First steps into Flames of War V4

This is the completed force so far. Im very happy with how it has turned out and im looking forward to seeing how it does on the table.

In the future i may go back and add some chipping effects and dirt.

I still have a few points remaining, im considering either a unit with recce to give me more options in the setting up of my force on the table or some air support just incase.

I do have a couple of m7 priest models which would be cool as they are good at removing pesky infantry even when they are dug in.

There are only enough points for one of the above so im going to have to choose carefully.

This is the last of my planned units finally finished and ready for the table.

I have now painted and based my infantry platoon. I have had a bit of a break from painting the army mainly due to the release of warcry as well as a few other projects i have on the go (imperial guard army, 20mm vietnam army, blackstone fortress and a halfling blood bowl team i have to finish)

The figures are from the plastic soldier company and are British paratroopers.

The rifle teams are going to be pretty useful to dig in and hold objectives im thinking it may be an idea to use armoured vehicles to transport them forward and then dig in on objectives.

I think in game they are going to need armoured support as i don’t hold out much hope for the piat against my regular opponents tiger platoon.

The denison smocks were fiddly to paint in the 15mm scale but i am pleased with how they turned out.

The trousers were painted vallejo english uniform, the smocks were based with gw’s karak stone with vallejo chocolate brown and reflective green patches. This was followed by a diluted agar earth shade wash.

The red berets look very bright in the pictures but are much more subdued without the camera flash.

I can’t wait to get the army on the table, i only have to paint the 25 pdr s and then work out what to spend my last 9 points on im thinking something with the scout and spear head rules would be useful as would some air support.

This week i have been mainly working on a way to store my Flames of war force in an old ammo case that i found at war and peace.

I was thinking of making wooden trays, but at work we had a delivery that was delivered in super strong card box’s. So doing my bit for the environment i liberated a few boxes to recycle into trays.

I was planning on using a hot glue gun to fix the card together, the only problem there was that i do not own one, as I’m quite impatient i decided to use pva glue with pins added to hold it together as the glue dried.

This made pretty strong trays that fit nice and snugly into the case they were a little to snug so removing them was a problem. To fix this i made handles using wooden bbq skewers, i just pushed them through the sides and added a blob of glue to hold them in place.

Once the glue was dry i wrapped the trays in newspaper and coated the whole thing in pva glue.

It was then time to paint them using cheap green acrylic paint, I’m pretty pleased with the finish the only thing left to do now is add a magnetic base to each tray to hold the models in place. I may also add some foam around the inside just incase anything decides to slide around in transit.

There is more than enough room to hold my 100 point force with a little space left for dice, tape measure and tokens. I was not able to make space for the rule book, but I’m still pretty pleased with the results.

Thats the hq unit complete and one unit of three tanks.

To make the hq unit stand out i added a flag made of greenstuff

the plastic soldier company models are pretty straight forward  to build and paint. The amount of detail on the tanks is superb.

New toys arrived in the post today, i now have a set of plastic soldier company churchill tanks, these will allow me to build my two tank hq and a three tank platoon.

The box set allows you to build multiple variants of the churchill tank including the avre with the huge boom gun. At the moment I can only find rules for the churchill mk iv so i will be building five of them when i get home from work tomorrow.

My first three units of tanks are now finished after a long night and a lot of episodes of red dwarf and coffee.

I’m pretty happy with how they came out, i may add some detail to the firefly later i think it would look cool with a wavy line on its barrel.

The M10’s were fun to paint but would advise painting the crew before sticking them down.

As a side project i am going to try and make an army case from this old ammo can i picked up at war and peace for five quid.

I know its not from ww2 but the rule of cool rides again.

My plan is to build trays to fit maybe with sponge inserts, its a work in progress at the moment.

Hopefully i should be able to fit my army, tokens ruler and mini rule book.

Time will tell.