SS on bases

SS on bases

Finally I got to upload some pictures of my SS scout platoon on bases. Now I just need to finish up the bases with flocking.. Pics incoming........

Coming from US troops I've never painted/modelled such a small platoons..

I based the platoon to both act like a scout platoon but also (as the sculps are very panzerfaust heavy) to look like the tank hunter platoon they really are. The bases are Normandy themed.

Enjoy

M1 90mm AA Gun

Heavy AA gun

The latest addition to my AA battery the heavy and enormous 90mm AA gun :-) The gun battery consist of these two guns with an additional crew, which can improve the rate of fire to 3 instead of just 2. Biggest problem with these guns were the platform holes and making them stand out.

My AA force is almost ready for some rear guarding, I just need the self-propelled AA halftracks.

221 & 234

221 & 234

My first two Tigers from my company is now finished. I'm really satisfied with them and think they came out pretty nice. Tigers is just a awesome looking tank, next project might be a company of king tigers.

Gave them quite some weathering to make them look like they have really been in battle, using different pigments, washes and chipping. These tanks have a bit extra stowage added, but are not the Tigers with the most added. But damn, I wish that I was better at sculpting. There's some people out there, who is just amazing at it. It would be so cool to scratch build much more on the tanks and really make them unique and stand out. But what the hell, you have to practice to become good. So that's what I'm gonna do!

One of the biggest worries I had with doing the Tigers, was applying the decals, and making them set in the zimmerit. This was solved by using microscales decal softener.

I'm a bit unsure if the inside of the drivers hatch should be ivory or if it would have been painted dunkelgelb?

I was a bit nervous about painting the Heer Zeltbahn on such a big surface. But I think it came out nicely, maybe a bit difficult seeing on my pictures. But you get the idea :-)

Back shot of the two tanks.

Tank 221

Tank 234

 Drivers shot

Side shot

The first part of the Scout platoon

(which is actually the Tank hunter platoon).

My first attempt at painting SS camouflage. 

I went with some different combinations, a pea dot pattern in brown colors and a Oakleaf B pattern. As i would suspect the SS of June/July 1944 to be wearing the summer patterns. Would they also be wearing the orange/brown autumn pattern in the summer months?

Not quite sure how happy I'm with the Oakleaf pattern and damn the helmet markings are difficult to paint at this scale. But I really enjoy painting germans with all their small details, which I'm definitly not used to with the G.I.'s.

I'm wondering in Atlantik wall the Scout platoon is shown as 7 schwimmwagens in 3 teams and a command team. How would you do when gaming with these? Have 7 schwimmwagens, 3 MG teams + command team or some third option?

Repainted the two mens ammo pouches in a khaki color instead (top left corner)

SS Scout platoon

Painted the SS scout platoons schwimmwagens + Wittmans schwimmwagen.

Not sure i really like the colors, maybe they are to dark in the dunkelgelb? But i guess that in reality they looked dark by the weathering from the elements.

I added some SS number plates decals and a regiment marking on the right side.

And again they look a bit shiny because of the flash..

101. Schwere panzerabteilung - Beginning

101. Schwere panzerabteilung - Beginning

Finally i decided to paint something else. I always wanted to paint some germans and really some elite troops. So what is better than an SS tiger company?? 

So far my list is from Atlantik wall and it includes:

5 tigers

Wittmans tiger

3 sd.kfz. 7/1

SS scout platoon

I just finished putting them together, primed them and had some troubles with my airbrush. The pictures here is the second attempt. The first attempt i made the camoulflage to wide, so they didn't look like june/july 1944. But the second attempt i was quite happy with.

M2 50. cal AA

Just finished up some more US AA for my collection, my troops have been missing out on AA support for quite some time now.

Quite happy with the result, especially with the basing as I think i made it quite unique. Maybe the motivation was that there was only three stands, and not a whole platoon.

The dug in command team is quite nice. When I'm one day gonna paint a US winter rifle company, I'm sure gonna make a whole platoon which is dug in.

Next project 2 big pieces of AA, the M1 90mm gun. They're looking huge on the stand.