With my desert Panzers slowly coming to an end, next up was to get some of the ancillary models painted. I’ve always loved armoured cars, since I had a little Matchbox toy of a Daimler Dingo as a child, and I’ve also always liked the interesting angular shapes of German armoured cars and half-tracks. I probably thought that these unusual designs from the 1930’s and 40s looked futuristic back then. 🙂
The current incanation of the DAK force list in Flames allows for either one or two units of 2x 231 Scout Cars. With 2021 supply issues, I was unable to find any DAK-specific boxed sets, but I did find a Late-War SS box, so those got painted for the different force in a different theatre. The only difference I can seem to see is that some of the models often painted in desert colours have additional front and/or rear armour. The PSC kit has these as optional extras, but I’ve been unable to get hold of that box, so maybe in the future for a different force.
I actually prepped and sprayed these months and months ago, but had to wait on my decal order from Skytrex for German Number plates (highly recommended, by the way – their 2-colour decals are actually lined up properly, unlike both Battlefront and PSC who both use the same print house). I also clipped their wonky, bendy, unstable main guns and replaced them with straight wire from a paperclip. I may have lost a tiny bit of gun detail, but I’ll take that in the trade-off of not having them look like limp noodles!
These models were all painted in the same manner as my previous Panzers, with a little of the milliput stowage added here and there to make the models a little more distinct. No unit numbers or designations, but I added an additional Balkenkruz to the upper hull of two of them to designate the unit leaders.
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Excellent – these are really cool mate!!
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Thank you, Alex! 🙂
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These look really nice! 🙂 You’re putting mt to shame as I have only one of the PSC 1:72 models and I haven’t even built it yet!
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Haha thank you John – maybe now is the time? 😉
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Great work on your armoured cars mate, think you made the perfect call on the gun barrels, and the transfers look spot on (not that they look like transfers)
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Cheers Dave, They were wonky as all hell, so I had to figure out a solution and luckily for me, the smaller paper clips I had around were close enough to the perfect size to replace the originals. The transfers took forever with how many of them there are using the gloss, transfer, gloss, satin method – tedious and slow (due to drying time) but it does work well at least! 🙂
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Lovely work- shame recce is so hard to game in a tabletop setting.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Yeah, in gameplay they’re more like flank and infantry harassment than actually recon troops. Still, they should be fun on the table. 🙂
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Very nice – and you’re right, there is something futuristic about the design of those vehicles.
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Thanks Wudu!
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Love the paintjobs, as ever. I’m glad you like the Skytrex stuff, I’ve been holding off on a small order from them for a bit, but if they’ve impressed you I’ll go ahead!
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Yeah, their decals turned out to be really good quality!
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They always look like they should have an impact on the battlefield…and then they don’t…though they are good for chasing infantry.
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I don’t play tournaments or competitively, so aesthetics/rule of cool is enough to justify them on my tabletop! 😀
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You weren’t kidding about having a bunch more tanks nearly ready! These look great and I agree that the design of them is pretty futuristic and cool-looking as well.
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In that case, you’ll love the rest of the stuff I’ve got queued for the end of January! 😀
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Nicely done, great weathering. Ususally WWII is not my cup of tea, but I like the unit.
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Thank you. The 15mm WWII stuff has been great in terms of weathering and chipping practise, so when I get to doing things like weathered Imp Guard and AdMech vehicles, etc, I should have levelled up a few times, hopefully! 😉
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