After painting a reasonable few Panzer IIIs and IVs late last year, I was satisfied with having added some armoured punch to my infantry-based Afrika Korps force. At that point I decided I needed an OpFor for local gaming, and so started painting British 8th Army tanks in turn. Seeing how many of those I got done made me realise I needed to shore up the DAK to be roughly the same, so it was time to add a few more models.
First thing, then, was to add some Panzer III “specials” which will have the option of adding to the existing Zugs, creating a new Zug and also provide escort options for the pair of Tiger Is. I went for these since they can pass for non-uparmoured PzIIIF/Gs with the standard long 5cm guns in a pinch, and also since there were simply more of the J/Ls in action during the period I’ll be playing in. Plus, they have to go up against all those Lees/Grants/Shermans on the Allied side!
I also didn’t have any Ausf.N at all previously, so I decided to add a single Zug of three models to reprsent these and give some options and variety on the tabletop – again, especially in light of the wide variety of Allied armour I’ll be able to run opposite…
These models were all painted in the same manner as my previous Panzers, though these feature milliput stowage mixed in with the plastic parts that I’m both proud of and completely aware that can’t really be seen or noticed 😀
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Great work! I think the stowage is perhaps one of those things you notice if it’s NOT there (ie it looks wrong because the tanks are too uniform…).
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Thanks mate. I see it as a very subtle thing that unconsciously makes things look more real/natural – like variation in bricks.
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Excellent looking Panzers! You have a really good recipe for Afrika Korps/Panzerarmee Afrika models. Should be an excellent match for any pesky Brits or Americans you face!
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Thank you! I wanted them to look a little darker at the base compared to the British base colour I’m using so even people not familiar with the different tanks and vehicles can tell the two forces apart at a glance.
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These look great, and must give you a large force to field on the tabletop. So much armor, so much sand…haha.
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…and there’s more to come as well! One more set of tanks as well as the lighter stuff. 🙂
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Looking great and you now have a very sizeable force.
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Thanks! I’m looking forward to getting to the point of playing some large games with most of these forces pitted against each other. 🙂
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Great work on your tanks mate, you have a very impressive force for both sides now.
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Cheers Dave. I’ve got a few more sets of German stuff that I’ve got to get ready to post, and then after that there’s the Valentines and German AA halftracks still to paint…
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Brill, and doesn’t matter if the extra detail gets noticed or not mate – you know it’s there… I’m the same – extra effort that largely goes unnoticed… I find that the it goes both ways, so all those tiny imperfections stick in the memory too 😂
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Ha! I know that all so well! Cheers, Alex!
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Nicely done, and a good size force! 🙂
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Thanks John. I’ll get some group photos done once the weather gets a bit cooler in a month or two. It’s getting a bit too hot out there in the shed to do much lately, and Late Feb/Early March is when it gets hottest here…
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Nice work on these tanks, mate! Impressive results done quick 🙂
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Thanks mate! Plenty more where they came from. 😀
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I’ll be waiting at the edge of my seat for more 😉 😀
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Those look fantastic.
The PzIII really was the German workhorse throught the first 2/3 of the war but often gets overlooked for the ‘bigger cats’….
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete! I’ve got more Panzers to show shortly, though we’ve got a bit of a break from the IIIs now (for awhile at least!) – but yeah, I’ve got enough of them to reasonably represent their role! 🙂
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Another great group of German armor, hope more to come!
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Two more DAK posts from January’s production are queued up (well, I still have to write the text for one of them) – I’ve got a few more Lend-Lease models that are next in line for painting in Feb. Then probably something else vaguely February-themed if I have time! 😉
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