28mm Bren Carriers in a Desert Stylee

[Yarkshire Gamer]

http://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/28mm-bren-carrier-section-desert-style.html

Brens Ahoy !

Got round to finishing off a section of 3 Bren Carriers and crews for my early war (1940/41) Desert Army, these are for my South African Battalion.

The detail on these Perry Figs is just great and an absolute joy to paint, so much so I finished another 3 today, which is nice.

I have included links to my vehicle and figure tutorials on the post, for the period if they are useful for anyone.

Thanks for looking,

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[Captain Blood]

Oooh I like those 

[Eclaireur]

Very nice indeed! My own painting skills can't match your Caunter type colour scheme - and anyway I wanted my carriers for Tunisia any Italy, where many photos show vehicles simply painted in standard WD dark green. I just made them very dusty 
I note too that you had some frustration with the amount of mould-release material used by Blitzkreig, making it very hard to get paint to adhere. After asking here and elsewhere, I have ended up rubbing my Blitzkreig vehicles in white spirit, then washing them in soapy water, rinse, undercoat with an enamel primer, then an acrylic base coat. Seems like quite a faff when Warlord resins will take acrylic primer sprays straight from the box. But the Blitzkreig vehicles are very nicely done...
EC 

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Cheers EC,

I normally soak them overnight in soapy water before giving them a good scrub. I then use a spray primer? I'll try the white spirit on the next vehicle I do.

Regards Ken

[Phil Robinson]

Splendidly turned out those. Great tutorials too.

[grant]

They do look great!

[Beast of Bukhara]

Looking good

[lou passejaire]

Carriers in caunter scheme ... sometimes, i whish to make a Desert British early war army just for the caunter scheme ... 

nice job ...

[grant]

This is a cool PDF with some Carriers in Greece having been transferred from the desert.

http://media.wix.com/ugd/279ff1_f9e8d4f7d38a4f15b045593ff1c0afec.pdf

And more Caunter (which isn't blue  )

http://media.wix.com/ugd/279ff1_53a7320344074242a6c0d3fa84788e7c.pdf

Even more:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/279ff1_2d04a6e05f874848ab4dfc66ffe9e8a5.pdf

All great references from the finest site - download the PDFs before the site dies someday. http://www.armouredacorn.com is dynamite.