A number of years ago I bought a copy of the Flames of War rules and Fetunga Europa army lists. At the time I decided my budget was better spent elsewhere and thought about converting the rules to 1/72 scale. however time meant that this never happened, no surprise there.
Anyhow recently I was in my local shop and saw a few boxes of plastic soldier company items and on a whim decided to buy a pack of panzer IV's, a pack of half tracks and half track conversion kit. To go with this in the discount box were two boxes of wargames factory german infantry. So I had my items but no idea how I they were going to slot together in a force but was definiely thinking mechanized panzer grenadiers.
I had the idea of putting together two forces 1 German and 1 Russian setting myself two rules, to keep it down in price, and to paint it as simply as I could as I still had various other projects on the go which were more involved and one of the reasons why I decided to resurrect a FOW force.
First night I put quickly put together a sample of one of the 5 Panzer IV models and found it an absolute pleasure. Then on the weekend in a spare hour I built the other 4.
I will tell more as the army builds (I have already made some additional purchases) and post the odd painted picture.