See you on the beach

Some D-Day tanks and landing craft. At somepoint I will put on a big D-day battle with all my Flames of war stuff. I am not sure if I have enough of these minis to make it look epic enough yet.

I enjoyed painting these and probably the quickest things I have painted in a while as far as from when I started to when they were completed

Think the commanders that came with the tanks look more like Brits than the US Commanders. Guess they could be either though. I haven't put any decals on them yet for this reason and not sure if I am going to. May just leave them how they are.

Do I need more? More than likely I do...

Now onto the landing craft.

I already had 3 boats painted previously, However I never did paint the infantry for them. Since I was painting these other 3 boats and infantry. Just painted them all together to knock them out.

Always torn on whether I should base tanks on bases or not. So far I have not, and leave them as is for the tabletop. I think I will always question myself on this anytime I paint any vehicle smaller than 28mm

Germans

Small German command set for Flames of War/15mm

First time attempting a camo pattern by hand on 15mm vehicles. I tried a couple years ago with an airbrush on some German tanks. Turned out decent but I had used an ink over them and ended up repainting them.

 I think it came out pretty decent for first attempt. If anything I think I need to not make as big of lines with the camo paint. Maybe flare them as well a bit more.

Debated on painting the guys to put in the back of these transports. Finally decided not to. Mainly cause I already have 4 German transports with the guys in them so figured it would be easy to use these with no guys to pick out the difference between transports and just "gun" trucks.

Not to much with the Germans. They were one of the first armies I painted when I got into 15mm WW2. so in order to keep them all looking the same I didn't do much to them. Debated this for a while. Finally realized I'm to OCD to have some of an army be different looking so kept it the same paint scheme back when I was first painting 15mm. If I do some Africa or winter troops then I'll change it up.

USA Artillery

Here are some 105mm Artillary. Have a decent amount of USA 15mm put together. However finally got some artillery now to add

 All lined up

Side shot of them. All of them had the same figures so tried to switch it up on how they were placed on the base.

 Not to much to do with the guns. Put some highlights on them and painted some wood logs on the sides.

Now to get to shelling the enemy!

Soviet Infantry

Now onto the Soviets

 First time Painting Soviets for WW2. I painted some of the Team Yankee Soviets already. Not to much different with the uniforms from what I could tell. Could be totally off 

 Also first time using a Vallejo Texture for the Base. Took a bit more work like how it turned out though.

Nothing to crazy on these 15mm. Mainly only uniform and webbing have highlights on them. Rest was just a base color. 

 The rest of them all lined up

 A close up on the command units

Think I'm covered on the Soviet infantry. Just need some Artillery and ready to hit the field

British 15mm Vehicles

From the Monty's hounds set

All grouped up

 Nothing special on these guys. Tried to use Decals I have for Britain. However they must be too old as they kept tearing. So will need to add them whenever I get around to buying some more.

Nothing to crazy with the tanks either. I do like how the brown on the turret of the tank

Can't really see the tracks. Did what I have been doing on tank tracks lately. Painting Brown and using Nulin Oil twice on them. Not sure if I am going to add much to the UK force or not.

British 15mm Infantry

UK Motor Rifle Platoon

First attempt at painting UK troops for Flames of War. I think they came out pretty good.

This was the final guys left from Montys Hound set back before Flames went to the new edition

Trying for a close up here. I did use a Army Painter flesh wash on all the flesh parts. Added a bit more depth to the faces without having to highlight. Think I'll start doing this from now on. 

FOW Russians

All of the box set for Stalins Bears painted up

For the 3rd post for this years challenge I was able to paint up some Soviet tanks from the box set Stalins Bears. 

4xT-34/85 Tanks

Was going to just put red star decals on most the tanks but read that wasn't how all the tanks were. Not exactly trying to be historically accurate here so whether what I read was right or not the decals are on now. Would have been easy to just go with Red Stars and I'm sure everyone would have known exactly what they were. 

3x ISU-122 Assault guns

I'm polish so on the side of these tanks I put the polish decals. Again from what I read polish volunteers would do this if they were together in a tank. Historically accurate? I did a quick 5 min search so who knows

6xIS-2 heavy tanks

Final picture. You can't really see the treads well. I did something different with these than the normal way I have done treads on FOW tanks. Ended up painting them a brown and washing them twice with Nulin Oil to bring them down to almost a black. I like the effect on this rather than the straight black with some metal drybrush. A little metal on the treads probably wouldn't have hurt though 

Some German WW2

Finally finished my Ramsh's Charge box set. Not a bad box set to get some infantry, tanks and transports all at once in PLASTIC!!!

Here is the infantry. Some how I lost a base and have to wait for a replacement to show up. So wasn't able to fully base all of them.

I unfortunately didn't enjoy painting these guys as much as the US infantry I painted earlier.  I had a hard time finally choosing the paints I was going to use as well.

Now for the tanks and Half tracks. I was using an airbrush for the camo. Pretty sure I used the wrong wash as it really made the tanks look dark and dirty. However the airbrush lines were pretty thick as well

Doesn't look very historical accurate also not 100% sure I like how it turned out

They do look pretty good though for a camo woodland look I think.

Close up of the Commanders and infantry in the half tracks. 

US Flames of war

Well finally got most of Grimball's Beasts painted. I just have the 3 Pershing tanks left. I didn't get a full coat of primer on them with the airbrush so have to hit them again. Would say my favorite out of everything was painting the infantry in this set. There are about 10 different paints/washes that I used on them.

 Whats that on the right side? Team Yankee objective markers!! I will not be able to hold out much longer on painting up Team Yankee stuff!

 Close up on the infantry models. Pretty proud of the paint job on these guys

 First time using magnets on minis as well. Turrets are magnetized for easy removal when they get knocked out of the game

 Loving the different names on the tanks. 

 First time using decals. They look pretty good but close up under a light you can see the clear ring around them.

These of course are only one of my forces I am currently painting. Next up is the German force I have then back to the airbrush to prime more models after that!

All set to Prime away!

This is all the models I was able to put together before the challenge started. However they still need to be primed. Waiting on the wife to wake up before I turn on the airbrush. I would rather stick to a cup of coffee than an angry wife in the mornings.