28mm late war British & Germans Arnhem etc

[CapnJim]

Those jeeps look good....

[warburton]

Brilliant - well done.

[Ash]

Here's my effort with the Dutch resistance chaps.

[carlos marighela]

Those are glorious!  :-*That's some of your best work right there mate! That really is total football.

[Ash]

Thanks Carlos, that's very nice of you to say so.
Must confess, I pretty much made them up with the paints already out on my desk. Light grey/dark grey, khaki, the browns I use on rifles and base edges, the blue I added to the light grey I did the para wings with, hence the blue'ish jumper.

That's all of the Arnhem Heroes Kickstarter figures done just now. Out of ww2 stuff, but quite fancy having a go at a Panther G, and maybe some sort of Jerry jeep.

[fred]

This is a fantastic set of figures for Arnhem - not just the civilians, the jeeps and the paras going back a few pages!

[CapnJim]

I'm with carlos.  Those resistance fellers look grand.  Well done, lad!

[carlos marighela]

You know if you fancied supplementing those Dutch resistance chaps, then there's more than a few likely candidates in Empress' German Revolution range. By the very same sculptor too. A few of mine are currently serving as pre-war Sudeten German terrorists, they are remarkably useful and versatile figures. The Empress Romanians give you some tin hats if you fancy fielding more.

[Ash]

Thanks guys.
Just had a look at the 'German revolution' range , the first couple of packs CIV1 & CIV2 would fit with these very nicely.

[Ash]

Finally got hold of a Panther Ausf G.
A 3D resin print from Imperator Models.
Also came with schurzen side panels, a commander figure and an MG.

I made a bit of a mess with the experimental zimmerit, and should probably have scraped it off to have a better go,
however my inner procrastinating apathy gene kicked in, and managed to convince the rest of me that 'it'll look fine with a coat of camo and some dirt'...



...if not, can always scrape it off and have another go.

[CapnJim]

No worries, zimmerit was not always as perfectly applied as some model kits would have you believe.  I think it looks fine, and I'm with your inner procrastinating apathy gene (I have one of those too...).  A little paint and some weathering, and Bob's your uncle! (to use a phrase from you side of the pond...) 

[carlos marighela]

Agreed. It was hand applied and some of the real article looks a damn site rougher than yours. Good to go with a paint job IMO.

[Basementboy]

Zimmerit looks great to me!

[fred]

Zimmerit looks fine.

Is it correct that the Germans were the only real users of magnetic anti-tank mines/charges, so Zimmerit was a pretty pointless counter-measure that they applied?

[Ash]

Finally got around to finishing this off.