02/10/2013

More rebasing - German Engineers

Sorting a force for the 2nd Panzer is causing me no end of bother, as the new infantry figures are so much batter than the other units I was planning to use. The Engineers are a particular example, not just a simple rebase was needed but close to a complete repaint. They were originally painted in my impressionist period, e.g. paint grey apply a black wash then highlight any distinct items. So I checked all the orbats and added a few extra figures so I could make any of the Engineer units in the Rapid Fire lists. The figures are dominantly the Revell German Engineers with a few Italeri and Plastic Soldier added. The Mortar and MMG (somehow missing from the picture?) are only needed for late war so I used the Armourfast figures.

In the background are a couple of rebased Airfix 88mm, which have had Hasegawa crews added (I found them in a bag of odd figures I acquired)

7 comments:

João Pedro Peixoto said...

good looking group!

peter said...

Great army Will! Excellent work!

Greetings
Peter

Stryker said...

Very smart - I particularly like the 88's !

Service Ration Distribution (Hobby) said...

Excellent. You can't have too many engineers and these look like a very business like unit. I'm very taken with your bases.

Thomas said...

Good job!

Marfac70 said...

Hi Will. Could you kindly confirm which colour do you use for geramn uniform? I generalky use valleio field grey but find it a little darker than your wonderfull engineers.thanks in advance

Fire at Will said...

Marfac, the German uniforms have been painted with Vallejo Field grey, but mixed with Humbrol white to lighten it. I think the ratio is about 3:1.

I use the Humbrol as it has more binder than the Vallejo so it wears less in use.