'Beep', 'Beep' and one Jeep.

The first painted miniatures for 2020.
Two 3/4 ton trucks 'Beep' (Big Jeep) and one Jeep.
I bought these secondhand and had to clean them and remove the old paint and then start from scratch.
All are from Battlefront only the 2 passengers in the trucks are from Forced in Battle.
Of course I'm going to use them for Battlegroup.
They will be used as gun towing vehicles. The trucks for my US army and the Jeep for the US Airborne. Maybe in the future I'm going to buy some trailers to add to the trucks and use them as Supply vehicles.

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Jeeps with trailer.

Probably the last painted for this year. Jeeps with trailer.
They are 15mm miniatures and from Forced In Battle. It are nice mini's and easy to paint.
None of the 4 mini's are sculpted the same. Only the drivers and passengers are all looking the same.
These will be a nice addition to my US 101st Airborne Division Battlegroup. Used as a Supply Column.

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More Battlegroup, 40mm Bofors AA.

Bought two secondhand (15mm Battlefront) Bofors AA only to notice when they arrived that the gunshields, the sight groups and tailpieces were missing.
That the gunshields are missing is not such big problem cause these were very often removed. Both other pieces was more of a problem. These are small pieces and I had to make these myself well at least I thought. When I took a look in my bitbox I found 2 sight groups that could easily be used although they look a bit different then original ones. The tailpieces were quickly made out of other pieces.
Although the pieces are different you hardly see it when the mini's are placed on the table.
Pictured here is the US version. The second one isn't ready yet as I want to convert the gunners into British.

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Battlegroup: M32 TRV.

The M32 TRV painted.
Miniature from Battlefront. 15mm.
I used the Battlefront name of the miniature. In the Battlegroup books it is named M32 ARV (Armoured Recovery Vehicle).
At first I wanted to glue the miniature together as pictured below. But if I would glue the A-frame jib on the hull as pictured on picture it wouldn't be very strong bond and could break of pretty easy. Also it would be too fragile to transport the miniature. So I decided to glue it together normally.

Tried to giv the miniature give a muddy look. For this I used Vallejo Panzer Aces 304 Track Primer. I think it worked out well.
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Maybe the painting turn out a little too dark. But I happy how it turned out.

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Battlegroup: D7 Armoured Bulldozer.

The last painted miniature for the US army to be used with the Battlegroup game for now.
I wanted to give the model a very dirty look but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look. Oh well next time better. ;-)

Next project is a platoon of plastic Panzer III for North Africa made by the Plastic Soldier Company. Never had models from this company so I am wondering how it will go.

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Battlegroup: M4A3 Sherman (105mm).

Next I painted the M4A3 Sherman (105mm). This tank can be used by the US army in several Battlegroup books.
I have changed my way of painting. First I wanted everything I painted to look perfect (not that it always did ;-) ), now I paint everything to look nice on the gaming table and not spend hours and hours on painting one model.

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I painted something!

Back after 9 months. This is even my first post of 2016.
There are so many things happening in my life that there is/was no time for painting.
Now I finally found some time to paint the plastic Pershing platoon from Battlefront. This platoon can be used in combination with the Battlegroup Fall of the Reich book.

Also my collection of Battlegroup books has expanded with one more book: Battlegroup Wacht Am Rhein. This is not a hardcover book but a smaller softcover book.
In combination with the Battlegroup Overlord book this book can be used to create an army to use to play games during the battle of the Bulge.
Only 2 Battlegroup books missing in my collection are Battlegroup Kursk (a hard to get book but found a copy that hopefully soon will be in my possession) and Battlegroup Barbarossa (hope to by this book later this year).

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Battlegroup: M4A3E8 Easy Eight (Uparmoured).

Finally a new painted miniature for my US army out the Battlegroup Fall of the Reich book.
It took so long because when opening the blister I noticed that the gun-barrel was missing. After several emails towards Battlefront and a lot of promises from Battlefront that they would sent me a new gun they finally, after 3 months, sent me a new blister. This after I got angry in my last email sent to BF that it took so long.

For now this will be the last painted miniature for Battle group. Next I will buy the Battlegroup Blitzkrieg book.
Maybe I will need some extra miniatures for my French army.

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Battlegroup: M36B1 Jackson.

Battlegroup Fall of the Reich has no stats for the M36B1 Jackson only for the standard M36 Jackson. This means that I will use this model with the stats of the standard Jackson. Or I can use the stats as given at the forum, in agreement with my opponent of-course, after asking a question about this. An other option is that I take the turret of the M36B1 Jackson and the hull of one of the M10 Wolverine I have to make a standard M36 Jackson (see last pictures).

M36B1 Jackson (M4A3 hull).

M36 Jackson (M10 hull).

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Battlegroup: M4A3E2 Jumbo (two turrets 75mm or 76mm gun option).

Next painted model for Battlegroup Fall of the Reich. This time it is the M4A3E2 Jumbo. It has the option to take the 75mm gun option or 76mm gun option.
All things that look like mistakes, like the decals, are on purpose.

The M4A3E2 Jumbo with 75mm gun.

The M4A3E2 Jumbo with 76mm gun.

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