British Vickers Machine Gun team.

Painted a British Vickers Machine Gun team. The miniatures are from Battlefront and 15mm. To bad the mini on the right had a dis-formed face. Sadly enough I had no other to replace it.
This team was one of the missing infantry teams in my British or Canadian infantry Battlegroup lists.
In real the painted minis are not as bright as they look on the pictures. Bit of bad lighting.
I also noticed it needs another coat of varnish but that will happen when I have painted more minis. Then it can all be sprayed in 1 go instead of each mini separate.
I'm also thinking to paint the edges of the base in a darker brown colour. Not sure about that yet.

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Battlegroup British: Cromwell.

After months and months I finally did paint something. It was only a minor project. Just to get the feeling of painting back.
These are 2 British Cromwell tanks.
The miniatures are from PSC. And 15mm size.
To make a full platoon I need a Challenger. Hopefully Battlefront will release a new version soon, else I need to order one from Skytrex. I can use it with a Firefly but if I play a game of Battlegroup Market Garden I need a Challenger.

Sorry for the crappy pics.

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Battlegroup: Churchill Crocodile.

This miniature is my first painted in 2019: The Churchill Crocodile.
It's a 15mm mini from battlefront. Resin with metal.
Painting the model was not the biggest problem, the tracks were a nightmare. These were made of thick heavy metal with a lot of flash which was removed quickly I thought. The biggest problem were the tracks, they were not straight and didn't fit to the hull nicely. Because they were so thick and heavy it took a lot of effort to straighten them. They are not completely straight but it was the best I could do without damaging the details.
The model can be used with the Battlegroup Overlord, Battleground Overlord Beyond the Beaches and Battlegroup Fall of the Reich supplement books.

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Battlegroup: British Reconnaissance teams.

These miniatures were given to me (thanks MW) so my British troops would have some better Reconnaissance teams. There are 2 Staghounds, 2 Daimler I and 2 Daimler Dingo. All Battlefront miniatures and all to be used with Battlegroup Overlord and Battlegroup fall of the Reich.
After a close look I noticed that a few miniatures were standing unstable. I quickly saw that the wheels weren't glued in a straight position. So first thing was to solve that problem. Next was placing an AAMG on a Staghound, it was broken of and missing, and glue on bits and pieces that came loose. Then painting. Because not all pieces were painted and I wanted them to match with the rest of my British (Canadian) army I repainted them all. I did this without stripping of the old paint. The result is pretty good if I may say so.

British Reconnaissance teams.

Daimler I teams.

Dailer Dingo teams.

Staghound teams.

Also I finally got my next Battlegroup book. Battlegroup Bitzkrieg. The book concentrate on the invasion of Poland and French by the German army. It contains several army-lists for the Polish and German army for the invasion of Poland and several French, Belgian, BEF and German army-lists for the invasion of France. Further it contains background info, a few extra rules,scenarios and painting guides. After Overlord and Fall of the Reich this is my third book in the Battlegroup collection and as with the other books the book looks great. In combination with this book I'm going to use my Early war French Battlefront miniatures, that I collected for FoW. Later on I will see if I need to expand my French miniature collection.

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Battlegroup: British Medic and Stretcher-bearers.

Next painted miniatures. This time not for Flames of War but to use with the Battlegroup game.
These are British (or Canadian) Medic and Stretcher-bearers. The models are from Skytrex. Not such great looking miniatures and a bit smaller then miniatures from Battlefront. I am not to happy how the bases look so maybe in the far future I will change these.
Got more practice to do taking close up pictures.

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Rocket Battery, RCA.

Finally a new platoon painted. This time it is for my Canadian Company. It was about time.
The Rocket Battery, RCA.
In Flames of War this battery contains a Command team, Observer team and 2 or 4 Land Mattress. Because I bought 2 blisters to get 4 Land Mattress I also got 2 Command teams and 2 Observer teams. This means that I can take the following options. One Battery with 2 or 4 Land Mattress or Two Battery's with 2 Land Mattress each. That's why you will see in most pictures of my painted battery 2 Command teams and 2 Observer teams.
More about the Land Mattress can be read in this PDF: Land Mattress
The picture below is used as reference for the colour of the warheads.

Rocket warheads

Crew loading a Land Mattress

Complete Rocket Battery, RCA (front view).

Complete Rocket Battery, RCA (top view).

The Firefly VC painted.

Got the Firefly VC painted. This makes the Guards Armoured platoon, that I can use with the 101st Airborne division from the Hell's Highway book, complete.
The model looks a bit shiny. That is because the places where the decals are added have a layer of gloss varnish over them and I also have to seal the model. This will done when the next platoon is ready to be sealed.

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Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon: The 2nd part. Finished.

Finally the second part of the Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon for my Canadian Company is done. I started with this part at the end of November 2010 ( Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon: The 2nd part) but because of all kind of circumstances it took much longer then planned to paint this part.
One thing I am considering is to repaint the shells with another color.
It will now form together with the first part of the platoon (Field Battery, Royal Artillery Platoon end result)  a platoon that contains eight 25 pdr guns. The Canadian Company with the Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon can be from the Turning Tide handbook or, if I wish, from the old Monty's Meatgrinder handbook.

The pictures:

Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon: The 2nd part.

Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon: The 2nd part. The 25 pdr Guns.

Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon: The 2nd part. Observer and Command teams.

Field Battery, Royal Artillery the full platoon

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Field Battery, Royal Artillery Platoon end result

This is the end result of the Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon for my Canadian Company.
I know it probably won't be an award winning platoon for painting but i think it will look great on the gaming table.
The intention is to, in the future, increase the size of the platoon with four more guns.
I am sorry for the crappy pictures. Somehow no matter what i did the photo's turned out bad. In real the platoon looks better.
Comments are always welcome. Good or bad.

The Platoon


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Crashed Spitfire Objective Finished

After a long row of posts about anything except painting.......
The Crashed Spitfire Objective from Kerr & King is finally finished. Because of a painting block (didn't do any painting for several weeks) it took more time to finish this objective and the only thing i had to do were the details.
Some of the painting looks pretty OK while others turned out not the way i wanted, but overall, i think, it turned out pretty nice.
The objective will be used with my Canadian Army.
Comments are always welcome of-course.










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Canadian tanks.

Now that i got my camera i can finally place some pictures of my painted tank platoon for my Canadian 3rd Division 7 (Western) Brigade Regina Rifles Regiment.
The tank platoon is from the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade 6th Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) B Squadron.









Oh and 1 day I learn to make better pictures.

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Canadian Universal Carriers and 6 Pounder Guns

Between building army excel files i also found time to do some painting. (Click on the pictures to increase the size)
Let's start with the Canadian Universal Carriers Patrol.

Of 2 Carriers i drilled out the MG port at the front and placed the extra Hull MG there. The 3th Carrier got the Extra Hull MG placed at the top of the carrier. The Commander got an extra .50 cal browning. Two are missing the stars on the side. I ran out of decals and forgot to order some extra. Feel stupid now.







The Canadian 6 pounders.
As i don't have a platoon commander for this platoon...yet. I decided to use the Stan Hollis mini plus 1 extra mini that came with the British company box for this roll. I play Canadian not British. :)
Also i like to add 2 more 6 pdr's to this platoon.







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Canadians

Some pictures of my painted Canadians! Themed around the Canadian 3rd Division. The Regina Rifles Regiment. Lets have a look and see what i have painted so far.

HQ + 3 snipers, Capt Treleaven,
3 Combat platoons, 3" Mortar platoon, Wasp patrol

HQ and Snipers

Capt. Treleaven

Some Infantry

Mortars

Wasps