LRDG Trucks completed

 

Finally. These two LRDG trucks and their six crew have taken much longer to complete than any of the previous vehicles. So much stowage.  And it hasn't helped that time available to paint has been less available.

Following on from the work in progress post, the basecoats were built up and the many, many pieces of stowage were painted, repainted, washed, and highlighted. The wheel hubs were airbrushed by making a small paper and tape mask to shield the rubber and light stone, blue, or pink was applied.

The Company B decals were added to both vehicles; the decals needed to have excess backing trimmed and were susceptible to surface scratching - more so than other decals I've used. The scratching wasn't very important as they were going to get weathered anyway, but it meant I had to be very careful during the process.

Each of the six crew was detailed, though I'm still not happy with my ability to do faces. The Warlord crew are in a nice variety of clothes, a mix of KD shirts and shorts, leather chaplis sandals, BD trousers and jerseys, FS and knitted caps, and the iconic Arab keffiyeh headdress. 

The crew and vehicles were assembled and varnished, and then weathered in much the same manner as the Marmon-Herrington armoured car using AMMO of Mig Jimenez Ochre for Light Sand as a filter coat, with AK Interactive Africa Dust added to edges and areas were dust would build up, and finally some AK North Africa dust pigment was added, mostly to the tires.

A final coat of varnish, and the first two LRDG 30 cwt trucks are finally ready to roll off my worktable.

I'm not sure what I'll do next.  Ideally it should either be Konflikt '47 infantry or some more of this "Behind Enemy Lines" force, but I think it'll have to be something simple and relaxing.

Konflikt 47 US Heavy Infantry

Work and other activities continue to reduce painting, but I did manage to complete five US Heavy Infantry for Konflikt '47.

The figures were primed with Vallejo Olive Drab surface primer before being base coated with VMA Olive Drab.

AK Interactive paints from a US Army set supplied red leather, canvas tone, field drab, and olive green for the belts, pouches, boots, and bits of equipment on the models. The US flags and the Sgt.'s stripes came courtesy of some Warlord paratrooper decals.

After sealing the acrylic an Ammo of Mig enamel wash was used - the same as for the M5A2 Coyote. I'd decided that as these models were encased in heavy armor that I'd treat them almost as mini-vehicles and repeat the same weathering techniques that I'd used on the walker, just a little less heavily.

The figures got some scavenged 30mm bases - the standard Warlord bases looked just a little small, but the Warlord 40mm bases looked huge.  These ones were donated by some Dreamforge troopers and seem to fir well. The bases were finished with some flock and Army Painter "tufts".

One of these days I might even have a finished Konflikt '47 force... just have to actually paint some standard infantry now.

Next up though there are two LRDG 30cwt trucks that are ever-so-slowly moving towards completion.