World War 2 - 15mm Project - Part 3 - The Germans

Well this is the painting task that broke the camels back so to speak, after painting almost 100 British with Camo smocks the roughly 40 Germans I had to paint again in Camo tunics sent me over the edge for a few weeks as I just couldn't face doing anymore camo patterns. I still have another platoon and some vehicles to do but the platoon and vehicles that I have finished will do me for now, as its plenty to play Bolt Action with.

So onto the minis, these are either Battlefront or Peter Pig and as per the British Airborne post the Peter Pig miniatures are the much nicer of the two. Battlefronts minis was not overly clear and the poses were dull in the main, whilst Mr Pigs were crisply cast with loads of detail and in my opinion were better posed.

First up the HQ elements:

Next the three 9 man squads each with a slightly different load out as regards MG's:

And finally a few vehicles the STUG & Halftrack are from Battlefront and M/C combo from Peter Pig(I still need to buy and add some transfer for these as yet):

I have currently got a Fantasy itch that I need to scratch, so the Sci-Fi and WW2 stuff is on the back burner for the moment as I concentrate on finishing my Pocketquest stuff and dip my toe into 15mm Dragon Rampant.

World War 2 - 15mm Project - Part 2 - Scenery

Having purchased two opposing 15mm WW2 forces, I knew I would have to pick up a few bits of scenery as although I had a few trees, hedges and hills, the only 15mm buildings I owned were not really suitable. Not wanting to spend a fortune I found a load of cheap resin(£2-5) buildings on E-bay and a few MDF kits.


These two ruined MDF shops cost £5 on E-bay:

The resin buildings from E-bay:

Roadblock/Barricade from Peter Pig:

Whilst a have a few really nice trees saved from my (now sold) 20mm WW2 project, it wasn't really enough, so back to E-bay for a load of cheap Chinese trees which I chopped up a bit for some variation, once based they look ok:

 

After playing a big game of Bolt Action on a 6x4ft table, I realised I needed more buildings, so I picked these two lovely MDF buildings up

 

And this smaller building too(which was the same price as the larger), I must say this kit was a bit disappointing(all the other MDF kits went together fine and I would recommend them) and did not fit together very well or meet my expectations size-wise, in fact I nearly binned it half way through and I will probably turn it into to a ruin at some point.

 

Finally, I bought some Timecast fences and walls, having bought the same sets in 6mm, I knew they would be nice: 

 

I realised I needed to base the gate after setting up this picture, so I got my 5 year old daughter to do it whilst I was doing something else:

I should have the last of my 15mm Sci-Fi colony buildings done in the next few days as I'm just slapping it on now as I'm sick of seeing them on my desk.