Category Archives: British 8th Army

November 2021 – Personal Painting Round-Up

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Today we have November’s monthly Round-Up. If the fact that it’s being posted a week out from Christmas seems odd, then you must be new here.

Again, my main focus has been on my 15mm World War Two stuff, though with some repainted and tarted-up terrain pieces added to the usual collection of armoured vehicles. I even finished a couple of bearded & moustachioed 28mm fantasy models for Roger’s Mo’Vember painting challenge. I did work on several other models for the challenge, but we won’t talk about them here as they failed to make it…

Tally Time! 35 models completed in November, so I hit my monthly target. Add those to the 403 I’d painted up until the end of October and I’m at 438 for 2021 and counting.

Looking at what I’ve finished in December so far, it’s pretty safe to say I won’t be cracking the 500 mark for the year, but I think it should be safe that I achieve more than 450…

Battlefront 15mm U.S. Army Lees in British Service – 8th Army 17th/21st Lancers “Death or Glory” Squadron HQ for Flames of War

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Battlefront 15mm U.S. Army Lees in British Service - 8th Army 17th/21st Lancers "Death or Glory" Squadron HQ for Flames of War, 1:100, 1/100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

This trio represents an interesting little anomaly that I founded listed in the FoW Armoured Fist sourcebook. I’ll quote part of the text here “When the US troops retreated from Tebourba, they left several tanks mired in the winter mud. The 6th Armoured Division recovered several of the big M3 Lee tanks and Major ffrench-Blake’s C Squadron used them in their HQ…” This seemed like a cool and characterful little addition to my 8th Army, and so I decided to add them in – it also gave me an opportunity to test another paint scheme/technique/palette/variation for painting US armour.

Battlefront 15mm U.S. Army Lees in British Service - 8th Army 17th/21st Lancers "Death or Glory" Squadron HQ for Flames of War, 1:100, 1/100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

As you can see, I decided to keep all of the U.S. markings on these, and simply added the approprate British markings to their hulls. This unit is one of the HQ options for running 6th Armoured Division “Mailed Fist” as part of an 8th Army force, so I guess I’m now going to have to paint the rest of them…