Author Topic: Airborne April (5.7. Last Red Devils with Jeeps and a tank!) (Read 9650 times)

Cubs · « **Reply #30 on:** 30 April 2014, 11:52:09 AM »

It's not inconceivable that there were other ex-Highland officers there, just wearing a plain kilt. There does seem to have been an awful lot of laxity as regards uniform and equipment for officers - see Major Tatham-Warter with his umbrella!

Nysse · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 May 2014, 09:37:45 AM »

Well it's not really April anymore, but I ran out of bases and haven't finished any more moderns so I went back and finished of a bunch of Red Devils again. 16 fellas, including a full squad, a FOO team and a few extras.

This time the stubble worked a lot better as I added far more of the base fleshtone and watered it down even more. After about 3 layers it looks quite nice.

The Red Devils also had their first outing against German Fallschirmjäger and easily came out on top with only two casualties. Focusing their fire and using cover to it's maximum effect really worked out well. You can see the AAR on my blog: http://engineered-gaming.blogspot.fi/2014/05/bolt-action-aar-red-devils-vs.html

Nysse · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 July 2014, 09:05:18 PM »

After seeing the article in WI by Cubs I gathered up the motivation to finally paint the last (or nearly the last) parts of the Red Devils project. Not quite in April, but still not too bad

I still have a 6pdr to paint up, but other than that I have pretty much everything done finally. I guess I should really do a group shot of the whole bunch sometime too.

I ran into some problems painting the Tetrarch as paint came of in huge batches from the tracks and running wheels which were some weird rubbery material and not the normal resin that the rest of the tank was. Luckily it wasn't too hard to mend in the end.

The Jeeps and the Tetrarch were basecoated with dark green and some colour modulation was added with a lighter green and tiny amount of dark yellow in the hopes of adding some interest to the otherwise monotone green surface. After that I used Ammo of Mig products to add a wash and then some streaking effects on bodies. The mud stuff is a product called "Easy Mud"

A bit picture heavy, but for those who seem to think it wasn't enough there are more on my blog