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**General_Crippler**

I have now completed the Pak40, Command Team and the 1st obs team for the panzerwerfer 42 battery, pictures to follow shortly. So that only leaves me with the second obs team to complete ;-)

Also arriving this week should be the SU100 tank killers, so will get these done asap. Although I have heard talk that the ROF 1 has killed these off a bit, but hey they have a massive gun!!!

**General_Crippler**

Here are the pictures as promised

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Just waiting now on the last obs team and then the plates from Doms decals!!

Also the SU100 platoon arrived yesterday and they have been built and basecoated, ready for camo airbrush today ;-)

**legoburner**

Nice, what camo are you doing to them? Brown blobs/strips as per that one soviet style or something more interesting?

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Also, SU100 tanks have a nice walkthrough video here now: http://www.youtube.com/user/flamesofwar

**General_Crippler**

The two colour as normal, soviet green base and then 983 Flat Earth, here they are just been airbrushed

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Finished off three more T34/85

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All of the current 8

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Also knocked out another two BA-10's

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The platoon to date

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Lego thanks for that guide, I have decieded to give the german grey for tracks ago and see what that comes out like.

**kenshin620**

Egad that was a lot of pics to scroll through. All look pretty great, I would lose my patience over all those models if I needed to paint them!

**General_Crippler**

Lol, that is the trouble with the soviets, they are a swarm army, although the other armies can get quite large if you have a lot of different options.

Ok, SU100 have now had base colours done

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Just been shaded

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For any tanks that have camo, I use the army painter soft tone, for the basic soviet green, I use the strong tone and then drybrush after it has dried. With the soft tone, there is no need to do this.

**General_Crippler**

Finished four of the five SU-100 Tank Hunters

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**legoburner**

Looking good, I wasnt sure about the quality of german grey for the tracks in the first few photos, but after weathering it looks good.

**kaiservonhugal**

Awesome work!! Looks like you have a solid fast way to get the painting done I like it.

All those tanks look great! Thanks for posting all those pics.

**iheartlargeblasttemplates**

This was awesome to look at soo much tanks!! ITS AWESOME! great work.

**General_Crippler**

No me either lego, but I did drybrush them boltgun metal as well, so come out ok. I don't think there would have been a lot of difference if you had started with black.

No worries, my pleasure to share, the soviets are pretty easy to do.

Here are the steps

1. Undercoat soviet green using flames of war spray
2. Paint tracks boltgun metal
3. Shade using the army painter strong tone
4. Dry brush flames of war 894 Russian Green
5 . Drybrush graveyard earth
6. Matt Vanish vallejo spray

Thanks again for the grat comments, it really helps to keep me motivated.

Under the brush this week, will be a Wespe platoon and the rest of the tiger 1 ZUG.

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Finished the last obs team so here is the completed platoon

**General_Crippler**

Here is the wespe battery first camo color

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Second camo color

**General_Crippler**

Now completed 1 of the wespes, radio truck, Panzer III obs tank, 2 more T34/85's and a soviet armoured car.

**legoburner**

Today was the first day that the weather was good enough to get any priming done here, so you are lucky having so much primed from before the weather went bad. Look forward to seeing more.

Also, any chance of some combined army photos - everything german and everything soviet you've done?

**General_Crippler**

Will see what I can do, as it takes a while to get all the stuff out, maybe can get some more army pictures when I have finished these next batch.

Should have some more pictures today or tomorrow of the completed items

**General_Crippler**

Completed another 2 T34/85's

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The ten completed so far

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Another soviet Armoured Car done

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The SU100 are done and with there cousins the SU-85's

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Wespe battery radio truck, with out the radio mast on top, as I think it looks to chunky

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Doms decals arrived at last

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Wespe battery completed so far, Panzer III obs tank, radio truck and one wespe

**legoburner**

Someone's had a productive week! Good stuff, thanks for the group photos so far. T34s look especially good with some nice weathering. Did you do the damage to the side of the one or was it like that when you got it? Looks good as war damage either way.

**General_Crippler**

No worries and thanks.

The T34's where damaged when trying to glue the tracks on or have been damaged through use and transport. I used to leave them as they where, but I have now started painting the damage and weathering it to IMHO to look like great battle damage.

I also just noticed that I need to purchase another 7 T-34/85 as I only have 13!!!!!

Also today I nearly completed another two wespes and 2 Tigers ;-) Oh and started on another two soviet armoured cars

**iheartlargeblasttemplates**

great work

**General_Crippler**

Two soviet armoured cars have been basecoated and shaded ;-)

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The first Wespe battery has now been completed

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3 Tigers have now been completed

**General_Crippler**

Should have completed two more of the soviet armoured cars and made a good start on 4 Soviet Katyushas

**General_Crippler**

Completed two more of the soviet roller skates, onlty two more to go ;-)

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8 of 10

**legoburner**

Not sure how I missed them last time, but those tigers are looking really nice now!

**General_Crippler**

Thanks, I guess the camo was just to good ;-)

**General_Crippler**

At last I have completed the last two soviet armoured cars

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Finished the first Soviet rocket launcher

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Another three T34/85 are completed

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All 13 to date

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The wespe battery commander and staff car

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The second wespe obs tank

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Made a school boy error with the last tiger, was just about to matt varnish it when I picked up soviet green spray by mistake, so that one is going to my five year old!!!! Doh!!!

**legoburner**

ouch bad luck on the tiger. Are the Katyushas as much of a pain to assemble as I've always presumed. Are you going to do infantry for them too?

**General_Crippler**

There where the original Katyushas and yes they where a complete nightmare to build, tiny metal components and super glue are not your best friend!!!!

The newer Katyushas are alot easier to build, the ones in the box set.

Yes there are some crew for these that will follow shortly;-)

The rest of the T34/85's arrived yesterday, so will finsih off that list as well and do another Tiger in the same batch!!!

**legoburner**

How do the box set ones differ? Do they have individual rails to glue together or is it all one component? I thought that they were the same as the blister ones so have held off getting any for fear of having to assemble 8 of the evil things but if they are easier in the box set that makes them very tempting!

**General_Crippler**

I will have a look and put some pictures up for you mate

**legoburner**

Great thanks, look forward to seeing. I checked out a box of them today at hobbycraft but there was no diagram on the back that I could see to give me any hint of the construction of the boxed versions.