My 1/72* Wargaming men, armour, and veh

[Laurence Strong]

Hi Jim

Most of what you will see comes from many a winter sitting in a work camp for 2 weeks at a strech usually a 4 hr plane flight up the ars**ole of the world up north, had better things to do when I came home most times

Hi Paul

Here are the tools of the trade, the purple brush is an 18/0, and the occulare aids are a 8 power set of reading glasses.

The base coat is usually painted on after that it's more a matter of laying the paint on wear you want it with the long tips.

Edited August 29, 2006 by Laurence Strong

[Laurence Strong]

You asked an interesting question Paul, about how long it takes to paint them. I have been thinking about that and fiqure 1 man (plain uniform 1 or 2 colors) takes between 5 and 10 min over a couple nights

[Laurence Strong]

My camo men seem to take about twice as long yet. I do the small dots with a toothpick. when it comes to painting them, the base coat is brushed on and after that it's more a question of laying out a line with one of the long tip brushes, and I brace b oth hands up against the edge of my desk

[Laurence Strong]

bring horses into the picture and it gets longer yet, I see I have a little touch up to do on the base

[Laurence Strong]

Then if you want to go really nuts start in on the Napoleonics, these are for the 3ieme Regt de Ligne facingcolors are all accurate for the different regiments

[Laurence Strong]

Or the Cavalry Polish Lancer Officer and Trumpeter, neither this set of horses or the previous set have seen much detail work, those are pretty basic

[Laurence Strong]

Here's a supply wagon with a pair of Belgian draft horses. there is more WW2 coming tonight. Thanks for looking and feel free to offer any advice or comments.

[Laurence Strong]

An assortment of companies:

Brit inf with a Piat and Vickers as company support weapons

[Laurence Strong]

Grenadier coy with a MG42 as support

[Laurence Strong]

Panzer Grenadier company mounted I am missing 2 x 251/17 AAA units

[Laurence Strong]

Top down view

[Laurence Strong]

Panzer Grenadier dismounted, I have not made up bases with dismounted 8cm Mortar, some day I will have a couple of boxes of HaT's mortar teams and I might then.

Edited August 29, 2006 by Laurence Strong

[Laurence Strong]

Panzer company. please excuse some of the vehicles, they are getting old and some pieces have fallen off never to be seen again Heer coys have 4 AFV's and the SS had 5. the OC's tank will eventually be replaces as it is an old Matchbox and I will remove the turret and turn it into a supply runner.

Panthers

Edited August 29, 2006 by Laurence Strong

[Paul R]

Those are simply amazing!!

[Laurence Strong]

Thanks Paul Lot's more coming over time, takes awhile to get them all based

[Laurence Strong]

Well the wife's gone to work, and I have some paint and glue drying so I thought I would take some close up's of the PzGdr Company.

Starting with the command veh c/s 100. This is a Matchbox 251 ausf A prob 15-20 yrs old, I scratch built the Stummel from some pieces off the old Esci Mk lll barrel and turret front and the breach part from a Semovente.

Here's a front on view

[Laurence Strong]

Now you get to see all the warts and flaws

Top down view

[Laurence Strong]

I put a good ole "Bluenose" dime beside it to show the size scale

[Laurence Strong]

I made the mortar carrier by cuting theseats in half, the fiqures are the Esci 8cm mortar abortion that they had and a Airfix WW2 German Infantry.

[Laurence Strong]

Top veiw, the boxes are styrene strip cut and painted a tan with darker brown lines to represent the slats on an ammo box, the tubes are just styrene rod cut stacked and painted black.

[Laurence Strong]

Side view, the kit is partly from the Revell 105 set and preiser's sitting Pzgdr's

[Laurence Strong]

I Plt.

Esci/Ertl's old styrene track was areal bit*h to work with, it used to be brittle and nothing would stick to it, I learned to sew the track down around the road wheels over time

[Laurence Strong]

All the 251's except for the 1st one are Esci/Ertl ausf C, they had a real nice line of AFV's and veh for the time periuod that they were out, Iwas really bummed to see them finally fold but Revell has realeased some new versions of some of them. And dragon is coming out with an awesome line of plastic kits I am in the process of building the Nashorne

[Laurence Strong]

oops getting confused the other side

Edited August 30, 2006 by Laurence Strong

[Laurence Strong]

2 Plt the fiqures are anything I can get my hands on along with some of Preisser's PzGdr's