PolishGI’s Working Thread (WWII & Vietnam)

Guroburov · Post by **Guroburov** » Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:39 am

More awesome stuff there.

Steve

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:28 am

As part of the November is paint a GHQ Helicopter Month thread

WIPâ€¦

These are pretty straightforward PITAsâ€¦

With the rotors off, I went ahead and made the rotor blur pieces. A bit larger than the CH47 rotors so new pieces had to be made.

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 2:19 am

Adding some more WIP picsâ€¦

Russian BT-5

Russian BT5s and BT8s

Russian BT8s

Russian BT5s

German Opel 3t Trucks

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:52 am

Slowly wrapping up my CH53s that I have been sitting on for a while now.

Placement of the magnet underneath is critical. These magnets and the stand are doing all they can to keep the CH53 in the air.

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:14 am

Almost done with the Russian BT5s, BT8s and German Opel 3t trucks.

BT5s charging into the battle before they get knocked outâ€¦

BT8s

German Opel 3-ton Trucks

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:30 am

Excellent stuff!! Are you also doing early war Russians and Germans?

Helo looks sweet too- thanks for sharing!!

Guroburov · Post by **Guroburov** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:29 am

Lovely work, as always.

Steve

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 9:36 am

BurtWolf wrote:Excellent stuff!! Are you also doing early war Russians and Germans?

Helo looks sweet too- thanks for sharing!!

Thank you Burt! Oddly enough, I am trying to capture all of the different eras/fronts at the same time. Currently, I am working on the early years in the west and the east (Poland, France, Belgium, BEF, Finland etc). The eastern front â€™41-45â€¦ And also the western front post June 1944 and on. I have a ton of scenario books from over the years so that helps me stay on task.

Next up would be North Afrika and then work on a snow set of vehicles. (although I doubt that will happen) I always found North Afrika interesting with the Italians, DAK and the Commonwealth forces beating each other up.

The CFO allowed me to order a bunch of GHQ stuff for Black Friday for my birthday and holiday. Consulting the spreadsheet inventory, I donâ€™t have a lot left to grab for the European theater which is a first.

Once that is complete, then I need to switch gears and start working on creating a desert board and picking up more vehicles. Could be worse things I am into, right? Hehe I need to get to playing more these days instead of collecting, painting and building.

Guroburov wrote:Lovely work, as always.

Steve

Thank you Steve! I get so much motivation from checking out everyone elseâ€™s stuff here that it gives me ideas to continue working on my stuff. Just hoping to give back what I have been able to receive I guessâ€¦

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:32 am

I have the same affliction - I am Close to wrapped up the east front late war troops, as well as West front, and went right into DAK and the desert war. I have to figure out how to make a table for that, and because I have all the time in the world, sarcasm implied, I thought it would be a good idea to start purchasing France 1940 stuff. Oh and I have been slowly collecting aircraft as well and not painting themâ€¦ waiting for the other shoe to drop to start the pacific campaign lol.

Let me know your thoughts on a desert board, looking for the advice...

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:37 am

BurtWolf wrote:I have the same affliction - I am Close to wrapped up the east front late war troops, as well as West front, and went right into DAK and the desert war. I have to figure out how to make a table for that, and because I have all the time in the world, sarcasm implied, I thought it would be a good idea to start purchasing France 1940 stuff. Oh and I have been slowly collecting aircraft as well and not painting themâ€¦ waiting for the other shoe to drop to start the pacific campaign lol.

Let me know your thoughts on a desert board, looking for the advice...

haha thats awesome! Makes me feel better... totally get the sarcasm.. lol

We should all group up and start a GHQ-anonymous support group... lol

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:58 am

Adding a few WIP shotsâ€¦

SdKfz 7s are nice to haul around the interesting ATGsâ€¦

German 37mm guns

sIG 15cm

Panzerjager IB

Whatâ€™s life without a little bit of fun?
German Cavalry and Pack Animals

I was able to finish off our tabletop board. Now I need to crank the hedgerows into high gear to complete the board entirely. Hoping to run an airborne scenario over the Holiday break.

Guroburov · Post by **Guroburov** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:03 am

Wow! Simply WOW!

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:15 am

Quite the project...or should I say, projects, you got going on there. Very nice stuff.
I have often thought about the hex terrain, but storage would be a hassle, but it sure looks nice

Your WWII vehicles. What size of bases are you using?

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:37 am

Guroburov wrote:Wow! Simply WOW!

Thank you kindly!

dougeagle wrote:Quite the project...or should I say, projects, you got going on there. Very nice stuff.
I have often thought about the hex terrain, but storage would be a hassle, but it sure looks nice

Your WWII vehicles. What size of bases are you using?

Hehe I almost bit off more than I could chew with this ping pong table idea and hedgerows. I have another 50 hedgerow popsicle sticks in progress tonight that I am working on. Trying to see what kind of dent I can put on the table. Motivation is starting to falter thoughâ€¦ haha eyes going crosseyed.

Thank you! I have a little bit of everything at this point. My hope is that I have enough to cover most years but we shall see.

I like the hex terrain but I can see the issue with storage that is commonly associated with it. When we moved into this house (new build) a few years back, I had to hang ceiling fans in almost every room and two in the game room. These boxes are quite sizable. So I gather the hexes in groups and neatly stack them into the fan boxes. The plain jane flat hexes are easy as you can stack them to the top so I can place quite a few hexes in each box. The village/town hexes take a little more room as you would expect as do the forest sections. But I am lucky to have a spot in the garage where I can stack the fan boxes on top of each and every one is happy. Then just a trip or two upstairs/downstairs to bring the hexes.

Thank you for the kind words.

Regarding the basesâ€¦ I purchase my styrene from Amazon as I can maximize the sheet count for the best price. I use .040â€ thick styrene for my bases as that is about as tall as I want to get without looking like the vehicle is on â€˜somethingâ€™. Any thinner and the base gets a little flexible. Plus .040 works for me when I am scratch building something.

My â€˜standardâ€™ base is Â¾-inch wide by 1 inch long. But I use Â¾-inch by Â¾ inch for my infantry so they can fit into the town/village areas/buildings without taking up too much room. And for my long barreled vehicles I go Â¾-inch wide and 1.5 inches long.

Ideally, I would go without the base but I know the vehicleâ€™s barrel will be on borrowed time. I find that the base helps protect the vehicleâ€™s barrel from bending. I really have to do something special (read stupid) to get a barrel to bend on me. Even with the addition of the vehicle antennas, those even help lower the blow if I become butter fingers.

And in the end, its fun to create a mini diorama/base for each vehicle. I try to mirror the hex terrain I am making and hope everything â€˜blends inâ€™. My hope is that the base will then disappear somewhat. With the base attached, it also gives me the bottom side to add the vehicle type and give it an auto number that is unique. With this unique number, then I can reconcile that with my excel file for an inventory count. This way I know what I have and what is left to get. Seems to work...

Hope that helps.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:36 pm

That board looks excellent. I plan to adopt your village approach on the hexes. I have to monkey around and find out the best way to do bocage.