Flames of War Afrika Korps

[Gav0909]

Thought I would post this up here, mostly as motivation for myself. Most of you might know that I was a wargamer for many years, until I got back into scale modelling recently. I had Warhammer 40k armies and in recent years had gotten into Flames of War, which is a 15mm scale (1/100) WW2 themed game, with armies consisting of tanks, infantry, armoured vehicles, artillery etc.

Anyway I have stopped that also and sold off my two main armies, a Late War (Normandy) themed British Army, and my Early War Afrika Korps. However the friend I sold the DAK too wanted me to finish painting the army so it would all match, which I said wouldn't be a problem as there wasn't much left to do.

However my lack of mojo for anything wargaming related has meant that I still haven't gotten this finished! Over the weekend I forced myself to sit down and make some progress on the PzIIIs that needed finishing.

I haven't any pics of the ones I was working on but here I will show you what I am aiming for standard wise, as well as some shots of the other stuff already completed for this.

Here is a Schutzen platoon, these guys were the forerunners to the Panzergrenadiers and were all mounted in halftracks.




Little PzIII



88




PzIV platoon



So I have another 88 to finish weathering, a machine gun platoon (4 bases of infantry similar to above), and 3 more PzIVs to finish weathering. I just have final details and decals to add to the PzIIIs and this lot should be done!

Let me know what you think. The PzIIIs and halftracks are more scale mode kits, as each is a multipart plastic kit, whereas the PzIVs are a solid resin body and turret, with cast metal track sides, hence some of the details are a touch soft.

[T3hGuppy]

Nice looking DAK

[Paul]

Brilliant work gav, love the halftracks and the panzer 3, great work on such little subjects

[Coen]

Holy moly... small Dude.
You'll go blind if you keep playing with that.

It takes a very special set of skills and patience to build at that scale... something that I don't have.
Great stuff Gav.

[wappynutter]

Excellent weathering skills at such a small scale dude...

Is the chipping effect paint or the old salt or hairspray technique?

Keep it up dude..
Great little pieces.

[Gav0909]

Cheers guys.

Wappy - the chipping is done with Vallejo Liquid Mask (like Humbrol maskol), paint the vehicle German Grey, then dab splotches of the liquid mask on it, paint the vehicle Dark Sand, take of the mask, paint the details and then dust with Medium Earth pigment from Forgeworld, remove excess with white spirit (helps fix it too) and they are pretty much done.

[longlance67]

Nice looking DAK mate,

working on a DAK MG company from burning empires at the moment

[UKscalemodeller]

Nice work Dave. . . Gav

I may put some pictures of my 6mm ACW figures on here

[Coen]

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[Matthew]

Great work m8

[Pir8hnter]

Nice looking work. I wear trifocals, so 1:48 is about as small as I want to go.
Yours
Pir8hnter

[Rob]

Ha! Great models from Gav and now Cheech and Chong from Coen. Bliss.

[longlance67]

Nice work mate


have a DAK force on the go too at the moment


nice work



Shane