Some pics of my late war German army

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nashorn88
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Some pics of my late war German army

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Airbrush late war using tamyia paints
https://www.flickr.com/gp/145819511@N07/oeGcp6
https://www.flickr.com/gp/145819511@N07/9ReZui
https://www.flickr.com/gp/145819511@N07/n58111
https://www.flickr.com/gp/145819511@N07/sRMSre

Just sprayed using dark yellow/ IJN green / red brown.
Yea , lots of sdkfz251
I just need to form some units.

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Very nice. The camo works well, and it was probably relatively fast to do, no?

Do yuo organize for specific rules or just to actual TO&E?

I've been refurbishing my own Germans - sorting into units, adding pieces to units as needed, etc. Very satisfying because it is so quick. Organize and mark and sort, done. Then add a truck or a limbered gun as needed. So you paint one or two models and "get" a whole new, complete unit. Just finished up 10 limbered 88s and a platoon of Jagdpanthers last night. Finishing the basing today and then off they go into the motor pool!
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Extra Crispy wrote:Very nice. The camo works well, and it was probably relatively fast to do, no?

Do yuo organize for specific rules or just to actual TO&E?

I've been refurbishing my own Germans - sorting into units, adding pieces to units as needed, etc. Very satisfying because it is so quick. Organize and mark and sort, done. Then add a truck or a limbered gun as needed. So you paint one or two models and "get" a whole new, complete unit. Just finished up 10 limbered 88s and a platoon of Jagdpanthers last night. Finishing the basing today and then off they go into the motor pool!
Very fast with air brush. I do a bunch at a time. I hope to do TOE but would need a lot of inf. I seen other use counters for the inf.
Btw : are you using steel base for your tanks? I like the way yours look with them

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Yes. Steel bases, magnet lined storage boxes.

I find the GHQ infatry are really very fast to paint too.

Prime in main uniform color, so Feldgrau of choice. Flesh. Black boots. Brown rifle if necessary. Then dark gray for helmet, kit. I can easily do an entire pack of infantry in an evening. Not including basing which I do in waves over 2-3 days. Glue down to base and paint brown. Sand one night. Ink wash the next. Finally dry brush and grass. Seal.
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Post by Sudwind »

Pretty nice kit! What airbrush and nozzle did you use? I had horrible experiences using an Aztek airbrush and never could get fine lines such as you did!

If you hit those with an ink wash and then a little dry brushing, they would be awesome and it would be relatively quick to do. Add some decals (a pain in the ** CENSORED **) and you have museum pieces.

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I don't see any vehicles! Clever Germans really matched their camo to the local terrain, Sturmoviks will never find 'em! :lol:

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Sudwind wrote:Pretty nice kit! What airbrush and nozzle did you use? I had horrible experiences using an Aztek airbrush and never could get fine lines such as you did!

If you hit those with an ink wash and then a little dry brushing, they would be awesome and it would be relatively quick to do. Add some decals (a pain in the ** CENSORED **) and you have museum pieces.
I had a great airbrush made by Tamiya but I dropped it and damaged the tip.
I found this airbrush set on amozon. Can't really paint a very fine line but it works and really pretty quiet . The Aztek is junk I was never able to get that to work.
Also I only use Tamiya paint with alcohol to thin so can't vouch for waterbase acrylics .
I just made some ink using floor wax and a little bit of black paint seems to work really well .
Yea, I hate working with the decals since it so hard to position and set.

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Post by chrisswim »

Nashorn,
The camo looks great. I really like the first two where you have dozens of vehicles in the camo. Nice job.
Chris

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