League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

I have to do something different. So i started with a German Africa Korps-List for the ruleset Operation Squad. The advantage for me, you don't need much miniatures. With 10 to 12 Figures you can play a really nice game.

First i painted a testfigure to find out, which colors and paints are suitable for painting Uniforms for the Afrikakorps. At the end of the Test-Mini i had a List of paints which i would use for the further paintings.



Here is the result of the first testmini.



More pics of the Mini and what paints and pigments i used you can find on the blog.

In the meantime i could finish two further grenadiers - Hans and Guenther.



For these two guys i used other Colors from my painting-sheet for the trousers and the jackets. I like the results of the difference colors. For the equipments i use always the same colors to simulate the uniformity of the unit.

here are much more pics from the two soldiers.

Test swatches of your paint colours, their shadows and highlights are an excellent way to go, Raif. I made my 'test swatches' by painting over the top of the black gesso undercoat I normally use to start my figures, to be sure I was getting a good 'match' with the final results expected.

The next Grenadier - Horst - is painted. This time he is the MG-34 light machine gunner.




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The next grenadier is Johannes, the gunner assistant.



For his trousers i used with Foundry Drab a new color.

More pics of Johannes you will find on my Blog.

In the last days i worked on the bases for Johannes, Horst, Hans und Günther. What i learned is, that i need more time to study how to work with pigments. ;D



More pics of the single bases are - as always - on my blog.

I like my base
Btw., the rest of the bunch are well done too

Grüße
Günter

Now my operation squad group have a Corporal.



For this guy i have no name yet. So if you have a idea about his name, let me a comment on my blow or here.

Here is the Link to the blog-entry with more pics of the figure.

He looks like a 'Sven' to me.

Otto - a Veteran Grenadier joined my DAK-Troup.


For this Figure i used new color-combinations. Fortunately they works fine.

More Pics from Otto are on the Blog.

So, it's time for the first weathering steps - i ever did. i never before works with ak interactive enamel tools. but it's really funny to handle white spirit and oil washes and others.

at this stage i used dak filter and dak wash from ak interactive and the look of the opel blitz changed dramatically.



More pics of the truck you can see on my blog.

Thanks god, in the last days the temperatures drops in the attic. So finally i could use my paintdesk again. I could finish two miniatures - Karl-Gustav - the seargent of my troup and Georg a further grenadier.




btw. for the photos of the two boys i used the first time a own photobackground. I guess it was a step forward to achieve a better photoquality.


More Pictures - with the new background - you can find on my blog.

Here comes Gerhard - the sniper of my Operation Squad Team. For the next time it will be the last WWII-Figure i will paint. It's time to paint more Dark Age Figures for my SAGA-Armies



As i was not able to find a adequate miniature for a DAK Sniper i choose this plastic miniature from the perry DAK-Box. I hope you like Gerhard.

More pics of Gerhard you will find on the blog.

The Squad is already finished! Hurra!!!!



In the last days i tried several times what will be the best way to fix the pigments on the bases.

The final results and my conclusio with a further picture of the last bases you can find and read on the blog.

Lovely looking unit.
Cheers
Dave

obriendavid wrote:Lovely looking unit.
Cheers
Dave

Thank you!!!