Sherman Platoon (1) - Battlefront - Open Fire

3 updates in 1 day?! this is madness!

So at the same time I bought my Jochen Peiper Panther I also bought the Open Fire set from Battlefront, because I had heard great things about it and also it could be fun to have a small allied army as well.

What can I say,  the box is amazing. I would recommend it to anyone thinking about starting up playing (or just painting) Flames of War since this set contains everything you need. The infantry in this set is probably the best Battlefront have ever done and even better, they are plastic! The vehicles are also quite nice (Plastic aswell) though the shermans didn't fit together all that great to be honest (Still possible to assemble don't worry!). I sincerly hope this is the new standard of upcoming Battlefront products (Especially the infantry, jesus they are gorgeous), but not to say I don't like the resin vehicles they are currently producing, hopefully they will continue to do that aswell.

But enough talk about the Open Fire set! Let me preset the second project I will be working on alongside my command Panther. One of the 3 Sherman platoons from the set. It's been a while since I painted an allied WW2 vechicle (can be seen here and here), so I'm also looking forward to this build and hopefully they will turn out decent :-p To be honest I don't really like painting allied tanks...so boring just green, but I'll make the sacrifice because the Open Fire set deserve it.

This is the current progress. I painting them while also painting my Panther (and probably paid the most attention to that). I did try my hand at some homemade sandbags for the Platoon leader and I think they turned out ok.


Thats it for now, I'll keep you updated as soon as I have more progress!


Chris

Jochen Peiper - Battlefront - GE896

Hello hello

As promised in my previous post (a few minutes ago), more updates was on their way.
This is actually one of my newest purchases and damn it's a beautiful sculpted panther from Battlefront.

Since Jochen Peiper isn't actually affiliated with my army of choice I'm probably just going to use the tank as a command Panther or something (When I don't feel like using my Tiger).

I just started painting it today and decided to try some new things instead of just doing it the same way as usual, so I'm quite excited to see how it turns out.

As you can probably see there is still quite a long way to go, but so far I'm fairly happy with how it looks.

Some things could be better of course, but next time I try the same techniques I'll hopefully do better.

I'll update as I progress!


Chris

HS 129 B3 - Battlefront - AC006

'Allo 'Allo

Its been a while since the last time i posted anything(I'm sorry!), but fear not ! I have a few things lines up on the conveyor belt, so hopefully there will be a decent flow of updates in the near future.

Starting with this thing of beauty from Battlefront, The Hs 129 Panzerknacker.

I purchased this set some time ago, but never really got around to actually painting it (I think my Leopard project is to blame for this), but now I figured it was time to finish it. I haven't painted a scale plane since I was a little lad and those was in scale 1/72 as I recall, so this was quite fun and interesting to paint and a nice breath of fresh air compared to all the tanks I've painted lately.

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of the actual painting progress etc. and neither do I have any guide concerning what colors I used since most of them was just mixed from all sorts of other colors since I didn't actually have any Luftwaffe airplane colors (The "blue" color on the planes belly was mixed using Clear Blue from Tamiya for instance)

So without further ado let me present to you my latest addition to my Flames of War "army" (Lets be honest it's not really an army but more a large collection of different tanks)

Hope you liked it, there will be more updates coming up soon about my two current Flames of War projects.

Chris