my Warsaw Uprising project for Flames of War

[eastern barbarian]

Ok guys, so I started working on my Warsaw Uprising project (finally!). Funnily enough, completely accidentally I made first base yesterday, exactly on 68th anniversary of uprising.
Now making some bases to be cast in resin later on.

you can follow the progress on my blog: www.mightyminiatures.wordpress.com


By wardancer36 at 2012-08-02


By wardancer36 at 2012-08-02

[Anatoli]

Will follow this with great  interest 

[eastern barbarian]

and now.. I don't have any artillery yet, but that doesn't mean I can't have the staff team right?


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[eastern barbarian]

Ok guys, since I have some time these days (not for long!) I'm getting more work done. Next in line are Pak40 and Kedyw SMG team with panzerfaust. Hope you like it More stuff getting ready, waiting for polyfiller to dry up on some bases to start working on next Pak40 team and sniper.


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[eastern barbarian]

So another day brings us another captured Pak40 and command SMG team with panzerfaust. How do you like it?

Pak40 crew consists of Battlefront and Peter Pig models whilst command team only Battlefront ones.



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[Sarmor]

The bases are great! Looking forward to see the minis painted!

One comment on the barricades though - sandbags weren't that popular, use more rubble, bricks and paving stones, even earth:




Though many different things were used for barricades:

[eastern barbarian]

thanks for kind words!  I know sandbags were not that popular, I will be experimenting with building barricades out of bricks and paving slabs as well

[Helen]

Very nice work going on here. Love the photos which provide a number of ideas for your project.

Cheers,

Helen

[eastern barbarian]

So finally another update!

Last two weeks had been pretty busy for me, but I still managed to do a little bit of work on my Warsaw Uprising project. First of all I made a new base with tram track on it, which after I cast some copies of it will provide good urban feel to my troops and each base can have stuff added to it, making them look different from each other.
I made another Kedyw panzerfaust SMG team, 5 PIAT teams, command SMG team with panzerfaust and a sniper team (that will have more bits added to the base once it's painted).
Next thing will be probably casting more bases and putting some guys on them to complete my AK and Kedyw units.
Still fair bit of models I need to get, but whole project begins to slowly take shape.


By wardancer36 at 2012-08-24


By wardancer36 at 2012-08-24



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[Anatoli]

Excellent stuff, I paitned a bunch of Warsaw Uprising Poles and some captured German equipment in 28mm a few years back. If I had someone to play this battle with I would perhaps make a 15mm project out of it as well.

[eastern barbarian]

Ok, another batch of miniatures done. Started painting my sniper team (as I want to add more scenery then and it would make it very difficult to paint afterwards). Base on the picture is obviously still WIP. Got some BF rubble bases and I have to say I am not that impressed. They require a lot of filling, greenstuffing gaps etc. (you can see it on the picture).  They are not bad though and also all the little extra bits on the sprue are great and I already copied some of them with instant mould to add to my other bases. And yes, still didn't cast mine, but it will happen and they will also be available for sale.
So I got another Kedwy SMG panzerfaust team, one AK rifle team and smg panzerfaust CO team. Hope you like them.


By wardancer36 at 2012-09-06

By wardancer36 at 2012-09-06

By wardancer36 at 2012-09-06

By wardancer36 at 2012-09-06

[eastern barbarian]

ok, finally another update. I had been busy with RealLifeTM and other gaming projects, but finished painting my first sniper team and started on captured Panzer IV (which is still WIP- I will be adding things to it   I am aware I am not a great painter, but I hope models are passable



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[Sarmor]

Nice! Especially the infantry.

Consider adding some Polish markings on the front of the tank. Apart from those already used on the Panzer IV, I've seen AK and the White Eagle painted on captured vehicles.
German markings should be there as well - they weren't fully covered, but rather had Polish markings painted on them.

[eastern barbarian]

thanks for the comment. Yes, I will add one marking in the front as well. Will try to get couple of decals with german crosses to put on the side and then paint badly over them. Another idea is to add couple of polish flags draped over the tank.

[Helen]

Nice work on the infantry an armour.

Cheers,

Helen