Thijs and his miniatures

Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, the basic platoons

2009-11-20T12:49:00.000-08:00

Here some pictures of my German Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, on the pics you can see the Kompanie HQ standing in the back, with their mortar and schreck teams.

on the left and the right of them are my German Objective Markers

in front of them are A Platoon and B Platoon of my Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, both full platoons consisting of 10 stands with a panzerfaust upgrade.

Here some pictures of my German Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, on the pics you can see the Kompanie HQ standing in the back, with their mortar and schreck teams.

on the left and the right of them are my German Objective Markers

in front of them are A Platoon and B Platoon of my Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, both full platoons consisting of 10 stands with a panzerfaust upgrade.

British Armoured Recce, the basic platoons

2009-11-20T12:28:00.001-08:00

Here some pictures of the basic platoons for my Armoured Recce Squadron together.

in the back you see the two HQ Cromwells, on their left are the three Cromwells of A Platoon, on their right are the three Cromwells of B Platoon, and in the front the four Stuart V's of the Recce Platoon....

British Armoured Recce, Stuart V Recce Platoon

2009-11-20T12:19:00.000-08:00

And here are the tiny monsters of my British Armoured Recce Squadron!

It nothing less than a Stuart V Recce Platoon, constisting of four Stuart V tanks.

As you will see they bear the same Divisional markings but have different regimental ones, they have a crooked white square which means that they are a detachment from the regimental HQ.

from the front to the back you'll see " Lili marlene, Long john silver, Lewis, and Lancer " the four Stuart V tanks of my Recce Platoon for my Armoured Recce Squadron.

British Armoured Recce, Cromwell B Platoon

2009-11-20T12:12:00.000-08:00

And here some pictures of B Platoon of my British Armoured Recce Squadron

not much to be said.... except...

from left to right " Cobra, Cougar, Cheetah " the three Cromwells of B Platoon

British Armoured Recce, Cromwell A Platoon

2009-11-20T12:01:00.000-08:00

And of course the rest of my British Armoured Recce Squadron consists of more Cromwells.

This is one of my platoons of Cromwells, it consists of 3 Cromwell tanks to have a Challenger tank added later on.... ;)

from left to right "Sheepdog, Spokesman, and Sable" the three Cromwell tanks of A platoon.

Here also their divisional and regimental markings can be seen...

British Armoured Recce, Company HQ

2009-11-20T11:39:00.000-08:00

Here some pictures of my HQ cromwells for my British Armoured Recce which i finished painting alomst a year ago.

It represents "B Squadron 15 /19 King's Royal Hussars" this is an Armoured Recce Regiment from the 11th Armoured Division "The Black Bulls"

All the cromwells of the Amoured Recce Company have their own names, they can be seen in white on the turrets. names of tanks from the same platoon start with the same letter...

Now Hells Highway is out i have to order me some Challengers for some real punch with this company and to finally be able to take platoons consisting of four tanks ;)

This is "Eaglet", tank of the 2nd in Command

This is "Eagle", tank of the Company Commander

Here you can see both of them together, you can also see the divisional symbol (the raging black bull) and divisional number (45 on a green/blue background).

Here you can see their regimental markings ( white squares) on their turrets, white stands for recce unit and the square stands for B squadron...

It's about time i'd present some of my British army

2009-11-20T11:34:00.000-08:00

Hi to all,

before i finished all the German platoons you have seen on this blog i have been busy painting a British armoured recce and rifle company.

i'll try to bring this blog a soon as possible up to date. I just have to take some time to take some nice pictures of my completed platoons and models.

Greetz Thijs

Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie HQ

2009-09-22T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here some pictures of my recently completed Fallschirmjaeger HQ with panzerschreck team.

Company commander

2nd in command

Panzerschreck team

Tiger 1E Platoon

2009-09-22T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here some pictures of my recently completed Tiger tanks. I am very content with how the camoscheme worked out on the tanks, it matches with the camo of the stugs.

The platoon commander's Tiger "111"

The other Tiger "112"

Both togheter

Panther Company HQ

2009-08-17T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here some pictures of my recently completed Panther Company HQ, it consists of 2 Panther tanks, one for the company commander (200), and one for the second in command (201).

Nebelwerfer platoon

2009-08-17T12:29:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures of my recently completed Nebelwerfer platoon, it consists of a platoon command team, an observer team and 3 nebelwerfer rocketlaunchers.

i've ordered another blister of Nebelwerfers to make a full platoon of 6 Nebelwerfers.

the transports i'll add in the future.

Dutch Countryside Terrainboard

2009-08-17T11:38:00.001-07:00

Here some pics of the "Dutch countryside terrainboard" i'm making for the coming Hells Highway and Marketgarden settings.The board is 1,2 x1,6 mtrs just a bit shorter than an average board size. it consists of 6 pieces of 400 x 800 mm which are modular.

i've the intention of making some more bases for woods to put trees on and i have a Dutch farm which i have to finish the base of will post some pics of it in the future.

the hedgerows are modular in sections of 100 and 200 mm long and 30 mm wide for a totall of 5,2 mtrs, i want to add some trees to the sections later on.

some of the hedgerows have fences in them for acces.

the grainfields are cut so that they mostly have edges of 19 or 28 cm to match with the hedgerows.

the windmill is a pola HO scale building kit which is a bit small for a HO scale building, so perfect for Flames of War. the roof is detachable so infantry can be put inside (observers).

enjoy,

Thijs

Panther Tank Houffalize ( Ardennes)

2009-08-10T04:38:00.000-07:00

I went to the Belgian Ardennes for a few days and in the village where we stayed there was a Panther tank on the village square. i took some pics of it, it belonged to the 116th panzerdivision "windhund". The name of the tank was " Tebbe"

Panzerspah patrol

2009-07-12T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here two pictures of my recently completed Panzerspah patrol,

I use them along my Panzers as recce troops.

Panther Platoon

2009-07-12T12:28:00.000-07:00

I finished them today and i must say they worked out pretty well.

I will use them along my StuG's for now untill their Company HQ is done,

and I will add a fourth Panther to the Platoon aswell. on the second panther

you can vaguely see a white metall bucket with a white emaille coating and blue rim,

they nicked it from a farm they passed by...

Here some more pictures of my now fully completed Panther platoon. i've added a fouth Panther to it and did some more weathering. i only need to make some foilage camo to put on the tanks...

Fallschirmjaeger Platoon

2009-07-12T12:19:00.000-07:00

Here some pictures of my recently completed Fallschirmjaeger Platoon.

The next thing for the jaeger is their Company HQ with shreck team and a second platoon and the base for my Fallschirmjaeger Company will be finished.

For now i can use this platoon for support in my Panzer Company.

Camouflage test

2009-06-13T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here a picture of te first test with some foilage camo.

it;s made of branches of a tree kit from Busch, then i dipped them in a brownish wash and put some green flock on top.

the foilage isn't glued to the StuH, i will put it back on when it falls off or make some new ones if it breakes.

Stugs work in progress almost finished

2009-06-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Here a picture of 2 StuG III models for my Panzer Company HQ.
They are almost finished, i only need to put some decals on them and some anti shine coating and finally i want to add some foilage to camouflage them.
The decals are ordered and i'm going to do some tests for how to make a good looking but wargame durable foilage to put on the tanks.

Here another pic of my HQ stugs, on this pic u have a better view of the commanders.

Here a picture of one of my StuG III Combat platoons. They also need some decals,a layer of anti shine coating and some foilage for camouflage.

Here a picture of the StuG's that i finished so far, on the background on the rulebook u can see part of my StuH platoon that is now also finished. I need to take some pics of those.