Pete's descent into 20mm Late War update 27/12/23 - Churchill Mk IV 75mm

[PeteW]

Those US Airborne are really excellent, may I ask what colours you have used, as I reckon they are spot on?

Shahbahraz - Thanks.

As for the colours used, and don’t hate for this, they are a real smorgasbord of the paints I have accumulated over the years.

When painting the Germans, it was all about the camouflage scheme, with that providing the “visual interest” of the figures. The challenge with the US Para’s is how to make a figure that is essential olive drab all over interesting.

These two figures were pretty much painted as a test bed to establish what colours to use and how best to paint the figures, and I must re-emphasize they are stunning figures from Adler.

So as I can tell I’m starting to waffle here, my process for these is as follows.

1.   Primed white
2.   Base costed with Vallejo 71.012 Dark Green (this is a model Air paint and applied with the airbrush across the whole figure).
3.   M43 uniform painted with Scale75 SFG13 Undead Flesh
4.   Nuln Oil applied not as a flood wash, but rather painted as a pin wash in the shadow areas, and to outline pockets, seams and other details.
5.   A second coat of thin undead flesh painted to clean up areas from the nuln oil.
6.   M43 highlights then painted with a mixture of undead flesh, SFG41 Hykey Yellow and a light gray.
7.   Webbing, pouches and backpacks etc were then touched up with Andrea Colour AC-5 Russian Khaki, and then highlighted with a little Hykey Yellow being added to the Russian Khaki
8.   Helmet, grenades, torches etc painted with AK 3025 Medium Green, with scrim painted/drybrushed with the remnants of the undead flesh, and hykey yellow on the palette.
9.   The helmet and webbing then had nuln oil carefully applied into recesses and shadow areas.

To my mind the secret to painting these figures is to create a strong contrast between the shadow and in light areas. This is what creates the visual interest, giving the figures depth. Little accents of colour then enhance this, the faces, boots, gloves weapon stocks etc.



Any questions, please do ask

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[Shahbahraz]

Thanks for taking the time for a detailed reply...  I will have to experiment.

[Tom Dulski]

That German pea dot camo looks AMAZING.

[PeteW]

Cheers Tom

The full Office/NCO pack from Adler now painted, together with a scratch built farmhouse.

 

  - Convince me this isn't Ronald Spears dashing through Foy !

 







2mm mdf, self-adhesive brickwork, foam board and card. Total cost £4.50

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[BillK]

Wonderful jb on the scratchbuild.
Really do like those Para paint jobs.
Great detail on Alder 20mms.

[PeteW]

Cheers Bill

The first German support arrives, but some bloke called Ryan is loitering. PSC 251/D









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[CapnJim]

Now that is some more good looking stuff.  Germans, Americans, figures, vehicles, buildings - something for everyone!   Nicely done! 

[PeteW]

What to do when you receive a damaged sprue - well first you arrange a replacement, and then you utilise what you have. In this case we end up with a little bit of table scatter or a destroyed vehicle marker. The PSC 1/72 Sdkfz 250 neu.













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[fred]

Great work - the idea and scratch built pieces really work well together.

I don’t think I’ve seen a failed injection moulded sprue before - took me a while to work out what I was looking at, very odd.

[PeteW]

A Churchill for the CoC Support List - Dragon NA kit converted to a Mk IV 75mm for use in NWE - Ostensibly from 147th Regt RAC.











Just need to get a crew figure in a pixie suit for this one.

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[FreakyFenton]

Great stuff! And lovely modelling!

[TacticalPainter]

Just catching up with this thread and not sure how I missed it. Lovely work here on everything, while the AB Figures I know well, I’m yet to acquire any Adler but they look first class too. Great thread.

[moiterei_1984]

You‘ve got some fabulous stuff on display here!

[PeteW]

Cheers Gents for the kind words.

With the Churchill out of the way I'm now making some barrage markers.
Wire, soft foam and clump, along with a liberal application of pva glue and then painted.



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[FreakyFenton]

Very effective, and thank you for the tutorial!