Fallschirmjäger Update #2! Rifles

Well, I was able to finish off some Fallschirmjager riflemen (21 in total) just the other night. This has been the chore of the army but also a huge part of the army that must be done and not as fun as painting the FG42s, MP40s, Snipers, etc....but with all armies, you need the basic guy to be able to play to fill out your units.

Now I am able to select something else now, I figure the FG42s and the LMG teams will be next.  After that who knows....

Here are some shots of the men in groups of 7 with a few close up snaps...

Test Fallschirmjäger painted up!

So, what do you think?

I went with the Splittermuster 41 camo pattern using the tan base. So far, I like the way how it turned out and I think this could be an easy pattern to paint up quickly.

This is where I found the information for painting the uniform:

http://www.artizandesigns.com/guides/FarnworthColoursGermanFallshirmjagerWW2.pdf

Overall, I am pleased and I feel this will be a great start to the army! I just need to touch up the base and clean up a few things and maybe work on the face slightly for the eyes and I am done!

Drop your comments!

Iron Ivan Invades!

Well,  I got my Iron Ivan books in the mail this weekend! Now I have Point Blank and Angriff! to go with my core rules of Disposable Heroes. I was talking to my friends this weekend and we are looking forward to sitting down within the next month and playing a few games. Already we are working on basing our figures and cleaning with painting just around the bend.

I just managed to finish basing most of my Fallschirmjager with a few leftovers set off to the side like some extra snipers and radio men (the packs I bought had 3 snipers/spotters and the radio set had 4 radio men in it, just need one it seems). Add in the Panzer M, the G that is in the mail plus the two Kubelwagons and a Truck I am sitting pretty good. What I am lacking is about a dozen  M-40s and 4 more light machine gunes to round out the list. When it is all said and done I should have a command squad, 4 full squads and able to fill up any of my support including two PAK 40s, Mortar Team, Panzerfaust Teams and a Sniper unit. Not bad...looking forward to matching to war!

Einfallen!

Well, had two nice surprises in may mail box today. The first was my copy of Iron Ivans Disposable Heroes and a Coffin for Seven Brothers that I won on Ebay and the second goodie item was my order from Black Tree Designs back when they had their half off Memorial Day sale and I had a 10% bonus coupon to use!

While I have not had time to read over Disposable Heroes, I have only heard good things about it and everyone seems to enjoy it and find it to be very easy to learn and fun with a good application of historical and realism as well. I just need to get ANGRIFF! (the German book) and the Point Blank Rules (for squads) and I am ready to go! Well, I do need to boost up my Fallschirmjager and the Wehrmacht that I just received to round out the model selection.

Overall I was pleased with the Black Tree Designs product for the price. There is the usual flash you get with the industry so nothing new there. The Panzer M is all metal and it appears the comments on the Internet are right that it could be hell to assemble this beast. After doing a head count, I had an extra SMG in the platoon kit which was a cool bonus perk. My only two complaints is that they did not have the Wehrmacht radio men I ordered and it is on back order. The other complaint if you can call it that is the lack of the MP-40's for the Fallschirmjager, instead the blister came with MP-44's. I had planned to buy some as they are upgrades but now I just need to add them to my main order.

I hope to be playing my first game by about July, one of the last issues I have is trying to figure out how to base the figures. I am thinking of going the cheap route and use washers that seems to be a very common thing among players or buy some of the thin plastic bases that are sold out there.

Tonight I am getting a Panzer G from an online trade and I have won an Ebay auction that had two Kubelwagons, a flatbed truck and a PAK40 that states is missing some parts. I hope to figure out what is missing and either rig something else or perhaps make a quick copy with a resin kit to replace the missing parts for a second PAK40 gun.

Stay tuned as the army starts to march to progress! I figure in a month the Russians will be on the way, between the deal with Plastic Soldier company and a few tanks the Russians would be very playable very quickly for just right at a $100 or so.