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August 2021 – Personal Painting Round-Up

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Plastic Soldier Company Battlefront 15mm Panzer III IV Tiger Company - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War 1/100 1:100

Here’s my belated painting round-up for August. Sure, it’s the last day of October, but you get what you pay for here at the Bitz Box. As you can easily see here, everything I painted in August was either a vehicle or terrain, and so it all counts (due to a generous challenge runner) towards Dave’s Season of Scenery challenge. I’ll have another round-up for Dave’s challenge tomorrow or the day after (I need to edit the photos and do all the typing, and it’s getting late).

Plastic Soldier Company Battlefront 15mm Panzer III IV Tiger Company - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War 1/100 1:100

These models represent the second major chunk of my Afrika Korps force, (as well as a couple of late-war models). Looking at things now, in Oct/Nov I see three more major(ish) updates for the DAK. Another chunk of armoured vehicles – though not as many as seen here – composing the scout section and a few more tanks to shore up these platoons, then some artillery/field guns/PAKs as well as a few more infantry to round things out to the current FoW rules, and then stuff that’s not readily available – which will be really when I get them and paint them, though I am keen to finish this force and add the full stop at the end of it, rather than leaving it to be an open-ended prospect as we wargamers so often do. I guess I’ll also decide whether to paint all those halftracks that I picked up when I was looking at an earlier Panzergrenadier list, so possibly four major updates before completion then. But in the meantime, I’ve switched projects slightly, so no more Germans for a little while…

All up, I painted 30 complete models, plus the two extra upper hulls/turrets of the Jagdpanthers/Panthers, so I’ll call them worth 1/2 each for a total of 31 for the time being. Due to all of those tiny 15mm infantry, I had 324 models painted at the end of July. Adding these August models in takes me to 355 for the year to date (as of Aug 31st, anyway!)

Next post, Dave’s Round-Up, and then onto September’s models I promise I’ll catch up to October’s models quickly!

July 2021 – Personal Painting Round-Up

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Here’s a post! It’s the July Round-Up. In September. I’m still doing hobby stuff and reading blogs when I get a chance. I’ve just been beaten down by work and a laundry list of life things, all made worse by Delta, incompetent (Scotty) and irresponsible (Gladys) politicians and the subsequent three months of lockdown we’ve had here as a result. So not much energy recently for posting, responding, or even doing much reading of blogs. Sorry!

Anyway, I can’t promise that I’ll be posting with regularity for the time being, but here’s the next one in the queue. I even took these photos on the first of August, but they’ve been sitting on my phone for that long.

In terms of figures, July obviously gets a high batting number due to all of the individual 15mm Afrika Korps Grenadiers on those multibases. It’s the old “does a cavalry model count as one figure, or two?” discussion, really. Since none of it makes a difference to anyone else in the world, I’m going with what works for (and more importantly, motivates) me. Which is especially important when painting nightmarish little 15mm infantry en masse. So that’s counting each indiviually painted Grenadier on foot, but not counting the extra Sherman turrets as *anything* and the individual vehicle crew as part of the vehicles, including the sidecar. So 127 models for July.

Add those to the 197 models I’d completed at the end of June, and we have 324 models at the end of July. I did okay in August as well, though not nearly as extreme as July. I still need to take those photos.