WIP WW 2 projects taking shape, slowly and a new tool for basing.

 

The AA tank on the right has an integral base, all others had bases added by me.

The new tool a device to cut corners, to round them off.

Finally making some progress on my 20mm WW2 stuff assisted by this tool.

WWII Germans painted for What a Tanker!

 

So we are eventually going to test out the rules for anti tank guns and man portable anti tank weapons, therefore I needed some German panzerfaust troops (I also need to crew my antitank guns).

For the panzerfaust teams I decided to paint up the Germans that came with Italeri anti tank weapons box set, The set is of debatable value, feel free to check out the review at plastic soldier review. The two poses are kind of odd, but I was in a hurry so I decided to just go for it. Well once I started painting them my disappoint in them grew. 

Note the standing figure, look at his left arm there is a lot of dead space from the front view and check out how long he left arm is in the side view. Also where does that weapon go, it seems to disappear into his torso.  As for the kneeling guy, what is he doing, where is he aiming? Must be quite a crest that the enemy is coming over! He too has quite the long left arm.

Also note the 'details' of the figures equipment. It is all pretty splotchy looking.

In the end despite all the challenges the figures came out ok. The agrax earth shade wash certainly went a log way towards saving these guys. Prior to the wash, with only base paints applied the figures looked pretty pathetic. Now they are passable and will work for WaT.

Terminator Genisys 17 Resistance soldiers

 

So, I got these done in time for tomorrows first game of Terminator Genisys. (Hopefully this gets played) They are fairly dull looking figures but they are supposed to be in combat camouflage! The figure in front is Kyle Reese, it is metal, the rest are plastic miniatures. The plastic figures came with separate arms that snapped onto a one piece torso/head/legs. I tried to mix up the 'poses' but there is only so much you can do.

Terminator Genisys finally got some figures fully painted up!

 

So, 30 Terminators and 15 'crawlers' painted up and ready for action. The pictures do not capture the many layers of metal paints that went on these guys or the many grey paints used on the bases. 

Can't see the forest for the...

 

 Trees!

Finally getting around to working on some scenery. In this case I am trying to fix up some already built forests, while also building some new forest bases, and some forest 'outlines'. The Mod Podge actually is not being used for this, it just happens to be on the table. The old forests are on the left side, the trees on these are fixed in place, but I plan to pry them off and place magnets where they used to be. This should allow me to better store these bits of terrain as the tress can be stored separately from the bases (that can be stacked for easy storage.

On the far right you can see the forest outlines that I am working on, these can be used with individually mounted trees. The idea is that when troops enter the woods one can remove the trees but keep the outline on the table to delineate the footprint of the woods.

None of this is all that innovative but it is a project that is long overdue to be done, just like the corn fields that have sat in storage for a few years.