Some Hedges, WW2 airborne and dip shade

I got some great looking Hedges from Terra Firma, so I thought they would fit well as background for some Boltaction US airborne that I tried out the armypainter dip shade.
I first tried the strong tone, but I found it to dark but still got some good resaults by wiping most of it off with some papper, the others I used the soft tone, it worked alot better, only had to dip once then shake it of, no need to wipe it of. I'm sure I could get better looking figs by highlighting and shading the old fashon way with inks, but I havn't gotten the hang of it yet.

Second part, with two close up

This is a close up of the 5th Maryland Regiment, as even a line regiment on the american side should realy never be uniform all the way though I've added a single soldier in hunting shirt.




















And here's the First Mayland regiment, again not to make it look to completly uniform I added a guy in civilian closes, this time in shirt sleves, as it's a southern battle, it seemed right.
But not having been in N-Carolina in March I can't say how warm it would be

Perry AWI

I've started on my big project now, The battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Both the American and Britsh Armies aswell as the Battlefield.
And here are the first pics.


A Unit that will be become the 5th Maryland Coninental Regiment

Here they are joined by the 1st Mayland Regiment

Ready to recive them is the 23rd Regiment of foot, AKA the Royal Welch Fusiliers and a 3pdr butterfly gun

Same pic with Photoshoping

More pics to come, later today

A little Story

A rilfe squad from the 82nd moves agaisnt a small Italian village
The new NCO moves to far ahead and gets a sniper bullet to the head
The squad moves to rescue him, when a mg opens up on them
Two more airborne fall They pull back with the wounded to regroup
They put down some mg fire
While another squad tries a flanking manouver

I the meantime a bazooka unit takes out the halftrack before it can move and do damige

The flanking unit is on the other side side ready to charge

Sergeant Jonny and Corporal Hank takes out a german

The Sarge throughs a Grenade at the German Mg

Just as another squad charges up the main road the grenade goes off, taking both the mg and the sniper in the window with it.

Corporal Hank takes out two more germans

They take the town, but is that all of it?

1st Divsion at Salamanca Finished

Fermor's Brigade

1st Coldsteam Guards
1/3rd Guards

Wheatley's Brigade

24th Warwickshire
42nd Highlanders

58th Rutlandshire

79th Highlanders

Lowe's Brigade

1st KGL
2nd KGL
5th KGL

It has taken me 5 months to do but CAMBELL -1st Division at Salamanca is finished.

the reason it took so long was that I bought stuff half assed, at the start I had no ide were I was going with the stuff, so most of those 5 months were just spent waiting for figs to come.

I'm now waiting for money so I kan buy a french divsion to fight against the redcoats.

Evolution of Bases

This is Kinda a replay of some of the other post, but I just wanted to show how my bases have evolved

This is my very first base, all 24 on the same shoebox cardboard.

When I read my rules I said that you should base you soldiers on company size bases everywere from 3 to 8 pr. company. As I do brits the ended up on 4 man pr. base, this is ofcourse still just a shoebox thing.

Here I finnaly got some real bases, they are for flames of war but that was all the store had. they look better then cardboard but they do look somewhat naked.

Oh look, they got grass, my most basic "finished" bases. just glue and grass, they are very simple compeard to my later ones.

I got some sand from gamesworkshop, the sand is kinda to big for 15mm but that's what I got. I did give some grass here and here.

And this is what my bases look like now. I can't take any credit for this, as this is a standard way of making bases. The recipe is litko bases, GW sand, painted with brown, then drybrushed with light brown and finaly glued some grass on them.

They are by noe means art but look quite more professional then cardboard.

More 28 AWI and improved bases

I got some Battle honours 28mm that I orderd before I knew I as going to buy my entire army from the perry's, but you cant leave unpainted figs around so I started to paint them.

They aren't that diffrent from the foundy figs, there hands and muskets are realy good, but the legs and arms are about thick, and the coat isn't as easy to paint.

Here they redcoats give the militia a close range volley, sending them for the hills.












I also finaly got some 15mm highlanders that will make it possible to finish they 1st British Division at Salamanca. But I do wonder whats it going to be like to go back and paint 15mm after i've painted 28mm