1914 Belgium - UD 18/12 - news re German infantry paint scheme

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all!   

Have now started painting the third town tile. 

And yes, more Wars of the Roses is on the cards for later this year! 

[verd]

Everything in this thread is great! Thanks for sharing all the process.

[Silent Invader]

Everything in this thread is great! Thanks for sharing all the process.

Thank you and you're welcome 

[Mason]

Clever bugger, if a tad mental 

Yarp!
 

[Elk101]

Just catching up on this; the Minerva is a triumph! I also very much like the terrain tiles, with the ditch an especially nice addition. As regards softening the edge if the road, would an occasional clump of static grass at the roadside help as it would detract the eye from the linear edge and just appear as a slightly off centre clump if you widened the road with an additional section?

[Silent Invader]

Ta chaps 

That's an interesting suggestion Steve - I shall have an experimentation as it just might work very well with short grass. 

[Silent Invader]

As I'm finishing off tile 3 I've taken the opportunity to add the 'connecting patches' of sand to the other road sections, as indicated by the white glue areas in the image below.  I've also decided to add more rubble to the interiors of tile 1 as compared to the others it was a bit bare.

[Malamute]

You are going at this like a man possessed. (which is fantastic as the speed that we are seeing the updates is amazing)

Keep going, I'm loving seeing it come together.

[Silent Invader]

 Me, possessed?    

EDIT: Hmmm, this morning I was writing notes for my 2016 project so maybe I am......

[Mason]

Me, possessed?    

It would explain quite a lot......

[Silent Invader]

The bicycles have been placed amongst the workshop debris (painting to follow):






Also, just to note that the addition of a small section of roof and its accompanying loft floor (left-hand house) has created an additional, high-level firing point.

[Slayer]

that debris looks great now

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

Cheers 

I watched All Quiet on the Western Front (1970s version) the other day, which has great cinematic (as opposed to documentary) footage of a wrecked town and something that stood out to me was the small fires, presumably from ruptured gas pipes.  If all goes according to plan, I should be able to have flickering LEDs in the small holes in the floors of some of the buildings, which might give the impression of fire.

[Constable Bertrand]

Wo, wo, wo. 

Your telling us Steve, you bought expensive styrene bikes, converted and added chain guards, only to chop them up??! You are a mad man!

but if that's what your going for - I'd have thought heating with flame and bending would have been more realistic for damage to steel/aluminum from bombs.

Cheers
Matt.