So I've got some more stuff painted, this time 10 more T-34 tanks for my Soviets. I've also got the 85mm turrets done too.
Little more effort with the transfers this time, as I had to freehand the number 2 over most of them to bring the numbers into the 20s. Otherwise these were a standard soviet paint job.
I've built something more for the railway. This is the Superquick Goods Shed Kit, with some additional work. I've done:
- Painted the bare card edges.
- Added additional white brick internal coverage at the ends which the kit didn't cover.
Today's update is 4 SU-100s, bringing my total of these up to 10 (2 Platoons of 5). Enough for a Medium Self Propelled Artillery Company!
These are Battlefront's plastic SU-100 kit. They've been painted in my standard soviet scheme (green), which is fairly quick and easy to do.
Next up is probably more Soviets, in this case 10 more T-34s which are on the painting table at the moment.
For my collegue Allan's retirement I painted up two Roman Officers for his Roman Army. Now he's left, I can post them up!
These are from Warlord Games Hail Caesar range and can be found below.
So this week I have finish 4 KV-85s. These were the last development of the KV series of tanks, mounting an 85mm gun in an improved turret. Further development would lead to this turret being mounted on a new hull as the IS-1 tank.
These models were bought second hand and where from an unknown source. I'm not sure of the manufacturer (They could be eBay recasts) but the resin isn't great and they don't take paint well even with washing before priming. Also the gun barrels arn't great either and would benefit with being replaced at some point (I'm out of 85mm guns at the moment).
Even more annoyingly the KV-85 has been removed from Flames of War with V4. However I've painted the tanks up anyway (I have no other heavy tanks at present) and will probably use them as stand in IS-1s for the moment, hoping the KV-85 will be added back in at some point with a website article.
Due to all this I've gone for a simple paint scheme so they were at least a quick job!
So I've finished my platoon of British Armoured Cars, 2 Daimlers and 2 Dingos.
These are the new Battlefront plastic models, and they've come out really well. I deviated slightly from the Battlefront instructions and managed to model the second crewman in the Dingo cabins, rather than just the one. This really helps them look more realistic, as the Dingo had a Driver and a Commander/Gunner, for a two man crew.
These armoured cars will replace my old QRF made armoured cars, which I painted a few years ago. You can see these below:
So another platoon of models has been painted, 4 ISU-122 Assault Guns. These were pretty easy to paint, other than markings which had to be freehanded as the transfers didn't cover numbers 70 to 73. They've still come out pretty well though.
Next up is a replacement Armoured Car Platoon for my North West Europe British, using the new plastic Battlefront models. With the more detailed models and the new paint job (the last set were painted a while ago, and I've improved since then), these should be good replacements for the old platoon.
