German 20mm AA Armored Halftrack Platoon

As I mentioned in the last blog post, we had a 2000 pt Flames of War Late War tournament in Mid March and I was going to run Germans...and that I was undecided as to which list I was going to run.  I was split between Quad 20mm Armored halftracks or the single 20mm armored halftrack.  Well, this week I get to share the option I did not choose...the 20mm AA Armored halftrack platoon.

These too are Battlefront models and again I love how they look.  They had very little flash on the vehicle and crew to deal.  Assembling the guns was much easier (as their is only one and not 4 as in the Quad 20mm); but I did have an issue with one of the tracks on one of the vehicles.  It wasn't really a miscast, just all the flash that wasn't on the other figures was on this one track.  Easily overcome though.

1st Gun Section

2nd Gun Section

3rd Gun Section

 

 

The standing gun crew members were pinned in place with a little piece of piano wire drilled in one of their feet.

I used the same techniques and colors as I did with the Quad 20mm tracks.  The vehicles were all airbrushed with Vallejo Middlestone (882) as a base color and then stripes of German Camo Medium Brown (826) and Reflective Green (890) were added. I was using my single action airbrush and the stripes were a LITTLE thick, so I had to thin them out by stippling the edges with Middlestone.

The tracks were basecoated in Vallejo Black (950) and then heavy dry brushed in Cavalry Brown (982) with a final highlight of Gunmetal Grey (863) and a #2 pencil.

Even though I didn't use these in the actual tournament, I did use them in a few warm up games prior and they were effective for the points, but I had enough points in my list and could afford the Quads for the tournament...so they won out.

German Armored Quad 20mm Anticraft Guns

We had a 2000 pt Flames of War Late War tournament in Mid March and I was going to run Germans...but  had a load of painting I had to get done to be able to field a good force.  Add to that I was undecided as to which list I was going to run...so I had to paint several extra units to be covered...just in case.

One thing I knew I needed regardless of the list was a good platoon of Anti-craft guns.  I already had the Armored Quad 20mm tracks in the painting cue, but hadn't gotten around to them yet.  Well their number got called and they moved up the ranks.

These are Battlefront models and I love how they look.  I had very little flash on the vehicle and crew to deal with.  Putting them together was a bit of a challenge though.  The guns and gun shield were uncooperative at times...but they finally saw who was boss and relented  ;-)

Gun 1

Gun 2

Gun 3

The vehicles were all airbrushed with Vallejo Middlestone (882) as a base color and then stripes of German Camo Medium Brown (826) and Reflective Green (890) were added.  I was using my single action airbrush and the stripes were a LITTLE thick, so I had to thin them out by stippling the edges with Middlestone.

The tracks were basecoated in Vallejo Black (950) and then heavy dry brushed in Cavalry Brown (982) with a final highlight of Gunmetal Grey (863) and a #2 pencil.

The crew were painted using my paint plan for SS Wikings posted under my Painting Plans post.  I went with the plan Feldgrau look as opposed to any camo as the figures didn't have camo smocks.

I did do a head swap for the gunner on Gun #3 to add a little variety to the unit.

They did well in the tournament knocking down a few enemy planes in the process

Slacking

I realize that I have been slacking on updating the blog...I blame the WWPD guys getting people into the Online game "Eve"

I mean Scordite cant mine itself right?  Right?!?!?!?!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

But rest assured...I haven't stopped painting or anything.  I have still been painting as always...just my online time was consumed with Eve.

Over the next few months I will be posting up what I have been working on as well as some units I realized I hadn't posted before.

I will also start a thread on my thoughts as I work on making a Market Garden Campaign for my local group.

And my World War 2 focus will expand to include Battlefront's latest release Tour of Duty which covers Vietnam.  Suffice it to say they got Nam right this go around.  The games are a blast...and I am playing the NVA!!!  It is very cinematic...think "We were Soldiers Once, and Young..." but on the tabletop.

More of the good stuff in a week or so.  Thanks for sticking with me