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looking great lego
What next on your shopping list?

Thanks. Next on the list are 2 M10C tank destroyers with 17 pdr guns. That wont be for a while though, hopefully I'll be able to get them done in late October or early November.

Looks really great keep it up I would love to see more pics.

Great work.
I have just purchased the start of a FOW army and your blog has inspired me to start working on them.
Thanks for the inspiration and some ideas on how to base them.

Im not that good a painter so my work will not look stellar like yours though.


(My army is American Late War based on Operation Cobra handbook. )

Nice job!

wow these are awesome keep it up always nice to see some flames of war

Thanks again everyone. Also, anyone who has been inspired to pick up flames of war, PLEASE post your progress on the forums here too so that we can keep the ball rolling and encourage even more people to start playing

They say Imitation is the highest form of compliment.

While my work may be but a pale imitation of the master I wish to thank you for the inspiration to actually try to paint my first FOW force.


I started my own blog as well.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/255696.page


I hope you dont mind if I copy a few of your techniques as I really dont know what I am doing yet.

Time for a small update. I've completed two M10Cs, pushing me ever closer to completion - 1750 points of Irish Guard using the list from Hell's Highway.

Here are some pics of the new anti-tank vehicles:






And a rather crappy photo of the army so far (need more light for my photos!)


And finally, the last things I am working on. I was going to fill out the army with some stuarts, but I thought since I am making a British force, I would use more British vehicles, so I chose some daimler armoured cars and a dingo, and three universal carriers. Hoping to have these finished before mid december when I'm off on holiday:

That pic with all the different scales and coins is hilarious!

Its like, so convenient its unbelievable lol.

Those recent pic's of the infantry are class! Really nice! How'd you get the grass to clump like that? Is it static grass tweezered in, or did you buy the clumps?


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ok, completely missed the fact that there was 3 pages there!

lol

Question answered!

Love your work - brilliant!

Youve got grunts to hold your home field OBJ, Tanks to assault and the Fireflies help with AT, Air support for Big Cats and Daimlers for pinning enemy infantry. SOLID.

The M10s look great, and the army is looking coherent too. It's nice to see projects coming to goal.

Thanks everyone. I've tried very hard to make a balanced list with these guys. I'm still a bit torn between FE brits and HH brits, as if I go FE I can add artillery and keep all the AA MGs on the tanks (for some reason HH only allows 1 per platoon).

Since they are painted up as Irish Guard though and the only official Irish Guard list is HH, they'll probably stay that way and I wont add to it for now. I've got an SS German army in the planning stage centred around 2 sturmtigers as I really love the models so I want to get started on that after this.

Wow I cant believe I have never seen Flames Of War stuff before. A while ago I did intend to write my own WW2 rules to play with some friends, but from what I can see the FoW rules are fairly decent and the modesl look fantastic as well. Your painted models obviously making it look even more tempting.

Gonna have to get some of my frinds to check out your post to see if it can help me talk them into starting it...

Well after a year I have finally complete 1750 points of British late war armoured troops.. woohoo!

First off, the armoured car platoon:


Next, the universal carrier platoon (I have not painted the other options for this platoon - for the Irish Guards, you can swap this platoon out for a couple of different options at the start of a game. I just wanted the fast recce so have not done the mortars or anti tank options).



And now, finally, the full army in all it's glory. Eagle eyed readers will noticed I had to remove a lot of the MGs from the Shermans to make them valid as Irish Guards (only 1 MG per platoon instead of the original Fortress Europe list which is 1 per tank).




So what is the next project? I could not resist the look of the Sturmtigers when they came out, so Eastern Front Waffen-SS is the next project. I am painting these up as the factory fresh test vehicles that they were at that time, so no camo on the two of them. I already have some Panzer IV H tanks and the SS company box set so I will be working on them very very slowly over the coming year. I'll start a new project log when I finish the sturmtigers, but for now, some very early WIP shots:



They were undercoated using the new spray paint from battlefront/army painter, and it was a great, great time saver. So much so in fact, that I am having serious thoughts about putting the SS on hold and going straight for a pure armour soviet force, simply because it could be painted up so quickly. So tempting....

Anyway, thanks for reading this project log and I hope I've tempted a few of you to get started with flames of war. Be sure to share your projects here as well! Let me know what you think of the completed force too please.

Very nice, I don't think I would have bothered to do the crew, when a bail marker will surfice, but nice job all the same, you have really brought out the detail on the crew ;-)

Pretty awesome Legoburner. I like all the crewmen poking their heads up.