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Showing posts with label Schwimmwagen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schwimmwagen. Show all posts

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Car Trouble, Part IV

Finally painted the Schwimmwagen! After much debate, I settled on Ambush Camouflage (as seen on the cover of the Devil's Charge book). This was also to get some practice on it before painting up my King Tigers.


The project is coming along quite nicely. What I need to do next is paint up a driver (who will be in the water) and spectator (who will be laughing hysterically), and also add some realistic water to the base.


How do you think this is going? Any thoughts and comments are appreciated!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Car Trouble, Part III

This is the last update on this project for the time being....I do need to sleep sometime, after all.

I was able to cut that Schwimmwagen in half tonight as planned. My friend Ben let me borrow his hacksaw for the project. It took maybe half an hour to cut through the car.



Now that the hard part is done, the Schwimmwagen will need to be primed, painted and placed in its final resting place (after the water effect has been added). 


Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Car Trouble, Part II

Here's Part II of my latest project!

Once I got home I scrounged up the materials I would need for my crashed Schwimmwagen objective marker: base, model and blue foam. Not pictured is a ballpoint pen, metal file, glue and paint.


This was my first time using blue foam for modelling. What followed for the next few hours was a lot of cutting, gluing, painting and swearing. But ultimately this was the result:


The layout is a little different than what I had initially planned, but I like how it turned out. I may put trees along the banks of the river to give it more of an Ardennes feel, but I may not. With the Schwimmwagen added, it will look a little something like this.


The next step will be to cut the car in half in order to make it look like it's floating on its side. That will hopefully be done tonight. I'm contemplating adding bullet holes and other battle damage to the Schwimmwagen to make it look like it was run off the road during an Allied air raid. I suppose we'll see what happens as this progresses.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Car Trouble, Part I

The idea for a Flames of War objective struck my mind at work today, so I quickly grabbed a scratch sheet of paper. I got to thinking...what if some unlucky Schwimmwagen driver took a sharp turn too quickly and ended up in the drink? This is what I think it might look like.



I have a (non-FoW) 15mm Schwimmwagen that I need to use, and I think this just might be what I'm going to do. My friend Ben recently gave me some scraps of blue foam and so I think I can make the terrain rather easily.

Stay tuned for more updates!