Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[Hertsblue]

Looks good...How long did it take?...What was the Germans main objective as the river being uncrossable must have made it difficult

Make that "practically impossible".

[fred.]

Looks good...How long did it take?...What was the Germans main objective as the river being uncrossable must have made it difficult

There was a bridge!!!  The German objective was just to get a single un-suppressed stand over the river.  The game took only about 2hrs with lots of rule checking, and general not knowing what we we're doing at the start.

[fred.]

Interesting game, Fred. What was the status of the river? i.e. was it deep, shallow, raging torrent, mere trickle? Makes a terrific difference to the scenario. 

Reading the replies backwards.  The river was impassable - perhaps a steep sided canal.

For a more general game then allowing the German's some bridging capability would be reasonable. But I think this is meant to represent an advance guard trying to force a quick crossing.

[Fenton]

There was a bridge!!! 

I did presume there was, I just meant must have been hard for the Germans knowing that would they would have enter a a a nasty field of fire to get across it

[petercooman]

I did presume there was, I just meant must have been hard for the Germans knowing that would they would have enter a a a nasty field of fire to get across it

They could have "silly walked" their way through it if they really wanted

[fred.]

Been a bit of a gap in posting - real life has been in the way a bit.

But some painting has been progressing - my WWI Germans for GWSH are progressing well, with 2 regiments of infantry done, along with the artillery,  and most of the cavalry.

There is another regiment of infantry to go, and I'm sure a few other bits and pieces (and as can be seen from these photos the labels on the bases need redoing).

[fred.]

1st Infantry Regiment


2nd Infantry Regiment


Stosstruppen


Flammenwerfer


Pioneers

[fred.]

Cavalry squadron - really just decorative at this stage of the war!


Divisional Artillery
77mm at the front, 105s (in grey), then at the back left 150mm (in spotty cammo) and back right 21cm Morsers


1st regiment of 77mm guns - in an mid war scheme with blue


2nd regiment of 77mm guns - in more typical three colour cammo

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice Fred!

[Steve J]

Great work there Fred . I really like the camo on the guns .

[Techno]

I'm with Will and Steve.
Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Great work Fred 

Cavalry squadron - really just decorative at this stage of the war!

And yours are extremely decorative 

As you mention redoing the labels a few thoughts. I tend to avoid using white backgrounds for labels as it stands out too much. For SH in 6mm I use dark grey for Germans and dark green for Russians, both with white text (yellow for HQs). I also use a coloured square to identify battalions.

[Hertsblue]

Cavalry squadron - really just decorative at this stage of the war!

Not necessarily. The German cavalry was trained in the later war as assault troops - the theory being that if they encountered the enemy on the line of march they would dismount and clear the way. When the High Seas Fleet mutinied in 1918 it was the Guard Cuirassiers who stormed their barracks and restored order. 

[fred.]

Thanks chaps. I have enjoyed painting these, just the right mix of simple grey overall with enough detailing to look good, without going bonkers.  The guns are good, but  the black lining on the 3 colour ones with the small blocks is tedious, even done with a pen.

Not sure what scheme to paint the 21cm morsers in yet?

Labelling: I had tried a bunch of colours to see which worked. I was going for a colour per regiment, but perhaps a colour per side, with a block for  each regiment would look a bit more unified.

Cavalry - does this mean I need to get some dismounted figures as well?

[Hertsblue]

Labelling: I had tried a bunch of colours to see which worked. I was going for a colour per regiment, but perhaps a colour per side, with a block for  each regiment would look a bit more unified.

Cavalry - does this mean I need to get some dismounted figures as well?

Labelling: It's what I've gone for lately - shows up really well.

Cavalry: 'Fraid so. The Guard Cuirassiers had their own artillery too.