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Couple of Rubicon 28mm, 1:56 scale tanks I'm currently working on.



M4A3 76mm, with a winter theme to it, intended for the Ardennes Offensive. The name comes from being somewhat scaled down from 'Fury'. Wanted a whitewash look that appeared like it was applied by someone who really didn't want to be doing it and then has been in the rain a bit, seems to work.



Weathering is only very basic at this stage, just a burnt umber filtering over the base colours, some pigments will follow



Panzer IVH, winter again, this time by someone who while they didn't want to be doing it was aware they were being watched.



Weathering is to the same basic level only.

Both are nice little kits, the M4 is the nicer to make but once built both are serviceable. Side armour on the Pz IV can be made removable, though here its glued solid. Decals are the ones from the kits.

Happy with how both have turned out, mix of a sprayed base colour (then sprayed camo on the panzer, not that you can really tell). Varnished, then an oil based white for the whitewash, more varnish then an oil based black to black line it before yet more varnish, gloss and matt this time, and the burnt umber acrylic to get to this stage. next up will be the pigments for some thick heavy wet mud and perhaps a bit of snow.

These look very good. Excellent work on the weathering!

Added some infantry to the Americans, plus some crew for the M4.



Wingnut, Benny, Kyle & Spider, the commander is not yet painted and will be a more conventional model.


Group of US winter themed infantry.

New paint technique for me with a black base, pre shading with white then glazed layers for skins, clothes and webbing, worked out really well and pretty fast to do, much more gentle effect than my usual layering used in 15mm which would be a bit too cartoonish here.

12 more Infantry, which will give me a squad more or less, plus a platoons worth of BAR and some other support guys.