Couple of Panzer IV Hs

Been trying to get these painted up for a few months, but a new baby and the holidays got in the way.  Finally got 'em done by sneaking off to the paint station after the kids were asleep.  Didn't really do much to these except mix and match some turrets, used the Biermeyer sculpt for my company commander.  I did use a combination of the old metal schurzen with the new plastic rails, liked the mounting points and skewed look of them.

Objectives

Made these a few months ago for a Schwere Panzer Bake list.

Sturmpanzer IVs

Finished these back in May, thought I'd put them up.

Panthers

Painted these up for Kublacon last month.

Thoma Schurzen

I decided to do some Thoma mesh schurzen for my late Sturmpanzer IVs.  I've always liked the looks of them and I wanted my assault guns to look different from everyone else's. 

My inspiration.

Cut panels.  Found a sheet of fine photo-etched brass mesh at a train shop a few months back and finally found a project for it.

Panels with styrene.  I glued lengths to the edges and trimmed them up after the glue dried.  

Full set for four tanks.  

Close up of a set.  Added the solid panel to the front panel and made three separate panels, in case I wanted to leave a few off.

Mounted set.  Test hung on a Sturmpanzer IV.  I used the plastic mounting tabs for the original schurzen from the kit but made a new mounting rail from brass rod.  The Thoma style had a different shape than the regular sheet metal ones.  Might add mounting brackets, not sure though.  

NorCal FOW April tournament

I attended the April edition of the NorCal tournament circuit at Endgame in Oakland yesterday and my friend Reno took a few pics.  Thought I'd share 'em.

My DAK army

The new exclusive 'Box of Mystery' objective

A friendly bedouin giving directions

Assaulted by Forrest's New Zealanders!

Lorraine Schleppers.  Way too expensive, but I love the models.  Didn't really do much all day.

Sneaky PaK40 protecting my artillery observation post.

DAK Nebelwerfers

Finally painted up some Nebs for my DAK list.  Been trying to do these for a few months now but kept putting it off.  Plan on using them for the Nor Cal circuit tournament in Oakland in April though, so I have a deadline.  Dumb thing is, they took me all of about an hour and a half to do.

One of the crews on bottle caps.  Started doing them this way in Korea, hence the Hangul.

Close up of one of the crews.

Whole battery.  Still need to do a wash and highlights, then groundwork.