FoW Polish Infantry and Objective Marker

 Some infantry and an objective marker (destroyed Stuart light tank) finished up.  Looking at the pictures now I may go back and do something with some of the helmet nets but I'm in crunch time for packing up the house so it may not get done.  I did locate some artillery to add to the force and will try and knock it out before I ship out.

These were entertaining to paint.  I started with everything primed in US ARMY GREEN.  For the uniforms I washed gryphonne sepia to tint them towards the uniform color I was after and followed up with 2 washes of devlan mud to lock in the brown.  The belts and pouches were brushed on using reaper khaki mid and re-brushed with a khaki highlight before washing in devlan mud.  the skin was vallejo light flesh washed with ogryn flesh. helmets were calthan brown and ogryn flesh, boots black and guns were vallejo gunmetal washed with badab black.

The bases were dressed with wood filler then painted calthan brown then dry-brushed basic flesh and washed with the ubiquitous devlan mud.  I mixed a couple of static grass colors...  one very bright green and one very burnt green to get a summer grass mix.

Otherwise the packing up of the house proceeds apace and posts will remain spotty until after the move.

Polish 1 AD WiP

 More work done on the Flames of War Late War Polish.  These are intended to be from 1st Polish Armoured Division, 10 Brygada
Kawalerii Pancernej, 1 Pułk Pancerny, A Squadron and a couple of Regimental assets.



I've run out of small white stars for the flanks of the tanks so work will pause here for a bit and I'll jump over to the infantry component while I wait.  I also need to dig up or fabricate some Firefly turrets and barrels.

In other news I'm packing up the house and moving to Japan for a while.   The main impact here is that posts will be erratic for a few months while I'm getting torn down and reset.  Many of the larger projects will be pushed to the back burner in favor of things I can work on more readily as I travel.

FoW Polish I Armored Division WiP

Stepping...sideways from my work queue I decided to work on these elements of the Polish I Armored Division from the Late War period formatted for Flames of War.

I spent most of the day doing research and found a supplier for regimental vehicle markings in Dom's Decals.   The basic painting and weathering of the vehicles has progressed to the point where I'm just waiting for the decals to arrive.  I'll add some details while I wait and paint the bases so it should wrap right up once the the fiddly decals arrive.  Later this week I'll sort out the infantry and see if I can knock the project out and return to OGRE PANTS!

Other things on the table that have seen some progress are the Sslyth for the Dark Eldar which are in process of layering the water effects for the base.  They will be closely followed by the Lahmians... which should finish up the Court of the Archon for the time being.

WWII, Azdrubael Vect and Bloodcrushers

A little variety on the bench today. I finished up some Flames of War Germans. I'd had these halftracks sitting around since my last painting binge in February. All that remained was identification numbers. This set is from the 10th company of Der Fuhrer regiment of 2 SS Panzer in 1944.


Next on the bench was the initial work on Azrubael Vect. My Dark Eldar Kabal uses the fractal red to white pattern here throughout its vehicles its a bold, simple, pattern and looks very distinctive on the table top. The bright pattern draws the eye away from the very simple scheme that is applied to the rest of the model. The throne is worked up from orange and yellow for a look of old pleat upholstery. The Dark Eldar are typically... well... dark! I took a little bit different look at them. They do have a good deal of actual black which contributes to the feel of darkness but there are also a lot of vivid colors, along the lines of Craftworld Eldar, to keep the force visually entertaining.