7 Priests in Italy and early on in Normandy (until conversion to Defrocked Priests) but I figured instead of making 2 more (I have two painted for the desert), I can use my US ones if necessary as the paint is almost the same.
I have a question about decals. Over on the underground site, there are several mentions of some user built decal sheets. Can anyone here provide that? If not, any suggestions (other than Dom's, where I understand there has been some issues) on where to get decals for Tanks? The FoW ones seem expensive, but maybe it's not a bad deal for 4 sheets. Any guidance here is appreciated.
I had my custom decals made by miscmini.com/ and they are awesome. One sheet was $5 (it was all I needed). He's based in Virginia. If you want something custom, he's the way to go.
The decals you mentioned on the Underground were done by a member over there that bought a kit somewhere for doing your own decals with a printer.
I get the bulk of my decals from Dom's Decals in the UK. He has a good selection of decals and he is the ultimate source for British and Commonwealth 15mm decals. He even does the yellow bridge discs for NW Europe.
Thanks for the decal recommendations. My buddy Scott came over on Wednesday and we played several matches, starting with Barkman's Corner. We both got pretty bored with the game until we fired up a scenario with objectives ("No Retreat" from the rule book). OK, now it's pretty cool. I only had the M10 and 2 starter Shermans ready to go for the US. The Germans had a Panther/Jagdpanther, two IVs and a III ready then. We're going to play our first 100 point game this coming Wednesday, so...read on:
I haven't built a plastic model in ~4 decades, but I think I'm getting the hang of this. My wife went to her mom's house yesterday and took our son. So, home alone, I put together a bunch more tanks and primed and basecoated my Germans. I even put some camo down on some of them.
Here are some in-progress shots (my airbrush got away from me a few times doing the camo, but I feel pretty good with it considering these tanks are the first things I've done):
DAK Panzer III and Panzer IV from El Alamein (primed/basecoat):
Grey (primed/basecoat):
Dunkelgelb Panthers (primed/basecoated/camo'd):
Dunkelgelb Tiger/Stug/Panzer IV (primed/basecoated/camo'd):
OK, some finished Germans and US (next post). Can't get over how many little things there are to detail on these models. I really need to figure out how to speed up my painting...