Achtung – Panzer!

Well progress on the German platoon has bogged down in the last couple days... Whilst it did appear that the final stretch was just in sight, with only a couple figures left to paint and base, a sudden lack of motivation has led me down a more exciting path: support options. Taking a break from painting infantry has been a blessing, and being able to flesh out my support options will allow for more exciting games (the basic 3 German infantry sections vs 3 British infantry sections becomes quite dull after 4-5 games). Moreover, the arrival of German armor will definitely make the British PIAT team finally see some action, previously only having been employed once to fire against a German occupied house.

Painting soft edge camo by hand for the first time was definitely a lot harder than what I initially expected, and even though it has been a great learning experience, I'm not extremely pleased of the final result. I ended up going for some serious drybrushing to make the camo blend a bit more and stand out less. I definitely learnt my lesson that when it comes to camouflage patterns less is more.

Also I'm aware that parts are missing from both Stugs, the mg shield and mg34 that should be present aren't on, and a hatch is missing on one too. So I added some clump folliage to cover the missing bits up and add some extra spice! These happen to be some of my oldest Flames of War models and parts got lost a while ago unfortunately, seeing as these were the first tanks I painted I thought I might as well just use these older faulty models for practice :)

To give the German platoon some further choices I will probably in the near future start working on a fourth infantry section, a forward observer, an extra senior leader, an HMG, a sniper and an infantry gun. All these choices would then allow me great flexibility when fielding the platoon depending on the mission at hand.

However, now that this little side project is out of the way, I'll be jumping straight back to finishing the original German platoon.