15mm CoC Panzer Lehr

[Mooby]

Hey everyone, I finished my core force for Chain of Command from my old Flames of War Panzer Lehr Panzergrenadiers, and I really wanted to share them with you all. It's the first time I've completed any 15mm project, so comments are very much welcomed.

Tom

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Looking excellent sir! I really like the basing’s texture and tone. So is that the basic platoon done with supports to follow? An extra squad is often useful in CoC as is a mortar/MMG. Keep up the good work.

BALM

[Mooby]

Precisely that, just the basic so far, although yes there is the obligatory extra squad in the box ready to be based up. I've still got to get a mortar and a few of the other Infantry support options, probably going to go for Peter Pig as he has quite the selection. Then it's on to the terrain support features 

[BeneathALeadMountain]

I’m a big Peter pig fan, and an obsessive re-header of 15mm (I’ve found that often the head is the weakest part of the sculpt on Battlefront’s chaps). Some generic loaders/assistants are very useful as they can do multiple jobs depending on what supports you’re using. Great work, I look forward to seeing the terrain.

BALM

[Storm-the-front]

I’m a big Peter pig fan, and an obsessive re-header of 15mm (I’ve found that often the head is the weakest part of the sculpt on Battlefront’s chaps). Some generic loaders/assistants are very useful as they can do multiple jobs depending on what supports you’re using. Great work, I look forward to seeing the terrain.

BALM

I struggle with Peter Pigs head sculpts. They tend to look like the school children in a Pink Floyd video. I think the Battlefront metal sculpts are far preferred when sculpted by Even Allen. That said, there are a few army types--Panzer Lehr being one of them--that are really disproportionate and bad.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Yes Evan’s stuff from the ‘end of FoW metal infantry’ era were excellent (and the hard plastics are very good, the newer resins are better than I thought), but a lot of the original metals have little to no face/uniform detail and some of them have terrible anatomical proportions (not ‘slightly heroic’ proportions just wrong). The Brit Commandoes have a chap who is an x shape, and then I imagine my great grandfather and great uncle running alongside him under fire, carrying weird Dave’s kit whilst he cartwheels up Sword the only way he knows how! 

Luckily I like Martin’s sculpting and use mainly PP infantry with bits of good FoW and FoW/PSC vehicles. Then if I can’t find a PP head I like or need more variants I just sculpt them.

Mooby - do you have an opfor planned or are you lucky enough to have a diligent opponent that is also interested?

BALM

[Mooby]

Luckily I have a few opponents, one Yank army and one Brit army, along with another German army player.

I do struggle with the PP faces, but for the price and options available, I'm not too fussy anymore.