6MMRPC Week Twenty-Six: 7.5cm LG40 Platoon

In the final week of the painting challenge I delved into the unfinished-projects area of my display case and found a few things to knock out in the limited hours I had last week.  I just started a new job in retail and between the Thanksgiving holiday and the insanity that is the American holiday shopping season my hobby time was extremely limited.  All of my Great War projects are on hold until I can purchase rare decals, and my Ki-45 is also on hold until I find it's decals...

The 7.5cm LG40 recoilless gun was almost exclusively issued to Fallschirmjäger units and provides a cheap platoon for Flames of War FJ lists.  I started these a few years ago when I built my Cassino FJs but changed my list, putting these on hold indefinitely.  Everything was done except for the guns themselves, so I used AK Interactive's Wash for Dark Yellow along the lines, cleaned off the excess, and glued them onto the already finished bases before a quick coat of Testors Matte Varnish.  Only took about three years to complete an hour's work!

I love these little guns in game, now I can finally use them!

Tiny little recoilless guns.

I also put some finishing touches on some vehicles I painted up for Shifting Sands about a year ago, I hate bases on tanks but Forged in Battle was the only manufacturer that made the Panther F or the sWS version of the Panzerwerfer 42.  Links to previous posts:
http://flamesofnerd.blogspot.com/2015/01/panther-f-schmalturm.html
http://flamesofnerd.blogspot.com/2015/01/panzerwerfer-42-auf-sws-battery.html

A quick paint and wash of the base, plus some tufts from CGR for these '1946' Panther Fs.

Same here to finish off these alternate style Panzerwerfers.

 I spent my second and final Joker on a few items from the Battlefront 33% off sale, purchasing a pair of Sturmtigers, some BMW motorcycles, and a Sd Kfz 253 for my Shifting Sands list for 2016.  I made it all the way to the final week having only spent one, and that was at a 'con.

BMWs were backordered, hopefully they arrive by January.

I had a blast with this challenge and I think I'm going to keep to the 'don't buy anything new' thing for awhile.  The vehicles weren't on my list of unfinished projects, but I do get to blast two guns from the Mountain!  

Panther F Schmalturm

Shifting Sands this year is a late '44 what-if scenario and allowed for some great prototype designs to be fielded in Flames of War.  I chose to paint a pair of Panther Fs, equipped with the schmalturm, an experimental turret that was to become standard on the next generation of German tanks had the war progressed that far.  These are armed with the 8.8cm L/71 gun.  I went with the so-called 'octopus' camo pattern, a design that appeared in the last days of the war.  It was to be the new standard by August of 1945.  Again, these are from Forged in Battle, crew by Battlefront.  Used Ammo of Migs paint line for the first time, nice colors, but I'll thin them down some more next time.

First time using a putty mask, am happy with the results.

The spots are freehand, as are the primer sections.

I'll be adding some more weathering to these eventually, was hurried a bit because of the tournament.

Ammo of Mig paints are nice, though they sprayed a bit thick.