Flames of War - Tutorial - Entrechment Marker

Also finished the painting job on the Entrechment Marker... easy way to build it up with some putty , balsa wood , toothpicks and the usual colours and flock...

Flames of War - Tutorial - Rebuilding things from Battlefront Webpage (Minefields)

Also finished a couple of more minefields by now as shown here:

Minefields

Flames of War - Tutorial - Selfmade fences the tricky way (mikado)

With some more time I finished a couple of more of my

Fences (the tricky ones)

Love the outcome ! :)

Flames of War - Tutorial - Building things from the Battlefront Homepage - Barbwire -

Browsing the Battefront Homepage you will find the Modeling section and some things on "How to do..."... Christmas brought some Balsa Wood to me and so I started redoing the tutorials from their webpage.

The Barbwire:

As I am also building a 78. Sturm Division Unit I am in need of some trenches and stuff like that. The barbwire stuff from the BF webpage looked easy and I also would rate it as being easy.

Materials used:
Balsa Wood
match sticks
Superglue
Miliput
Filler
Wire


Step 1:
Scale for this one is 20cm by 5cm. This is also the exact sizing BF gives on their webpage.After cutting your Balsa Wood into shape you can take some of your match sticks and cut them to approx size of a standing model. You will need three parts of your cut match stick for one "metal holder". So superglue them together (first as a cross and then do a support strand as the third one). This done you can either choose to do only one row of barbwire in the middle or two from the outside. As sticking to BF plans this one will focus on only one row in the middle.

Step 2: 
Superglue your selfmade metal poles to the balsa wood. As I did it ... you can put in some variation on the wideness of your metal poles.

Step 3: 
Take your miliput or similar epoxy to build some nice textures around (e.g. craters).

Step 4: 
Use filler to give the balsa board some more texture.



Step 5:
Paint and flock as desired

Step 6: 
Take your wire and a thin pen. Spin the wire around the pen and you get your barbwire rolls. Cut down as desired. Paint them as you like and as it fits to your scenery. and glue them to the board.


Step 7:
Enjoy your work

Flames of War - Tutorial - How to build a Sturmboot German Wehrmacht (Assault boats)

Thanks to Gary of "Garys Command Post" which I was browsing and asked him about some sort of template or similar to what he has done.

For the sizing of these Assault Boats I highly recommend comparing to a midsize FoW base. This will make the boat a bit bigger than it would have been , but it suits best to what you want to do. I normally also recommend putting the shorter side of the medium base in direction of "travel" :)

So what materials do we need ?

- The plan
- Cardstock
- PVA Glue
- Filler
- Colours

Step 1:
Use the template onto your cardstock and trace around with a pencil. Then do it again with the flaps "F" to get an idea there to fold later on.

Step 2:
Cut out

Step 3:
Trace a second "bottom" of the boat slighty smaller then the first one as you can hide the folding flaps with that.

Step 4:
Glue everything together

Step 5:
Use the filler to clean out any gaps which you might have from glueing

Step 6:
Prime and paint as desired



Template (Curtesy of Gary):

The finished piece (Curtesy of Gary again):

Flames of War - Armylist - Germany - SS-Panzerkompanie (SS Tank Company)

Hi all,

after all painting and building stuff some ppl asked me on how one of my armies actually look like.

Taking a look into "Atlantik Wall" starting page 184 you will find the SS-Panzerkompanie  (SS Tank Company).

Here we have a Fearless Veteran unit:

SS-Panzerkompanie HQ
2 Panther A    - 425 Points

Combat Platoons:
SS-Panther Platoon with 3 Panther A - 640 Points

Gepanzertes SS-Panzergrenadier Platoon with 3 Panzergrenadier Squads - 260 Points
Replace Command MG Team with Command Panzerfaust SMG              -   10 points
Replace one MG Team with a Panzerfaust MG Team                                -   10 points

Weapons Platoons:
SS-Panzer Anti Aircraft Gun Platoon with 2 Flakpanter 38 (t) - 90 Points

Support Platoons:
Light SS-Panzerspähplatoon with 1 Panzerspäh Patrol - 105 Points
(in this case I swapped Command SD KfZ 223 radio with an Sd KfZ 222)

Corps Support (Confident/Veteran):
Amoured Rocket Launcher Battery with 3 Panzerwerfer 42 - 165 Points

Total Points: 1705
Number of Platoons: 6

Flames of War - Tutorial - Oil drums from sprues

As you can see there are a lot of things you can do with your belowed sprues.

Step 1:
Lets take the sprues again... you see the small round ends at the corners and in the middle ? Yes ! We will use these now.

Step 2:
After cutting them out (which I doubt everyone will get as well done as that they will be straight). Take two of these and glue them on top of each other.

Step 3:
Do this with the others as well.. one sprue makes approx 4.5 Oil tons.

Nice objective marker.... in case you are sensitive to extreme realism.. put a wound bandage soaked in PVA above them to hide the worst...

Prime and paint... and enjoy...