Archive for December, 2008

Panzer IV Platoon Finished

December 9, 2008 at 4:12 am · Filed under Flames of War, gaming ·Tagged , , ,

These have been done for about a week, and have seen several games already. I am only now getting around to posting images because of a painting tutorial that I am working on at the moment (stay tuned!) (Note: I discontinued this tutorial because I realized that there were a million tutorials online about how to paint late war German camo. Check out the painting section of the community forum at www.flamesofwar.com for some great examples). I am pleased with the way that these came together. The methods that I used on my StuG IIIs worked well here too.

Full Platoon

Command Tank

Panzer IVh



Panzer IVh

Panzer IVh

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Inspiration : Chinese Demon

December 8, 2008 at 8:51 pm · Filed under miniature sculpting, miniatures, modeling ·Tagged , , , ,

http://www.coolminiornot.com/206961

This is a very cool model!! Some of the Helldorado minis are incredible. This is gives me some inspiration for my WFB Djinn for the Undead of Araby project. It captures the way I wanted to model the smoke that the Djinn is materializing from very well.

There is so much good stuff out there these days!!

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Flames of War page reorganization

December 5, 2008 at 9:30 pm · Filed under Flames of War, modeling - gaming - hobby ·Tagged , ,

One of the first posts that was created for this blog was a page that had a tutorial on painting DAK vehicles for the WWII table top game Flames of War. I have decided to use this page as a holding area for any articles that I create regarding painting, modeling for, or playing Flames of War. The original Painting Afrikakorps article is the first entry into this section of the site. Future articles will include more painting step by steps, as well as tutorials on sculpting, and making terrain.

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Work in progress : Panzer IVh platoon

December 1, 2008 at 2:06 am · Filed under Flames of War, gaming, miniatures, painting, table top games, wargames ·Tagged , , ,

With a bunch of time off of work for Thanksgiving, I actually had some time to make progress on several of my projects. In addition to the Tiger tank in the previous post, I also was able to make some headway on a platoon of Panzer IV tanks.

Flames of War Panzer IV tank by Xenite

I used these very effectively in a recent game, and I think that they will be common when I run panzer companies in Flames of War. It will be nice to have them fully painted the next time that they see the field.

Flames of War Panzer IV tank by Xenite

The scheme that am using for these is essentially the same as the Tiger, and the StuG III tanks. I tried some different ways to layer the camo, and really came to the conclusion that whatever gives me the best pattern, and simplifies the process of painting is the best method. After painting the camo shapes, the next coat of dry-brushed Vallejo Middlestone paint really ties the paint work together.

Flames of War Panzer IV tank by Xenite

The next step with these tanks is to give the highlights a final pass to pick out detail. This is done by painting over detail areas with slightly watered down Middlestone + White. Less is more with this, and thin lines get the edges of the vehicle, and its detail to pop. Thicker lines tend to look sloppy.

Following highlights, the tracks, details, and possibly some camo-netting will be next!

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