15mm Brits

This side-project was done a while ago, 15mm Forged in Battle WW2 British infantry and PSC Churchill tanks. I have more Churchills and Cromwells as well, they are buried in the plastic pile.

StuGs

After breaking up the 3-day interval between posts again, this time because I've ran out of painted stuff, here are five Plastic Soldier Company 15mm StuG models: one early and one late variant, plus one StuH and the two remaining ordinary, sad little StuGs because they did not receive anything special except schurzen.

I primed the models white, then used VMC German Orange Ochre as a basecoat, over which I added a primitive ambush camo, blended in with a black wash and a gentle drybrush with VMC Buff, which highlights the edges of the hull and works as an all-round weathering material for lazy people like myself.

I've also glued dried tea filter stuff on some vehicles, and paper pieces for tarps on others, so they're quite diverse (as a German force should be in terms of vehicle variants). 

Soviet heavy metal

I have completed the PSC IS tanks, four of them with the IS-1 hull and 122mm gun, and one IS-2, most likely to be used as a command unit.

I used three shades of olive green plus a wash to get this weathered look, they are dark but not as dark as it seems on the photos. The five StuG IIIs are also assembled and ready to paint, but distractions arise... they will be finished later, though. 

PSC 15mm Panthers

Second part of the Christmas lot finished last year. I have used an ambush camo with the regular method of black undercoat, Dunkelgelb block painting, first blobs of reddish brown and dark green, then a black wash, highlights and the little dots. I think it worked.

PSC 15mm German infantry, second batch

These 40 figures have been painted in a rush before Christmas to be added to the arriving German force. I'm now through more than half of the box and this lot includes MG teams (walking and lying) too.

PSC 15mm T-34

First batch of my Christmas present painted. Two T-34/76s and three T34/85s, one as a company commander. 

PSC 15mm late war German infantry, first batch

Here are the magnificent men from PSC. I was out of glue so I started working on the poses which don't need assembly. The German set has some radio operators too, but the standing figures for the LMGs do not wear the MGs, only the ammo belts. 

PSC 15mm Russian Infantry

This week's painting time has entirely been around finishing these guys. They came by the post on Monday and I finished them yesterday. 130-1 (head broke off) infantry figures for the great red horde.

Organized the lot into five platoons, one SMG and four rifles.

Plastic Soldier Company Pz.Kpfw. VI 'Tiger I's

Thes, upon my call to help me out growing my 15mm WW2 arsenal, were generously sent by Mr Andrew Saunders from Loki's Great Hall; I do owe him one for this. Supposed to be the early version Tigers but I was sort of deliberate with some details. 

With the Zvezda kits I have obviously became too comfortable. Fitting pegs and holes everywhere, one-piece tracks and so on. Now these are only one step more difficult so assembly took a little more time but everything went OK. The tracks'n'wheels are made of 4 parts so there had to be a little sequence undercoating each part one after another but with that the hardships were over.

On to painting: a black undercoat, mixed earth brown and yellow basecoat, brown and green camo as on the kit box; then a drybrush of gunmetal on the necessary parts and medium gray on the hull. Then came a finish of quickshade and a wash with the Vallejo pigment plus extra weathering on the tracks. They look worn and war-torn and beaten by weather and that is how I imagined them. Success.