{"id":6927,"date":"2017-09-13T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:19:23","slug":"tanks-for-the-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6927","title":{"rendered":"Tanks for the memories…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blitzkrieg Miniatures 1:48 scale Pz. Kfw. III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been working on a stack of kits that were sitting on my war room floor. \u00a0These included some Bandai plastic kits and some Blitzkrieg Miniatures resin kits. \u00a0This is part of my campaign to be able to walk into the war room.<\/p>\n

All of these kits will find themselves in a Combat Patrol(TM): WWII game soon.<\/p>\n

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Blitzkrieg Miniatures Stu.III and a Bandai 232<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much of my WWII ETO gaming is early war — Finland, Poland, and France. \u00a0I painted these in the early war paint scheme. \u00a0I’ll add some hand painted crosses to these this evening or tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n

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Bandai Hetzer and Pz.IV H<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These late war tanks will get their crosses this evening as well. \u00a0This gave me a chance to get out my new airbrush and do the camouflage. \u00a0I have found the results are very dependent on the viscosity of the paint. \u00a0The Vallejo Model Air paints go through the brush like a dream, but I could NOT get the cheap craft paint to flow. \u00a0The Pz. IV skies are probably too fragile for gaming. \u00a0We’ll see. \u00a0I also plant to apply some foliage clusters to the front of the Hetzer for some visual interest.<\/p>\n

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Bandai Matilda II tanks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These were really fun kits to assemble. \u00a0I don’t game the desert campaign. \u00a0I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to use these. \u00a0On a recent trip to the Bovington tank museum, I bought a little book that showed this paint scheme for the Matildas in France in 1940. \u00a0I painted them in those colors for that campaign and also for some hypothetical Sea Lion games.<\/p>\n

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Bandai AT-ST "Chicken Walker"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also assembled this for the upcoming Star Wars supplement to Combat Patrol(TM). \u00a0This was a fun kit. \u00a0I may get another one. \u00a0I generally like to employ vehicles in pairs.<\/p>\n