Red God of War

Finally finished my Soviet Artillery.  I've been playing way to much World of Tanks.  But I'm putting an end to that.  I've just been so busy its a lot easier to sit down and play a video game for an hour or so then to sit and paint.

Anyway, one thing I tried to do is paint them as fast as I could.  I didn't worry about mistakes I would just go back and fix them later.  Seemed to work OK.  Let me know if you think they are ok with out highlighting.  Guns and Tanks I will still highlight.  But with so many infantry to paint, I have to take shortcuts some where.

Can you tell?

The major change with these guys is I did no highlighting on the soldiers.  Just to many soviets, and that step takes way to long.  I've put my 57mm gun and the 76mm gun to see if there is even a difference.  Close up yes, but with so many guys on the table and in the middle of a game, no one will ever know except me.

So, I have a tournament coming August 20th, and I've done more painting today, then I have in the last 3 months combined.  Hopefully I'll have some more pic's soon.  Including my revamped Marder III m's.

Lets see how the new camera with some lighting turned out.  There are still a lot of settings I can play with.  I think with any camera you have to get used to it.  These were all taken with landscape setting.  My have to try something different.  Color is weird. 

122mm

76mm

76mm

122mm

Lamps Extra Close

Tried to add a map.

Best Gun In The Game!

Finished my 57mm Zis-2 tank Destruction Company.

I think this is the best gun in the game.  For only 200 points, AT 11, RoF of 3, and a range of 32".

I can't wait to put these babies into action.

Tried something new with my basing with these.  I tried to use these grass tufts.  I makes the grass look like its standing up.  I could never get static grass to stand up, and the latest craze seems to be these tufts of grass.  Well they are awesome.  So easy to put on. And they look great.  Just have to match the colours to your flock as best you can.  I am definitively going to try and get my hands on a tonne of this stuff.

Next I move on to my God of War Battery, and then a whole lot of Strelkovy...yikes.

I am also doing FoW demo this weekend.  I hope to draw a few new players to the game.  Thank you to Joe Krone of Battlefront for the suggestions.

Enjoy the 57mm guns.

Whats to come?

I'm about half done a bunch of projects, so I thought I would post some picks of what I'm working on.  Don't know if you can see but this is almost everything I have on the go right now.

I was originally going to stick my Russian Infantry, but now a tournament is coming up ("near") where I live. And its going to be an Official Battlefront tournament, where the top 2 will be eligible for nationals. I have to go to this. And the only way I'm going to get a fully painted army is if I go with a tank army. I'm not sure what yet, but I've pulled out some German vehicles and started painting them. If they turn out good, I will figure out what army I will take from there.

One thing I've been working on is a step by step Konigstiger tutorial. here is a couple of pic's of how the Tiger II's look so far.  Its really the first time I will use all the new airbrush techniques along with doing camo with the airbrush.




I'm also painting some Sk Kfz 7/1 half-tracks. Thought it might be cool to show a couple of pic's of before and after a wash.


One of my favorite things that I'm working on right now is a BergePanther. For those that don't know, this is a Panther converted to a recovery vehicle. Its so cool. It was one of those things that is so cool, I was going to leave it until one of the last things I paint...but I couldn't wait any longer. I don't have any pictures of it yet, but it's almost done. I think its going to turn out pretty good.

Then there is everything else I need to do. All this infantry I already started. Soviet Anit-tank company, Soviet Artillary Company, and a Strelkovy Company. The Strelkovy company should be cool when its done. I decided to mix naval, grey coats, and regular Soviet infantry into one mixed Strelkovy Company.

And i'll leave you with a few pictures of everything I still need to paint. I have cupboards of assembled infantry, guns and tanks, and a whole shelf of unopened stuff. This doesn't even show the Panzer Lehr, and Italians that are in my flames of war bag unpainted.

Always Be Learning

I finished my Soviet Regimental Gun Company and my Anti-Tank Gun Company. I thought I would write this post comparing some of my old work to my new work. I believe in never doing anything unless you are always continually striving to get better. I've done a lot of trial and error of techniques over the last year, and I think things are getting a lot better, easier, and faster.

First, as embarrassing as it will be, I will show old pictures and compare then to similar units. This first picture was the first infantry I ever painted. The command team was a bit better because I discovered static grass instead of flock. I also found a different brown for the ground. You can clearly see in the back 2 I didn't even cover the figs bases. This was long before I discovered an airbrush. I was terrified to even try a wash, and I was having all kinds of trouble with aerosol primer and varnish. I actually stopped painting for a while because I was so fed up with shitty primer and varnish.

These are my Kommissar's. (* On a side note, I have no idea why we spell Commissar with a "C". From what I remember when I was trying to learn russian, it has no "C". A "K" is a "K" sound and an "S" is an "S" sound. So, I always spell it with a "K") Anyway these are my 1st try, 2nd try, and 3rd try. And the then 3 together. Big Difference. The last one is with an airbrush and wash.


These are 76mm anti-tank guns before and after I learned how to use an airbrush.


Same thing with Heavy Machine Gun.


As I said before I'm still not totally sold on the highlighting. It is a lot of extra work. You let me know what you think, of this batch of highlighting.
Edit* One thing I wanted to add, is that the down fall to all of this is that none of my army looks the same. Especially since I'm so slow at painting infantry. Hopefully i'll speed up and I can start painting separate armies.
Here are the rest of the pictures from this batch.