Painting 1/72 prints.

I missed painting 1/72 scaleso ordered some printed US troops, but I made a mistake and ordered marines instead. In the end I painted them as standard army troops.

They are Join or Die 28mm sculpts downscaled to 1/72.

Here is a comparative shot with some Italeri soft plastic 1/72 US troops. As you can see, the marines are slight smaller and thicker, and they also have bigger rifles and heads but they look better on the table because of this.

You can appreciate two different ways of painting, one with diluted painting (faster) and another with strong wash and lights. Which one do you think is better?

And here a German grenadier section that I needed to complet a squad. I tried SS greenleaf camo on the two rifles on the right, and panzer grenadier camo on the MG team and officer, but It did't turn out very accurate.

Last Perrys

I have finally finished the 42 miniatures that come in the box. It has taken me quite a bit of time because I've been distracted by other stuff from the hobby as you can see from my previous posts.

I must say this box is a bargain. 42 models giving you men to deploy two 30cal. machine gun teams, bazooka team, sniper, BARs, sergeants and lieutenant enough for a platoon for just 20 quids!

The painting is tabletop standard as I painted them with diluted paints and a wash; no lights.

These guys were the last batch I had to paint.

Then I realised that I needed a third BAR and I had used all the soldiers, so I took the spare lieutenant and cut off the leather bag with maps and glue on top of that a belt with cartridges for the BAR.

And there it is the whole platoon painted. Now I will have an observer, a medic and a light mortar team printed and then I will consider this proyect done.

Another patrol

During Xmas holidays I came back to my house rules and tinkered with them a bit and then tried a scenario. 

I don't know about you guys but tinkering with house rules has been for me another part of the hobby that I love as much as painting, playing games and collecting and reading rulesets.

I played an US regular squad on patrol in a 80x80 cm board for DBA 3. Their mission was reaching the opposite side and come back, with a plus bonus if they get a prisoner for interrogation.

I divided my squad in a 2 men scout team on the left, a BAR section in the middle and the rest of the them with the sergeant on the right to check the big house in front of them.

The BAR section moved at the double and took position on the top of the hill, ready to give firing support, and immediately after that they spot some enemies.

Half a elite squad with a MG34 that engaged fire with them. I forgot to take pictures of the sergeant with the section killing a German scout team hidden in the house and then entering and helping the BAR section to kill the MG34 team. Only one member of the BAR section survived.

On the other side, the American scout team had almost reached their objective. Again, forgot to take pictures of German coming down the road and finishing them after a fierce shootout.

Meanwhile, German soldiers sneaked behind sargeant's boys who were finishing the MG34, and fired at some of them outside whereas assaulted the house in hand-to-hand combat. There were two rounds of intense fighting, with grenades flying from both sides and shooting through the windows.

My squad won the fight but ended with only two men standing, and more Germans were coming down the road. However, the managed to get one prisoner alive and leave the place.

 

So they didn't scout the whole board but brought one prisoner. There were 2 KIA, 2 maimed, another 2 in hospital and the rest recovered. I had fun so it was a victory ;-)

DBA 2.2 II/81 C Romano British army

My first entry for 2025. Although it has less bases than Numidians, it took me much more timeto finish it as the models, from Cromarty, are extremely detailed.

Full army: 1x3Kn or 3Cv (Gn), 2x3Cv, 1x 4Sp or 2LH, 7x4Sp, 1x2Ps.

This is Kn Gn and reminds me a bit to Arthur from the movie King Arthur 2004.

This is Cv Gn. Another version of King Arthur.

Happy New Year everyone!