T-34 Paint Guide

As part of the NUTS! painting effort I have dragged out a long forgotten objective marker of a destroyed T-34.

Apart from the obvious colour - some inspiration was needed about the finer details... The marker is basically base coated and needs work on weathering in general - tracks specifically.

• T-34 track detail
• A nicely weathered T-34/85
• Brilliant winter weathering, inlcudes some interior detail. Just fantastic. Green with envy even.
• More weathering on a T-34 obr. 1941
• 1943 model T-34/75
• Image of a museum T-34/85
  

Some nice pictures of a 1/16 scale (!) captured T-34 showing great detail on the tracks. Came from this post on the Scale Model site, which unfortunately needs a login to view.

WW2 Russians

I have made a start on my forces for NUTS!. The discovery of some left over figures from my Guards Air Landing force for FoW settled the question of which theatre to play.

The left over figures did not include any of the Degtyarev DP LMGs, so I have ordered some from the local Peter Pig distributer along with an OPFOR of late war Germans.

I also have a vague inclination to get some Japanese as well, to be opponents in the Manchurian campaign - something a little different.

Here is an early picture of the two groups (aka sections, squads) of a Russian platoon. These figures are from the FoW range.

Despite my best efforts, these tovarishes look a little dark - they look better in person. Still a bit more highlighting and weathering to do, but they are beginning to take shape.


The basic set of colours in use here are:

Tunic
Tamiya Khaki

Boots
GW Chaos Black

Gun
GW Bestial Brown

Helmet
Vallejo Russian Green

Gun Metal
GW Chainmail

Pouches
GW Graveyard Earth/GW Bleached Bone 50:50

Rain Poncho
GW Catachan Green over GW Graveyard Earth

HOTT Skeletons

While I had the camera out I decided it was past time to capture some class photos for my army of skeletons.

The spears are a recent addition and have not been based yet. In the meantime I have completely changed my basing technique, so I have to relearn the old way... Oops.

Artillery. Next to useless in practice, but nice little diorama.
Sand bags and cannon balls hand made from Milliput

Dark Riders. Someone ought to get those horses some oats.


Lurker.


Blades.
Some effort was put into making the metal rusty looking, including orange surface rust and the deeper red iron cancer.


Shooters.
They are carrying crossbows if that is not completely clear.


Necromancer as the Magician who raised the skeleton army.
Has a skeleton standard bearer and a sorcerer or some other magical assistant.


The necromancer's Stronghold.
I was a bit inspired by Orthanc in the construction. All the rivets are PVA drops applied with a piece of brass rod.


Spears.
Cannot quite figure out what the shako or WW2 helmet is all about...


Wraith Sneakers

Japanese DBA

I have put together a Japanese army for a DBA campaign at the club. We are using some modified rules to add teppo as Shot - basically Bow with factor changes.

Here are some photos of my army. I will be playing Uesugi, who was a monk. Accordingly his blade entourage are naginata wielding sohei.

The campaign is yet to start, but I plan to post some results.

Sohei Blades with naginata

Ashigaru teppo Shot

Ashigaru Spear

Ashigaru bow, being run as Psiloi

Samurai Cavalry command.
The centre figure is Uesugi, made with a head swap from a sohei figure.

WW2 Paint Guides

I have made a purchase of some figures for NUTS! and found myself wondering how to paint them.

So here is another post in the WW2 theme, this time tracking web resources on painting schemes and guides

Any recommendations for this list will be gratefully accepted. :)

British (and Commonwealth?)

• British Infantry - Flames of War website
• British and Canadian infantry - Bolt Action Miniatures. Very detailed, sadly light on pictures. Colour charts for Citadel and Vallejo.
• British Airborne - Great Escape Games
• British Commando - Great Escape Games
  

German

• German infantry - Lloydian Modelling Tips. This is really nice article on German infantry.
• German infantry - Bolt Action Miniatures. Very detailed, sadly light on pictures. Colour charts for Citadel and Vallejo.
  
• SS Pea Dot camouflage - Flames of War website
  
• German Infantry 1939-1945 - Flames of War website. Not completely sure about this one - disagrees with the Lloydian site above...
• Fallschirmjager camouflage - Flames of War website.
• Waffen SS - Great Escape Games
• Wermacht Heer - Great Escape Games
• Vallejo Colour Guide - The Miniatures Page post. Bit hard to read, but great resource.
• Splinter Pattern Image - Steve's Page of Camo
• Suggest Colours for Splinter Pattern - Colorado Minatures
• German Camouflage Patterns - kamouflage.net
  

Russian

• Russian Infantry - Amazon Miniature. A general page with some good detail on Russians:
• Russian infantry - Bolt Action Miniatures. Very detailed, some pictures. Colour selections for Citadel and Vallejo.
• Russian Infantry - Great Escape Games. Step by step pictures and colour guide. Nice.
  

United States

• US Airborne - Flames of War website
• American Army - Bolt Action Miniatures. Very detailed.
• US Infantry - Great Escape Games
• US Airborne - Tom Weiss

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