Flames of War Afrika Korps

Got back into some serious painting and hobbying. I am working on my Flames of War stockpile. At the moment its Germans. Here is some in progress shots, they still need skin and some uniform highlights but the base color and washes are done.

Hopefully you get the idea here. I also ordered some Citadel Contrast paints since I'm cuious to see how they work. I also ordered a bunch of terrain pieces from Amera Plastic Mouldings to finish out my desert gaming board. I wanted to order some more ships from C in C like the others I did but come to find out they have been bought out and the World War I range is out of stock. Hopefully they return soon! I also got the rulebook for Sharp Practice and the narrative add-on Dawns and Departures. Would be fun to paint up a fictional German force just like Too Fat Lardies' writter Rich has done with Strudelheim.

I will do a step by step post with all the colors and everything when I get onto painting the guns for the rest of my Afrika Korp.

My GHQ M1A1 Abrams arrived. Enjoy some pics of them fresh out of the pack, They have a bit of flashing and some extra bits.

 Incredible detail for such a small miniature.

Im Excited to get the M113's I ordered from CinC. There models cost a lot less so if they have good detail I think I'll go CinC. These 5 models from GHQ cost about $14 USD including shipping. The M113s I orderd cost $4.50 USD including shipping.

Happy Wednesday! Just wanted to throw up a quick post about my new projects. I'm hoping to get into Micro Armor and build some armies. I ordered a set of M1A1 Abrams from GHQ and some M113's from C in C. I wanted to go with the cheaper option but I think I'll go with the best quality. Still looking for a rules set to play Micro Armor with, if you know any good ones shoot me a message. Also ordered a few board games from coolstuff inc since they are having a big sale, so expect some pics and maybe some unboxings of those.

Finished my Victory at Sea ships!

I gave them a simple paint job, they didn't have a ton of detail. Base coated them, then applied a black wash for the grey surfaces and the decks where washed with either flesh or sepia. Finally, I gave them highlights in light grey or a diluted white. I would definitely like to add to these fleets with battleships and carriers later on but, I have enough projects going on right now.

German Heavy Cruiser Scharnhorst.

 While researching these I learned a few things about German destroyers. They didn't have names and instead had numbers. These are actually B-97 class destroyers. The subsequent ships of the same class are given the name B-98, B-99 and so on, So indeed one of these ships is the B-110, but the others are not.

My German Fleet.

 British Cruiser Glasgow.

British Destroyers.

 My British Fleet.

Some packages arrived today!

I received my Reaper Paint set, and my World War 1 ships from C in C. 

Paints! Exciting! I plan on using these to paint my Firestorm Armada fleet. Its kinda hard to see as the sun was behind them in the photo, its 3 shades of green from Reaper Miniatures. They are really good paints. I bought these from Miniature Giant. 

 They came in these little boxes undamaged, and had only a little flashing to clean. 

Above is the Scharnhorst and the Glasgow.

 British and German destroyers.

They also sold WW1 planes so I picked up an Albatross just for fun.

I put the box cards in each picture so it would be easier to identify them. They are all World War 1 ships. B-110s are German destroyers and the M Class destroyers are British. As I stated above these are from C in C and are 1/2400 scale, I plan to use them for Victory at Sea. I'll post more pictures of the Albatross once its built. Hope to get these painted up really soon!