28mm late war British & Germans

[Tom Dulski]

oh, is that a CURE reference?

[Ash]

oh, is that a CURE reference?

One of my previous tank commander attempts had a certain, undeniable 'Fat Bob' look about him. Thought it appropriate to shoehorn in another reference...

[carlos marighela]

Tigers would be ‘Love Cats’ surely? I’m sure there’s a forest reference pending in your other thread

Just don’t do Iraq or the Arab Israeli Wars. The Cure ref is bound to cause offence and not just to Camus fans. 

[Ash]

Following on with the Arnhem theme, I dug out my one section of Paras that I'd added to my late War winter Brits. Hacked off the snow etc and redid the bases, adjusted the rather purple berets etc etc











Also been hunting on eBay for other metal Paras from the same range; picked up the 2" mortar team, characters & command section, plus the airborne carts.

Looking forward to the Empress kickstarter Paras due out in October, been thinking about some more urban looking bases, saw the superb and quite frankly gorgeous results Cubs posted:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=141250.0
Amazed that anyone can make bricks like that from chopped up sprue, I'm sure if I tried I'd end up needing stitches... I did however shamelessly plagiarize his idea re the slings, although mine still look like they are made of paper...

Here's a couple from the Characters pack. Little bricks, sand, slate chips and little pieces of balsa.

[Marine0846]

Great looking British Airborne.
Love them.

[Ash]

Here's the rest:

Command section





2" Mortar team

[carlos marighela]

 Lovely work Ash!

[Ash]

Thanks Carlos. Here's the carts.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant!

[Akrim]

"I knew you always wanted me to ask but I didn't want to give you the satisfaction. But why are you always carrying that damned umbrella everywhere?"

Wow Ash! These are really incredible - bravo on the brushwork. Ive seen many of your works over the years but this is top notch.

[Ash]

Thanks chaps.

I'm pretty pleased with the way these turned out. Some of the berets have gone a little bit too far in the dark purple direction, but I can fix that on the next batch.

Colours used were:

Trousers: Vallejo 'English Uniform', shaded with Vallejo Game Wash 'Umber' (aka Lavado Sombra), highlighted with base colour +'German cam. Beige WW2'.
Webbing: Vallejo 'Russian Uniform'. shaded with Vallejo Game Wash 'Umber', highlighted with base colour +'German cam. Beige WW2'. Some parts, such as radio spares bags, first aid bags, barrel spares bag etc were, as per the winter blokes, based with khaki instead. Also the odd piece of kit, things that may not have been blanco'd.
Smocks: Vallejo 'German cam. Beige WW2', the green bits were AK 'Gunship Green', brown bits AK 'Red Brown'. Got them in the AK WWII British Uniform Colours set, which would probably do for most of the colours used here, aside from 'Russian Uniform'. I did find them a little thin on the coverage front, but that actually worked well for the camo. Thin wash of the 'Umber' all over, then a sort of pin wash of 'Umber' into seam lines, pocket flaps, edges of straps etc.
Skin: There are much better resulting recipes out there,  I go with two thin layers of Vallejo 'Flat Flesh', a thin wash of purple ink (same stuff used mixed with 'Carmine Red, on the berets ), highlight 'Flat Flesh', highlight 'Light Flesh', stubble to taste, thin wash of 'Umber'.
Helmets: Vallejo 'German Cam. Dark Green', dry brushed with 'Russian Uniform' to highlight the net. Then 'Luftwaffe cam. Green' and 'Khaki' for the scrim, gave the whole lot a wash of 'Umber wash', then a dry brush with 'German cam. Beige WW2'. Probably need to go back and add a thin coat of the green to some of the scrim to make it show.

Pretty much 'Umber wash' on everything to shade, and mix 'German cam. Beige WWII' into base colours for highlights. Sort of pull it all together.
The Umber has a nice warm tone filter effect. I used it on the last SS as well, whereas on the first go at Pea Dot, on the Empress Figures I tried one of the few Citadel products I really like 'Athonian Camoshade', and surprise surprise as a filter it completely knocked back all the magenta/pinkish tones turning them more of a sand colour. It is great over green based camo patterns like Tiger Stripe, not so useful over anything pinkish such as British Windproof smocks or Pea Dot etc.

[Digits]

Very lovely paintwork fella, I really like these…..the piat guy looks just like Grandad……though he wasn’t in the paras!

[Ash]

Cheers Dave, I believe he was based on Al Murray, aka the pub landlord.

[CapnJim]

Your recent additions look great.  Hardly a surprise there, though...  

[brunei35]

Really like the carts and the painting of the figures is exceptional. Thanks for posting