Panzer III part 1: The built.

This is my very first box of the Plastic Soldier Company. A box of 15mm Panzer III F,G,H which I hopefully can use with the new Battlegroup book coming next spring.
As I never bought any of the Plastic Soldier Company models before I was very curious how they look and how easy it would be to assemble them. But before I started I first had to figure out which of the Panzer III ausf I want and how many. After some-thinking I decided to built 3 Panzer III ausf. G and 2 ausf. F. I can always order a reinforcement sprue to built an extra ausf. F.
Time to open the box.

The box.

Inside there are 5 sprue’s, 1 for each Panzer, and a leaflet with instructions. I was impressed how many parts 1 sprue contains and you need to built 1 Panzer. After a count I came to a total of 20+ parts for 1 Panzer. All I could think was something like Eeeep that's a lot of parts.
Let's start building. I decided to take the time when putting all things together to make sure I didn't make any mistakes.

The contents. 5 sprue.

First the turret. This wasn't very difficult. The only parts that took a closer look how to glue them to side were the escape-hatches.
An other thing was the copula. It didn't fit in the hole of the turret. So I had to file of some of the plastic to make it fit.
A minor complaint is that in the guns for the ausf. G is a little (casting?) hole that I have to fill up.

Turrets parts.

Assembling the running gear. Following the assembling leaflet these are easy to glue together. Only problem was too figuring out how to glue on the tracks. But after the first panzer this became very clear and the following panzers gave no problem. Minor complainant is that some of the tracks, when glued on the running gear, didn't fit together nicely. Leaving a little gap between the two pieces.

Parts for the tracks.

The hull. There is not much to say about this. These were very easy to glue together. The only piece I didn't glued on at this moment was the Hull MG. More about this later.

Hull parts.

All the pieces and glue them together. First I glued the running gear to the hull, not very difficult because the running gear can only be glued on one way. So you can't do it wrong.
The Hull MG is a whole other story. This was the hardest part off the whole built. It is a very small piece and it has to be glued in a little hole in the hull. Guess what they didn't fit. They were all to big. I very very carefully had to file off a little plastic to make it fit without breaking the Hull MG.

The assembled parts.

Last are some photos of the built Panzer III. I only have to add on some extra pieces to give them all some sort off own identity.

Panzer III ausf. G

Panzer III ausf.F

Group photo.

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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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Birthday present.

A few day's ago it was my birthday. As I don't celebrate my birthday I don't get much presents (even no presents from my parents but that is an agreement we made). Only a little money from my aunts.
But there is a friend of mine who always give me a present.
This year he gave me the Frostgrave rulebook which I am currently reading.

At a first glance the book looks pretty good. At the moment I can't say much about the rules because I haven't read them all and didn't play a game.
I hope that I can use my large collection of Confrontation miniatures with this ruleset. Only problem I may face is that I don't have enough and apropriate scenery.

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