Panzers on the march...

Last post I showed off some recently completed American tanks for Bolt Action, but they were not all that commission contained.  Part of this rather large commission were a good number of German vehicles.  These are not yet done being painted but I felt a few work in progress pictures would be cool.  I usually do not take many WIP pictures as I work on commissions.  I am usually too invested to take the time to snap a few pictures.  While it makes the clients happy as I am able to knock out the commissions faster it is quite boring to my readers.  So why not give it a shot today. 

Well you have Panthers, Tigers, and Opels...Oh My.  Yeah it is not the standard phrase but if you were an Allied tanker then "Oh My" would be the tamest thing you would say.  The Panthers here are in Ambush camouflage and merely await final touches.  The Halftracks and trucks are almost complete and feature a camo scheme matching some past German vehicles I have done.  The Panzer IVs will also feature Ambush once I get to them.  The other tanks will feature schemes chosen by my client.  That Maus will indeed be one of my favorites to work on as it gets the Girls Und Panzer treatment.  So much German armor but I must admit I quite enjoy painting German vehicles.

Troops assembled...

Yeah I know it is a boring title but what the hey.  Yesterday I finished the mass of troops for this American commission and for a second there I thought it was a Soviet army with so much infantry.  All told the count is as follows...

6x SMG equipped attendants
2x pistol equipped attendants
5x twelve man Rifle squads with an SMG and two BARs each
2x bazooka teams
2x sniper teams

So a total of 72 plastic infantry figures.  Now yesterday I was hoping to get them primed but the weather did not cooperate.  Today looks to be the same so I may be taking these to a friend's auto body shop to borrow his paint booth. 

This much infantry has me both dreading and yet still looking forward to starting my  Soviet army next month.  With this same client sending me Soviets at some point in the near future this will be good practice.  

Look for my next update on Monday.

Assembling the troops

Normally I come up with a nice title to go with the content of my updates and this one seemed to fit both literally and figuratively.   I have begun the task of assembling all the plastic miniatures which is something I do quite enjoy.   Out of this mass of figures there will be several squads,  some Bazooka teams, a few snipers, and a handful of attendants for the HQ units that can have them. 

As with any project featuring plastic figures I begin by clipping and cleaning the mold lines from the figures.  This is of course done with the back of a hobby knife to prevent gouging the plastic as you scape off the mold lines.  These figures all had a mold line running along the bodies but it is an easy one to remove.  The kneeling poses were assembled and all were glued to their bases.  I recommend only using plastic glue as I have almost never seen a good plastic figure assembled with super glue.

This evening starts the real fun as I glue pouches on the belts and get to work assembling the rest of the figures.   More updates to come.