Japanese 1946

This time some Japanese '46 aircraft, a j4m senden pusher fighter and a couple of reverse engineered me262 known as ki201 karyu, the first is a raiden model the ki201s are H&R me262s

TA183 raiden minitures

More Luftwaffe '46 stuff, this time a FW ta183 jet, nice well detailed model

p59 airacomet 3d print

A bell p59 airacomet, I had this 3d printed at my local library,cost £2, the aircraft it's self was a mediocre jet but in Luftwaffe 46 the us field what ever they can, the model is ok on topside but rough on underside but is ok for the money and spray painted with Vallejo paints easy enough

H&R ar234

A pair of heroics ar234's ready to make a fast run on any bridge that needs bringing down,painted same way as ju287 below

H&R ju287

A pair of heroics ju287 bombers for lutwaffe 46 games, tried GW soulstone technical paint on the cockpits, certainly shinny but not right to me,rest Vallejo rlm paints

Tempest mkV

No post for 4 years, not from lack of painting just not got round to posting, but lets see if I can get in going. First up a couple of raiden tempests

Spray paint

Got a can of plastic soldier company's spray paint with a view to using it to mass paint my russians quickly, was a bit worried, as the paint is for use on larger scale models, and also is designed to be used as a primer and base coat all in one, that it might obliterate the detail on my 1/285th models.
So i gave it a try on a c-in-c t34 and while i was at it i had a can of battlefront's middlestone spray for german armour knocking around so gave that a go on a ghq stug as well.

  They came out pretty well. Coverage is good and i didn't lose any of the fine detail.This is going to really speed up painting large numbers of tanks. One word of caution if you try it is when you first spray don't panic as it looks like a lot of the detail is gone but as the paint dries it returns.

ISU-152

Here is a soviet heavy SU regiment equipped with isu-152's,
just right for suppressing german 88's. 

At Last!!

A post!
been a while since i last posted, things have been up and down, but everything is better with tanks so here is some pictures of what i've been upto
Got my hands on some GHQ models and i have to say they might not be cheap but you can certainly tell the difference.
befitting these quality models i tried stepping up the painting with adding in some dry brushing for a first time for me. even though i'm still getting the hang of it i am pleased with the result and i shall be using it on all my painting jobs from now on.
Still cant get my static grass to stand up well though.
Jagdpanther (yet to add unit id to base) 

Brumbar

Hetzer

 more stuff coming soon hopefully

Unit ID

In a new first i based some units with static grass. I used 1mm static grass so it didn't look to tall but I'm still working on how to get it to stand up.Also with these units i printed out some unit id's to go on the rear of the bases, since i play blitzkrieg commander or spearhead each base represents a platoon, it just kind of adds a little something to the story of the game at least that's what i think anyway.

                      Cromwell squadron

                                      close up of base

           Some Pz iv/70 of 116th panzer division
                             

H&R He177

I painted this up and it didn't seem quite right to me, on closer inspection in some books i noted that the model represents an early mark where;s the most numerous and version i, like the A-5 has two turrets on the upper body. So i decided to add these with modellers putty and put some machine guns made out of household paint brush bristles much better.

 

Lost my bag of flight stands somewhere in the house move so its grounded for now.As for the colour scheme i went for German day bomber colours as i see this aircraft hitting targets on the eastern front using its speed and altitude to avoid russian fighters, can never get mottling to work though must get an airbrush at some point.

Where've i gone?

a house move has caused a lack of posts and a lack of wargaming type behaviour but I'm settled in now and things are starting to happen such as this

Tanks!!!

i think I've had enough of painting planes, so I'm going to start some blitzkrieg commander late war armies. i always thought i would do late war flames of war because that's what people here play but having had the rulebook for a while and read through it it just doesn't work for me.So even if it means playing solo I'm going to do it because all my favourite vehicles are in service in 1944
Here is my first purchase just to wet my appetite.

C-in-c cromwells

C-in-c jagdpz iv70

IL2 sturmovik

The ranks of my air forces continue to enlarge, here is the latest a couple single seat IL2 by H&R

Heroics Ross il2

FW190

A pair of H&R FW190's in Russian front winter camouflage

Heroics ross FW190

i must say the h&r model seems to not quite capture the shape of the FW190 might upgrade to a raiden one

Typhoon

A pair of H&R typhoon 1B's

Heroics Ross typhoon

Didn't know British aircraft had such colourful spinners but googling some images for colour schemes and they all seem to have it

He 162

A pair of H&R He162 German fighter jets

Heroics ross HE162

one of my favorite aircraft of WWII ever since i read the commando book 'The jets from nowhere' as a boy great!

Yak-1

A pair of H&R yak1's, i got a .05mm fine liner pen and thought i would give a go at drawing in the flap lines and it is much easier than trying to paint the cockpit.

Heroics ross Yak-1

DO-217e-5

here is a Dornier DO217e-5 carrying a couple of HS293 guided bombs

Heroics ross Do-217

 and a look at the bomb

i never know what colour to paint the cockpit blue, white or black never seems right oh well

FRENCH AIRCRAFT

here is a couple of i think  H&R french aircraft i got off ebay with no information. looking on the internet i think the one on the left is a morane-saulnier M.S.406 and the one on the right is a Bloch MB.152 not a great paint job and for some reason the french used blue with green and brown for their camouflage not too sure where they are trying to hide