Its been a few weeks in the making but this week in Flames
of War Fridays D'Day has arrived and the Allies have landed! Using
the methods outlined in previous weeks I've got the US Parachute Infantry
Platoon and Shermans from the Open
Fire Starter Set ready for the table-top.
First up is the Mighty Ape debut of the Sherman Firefly, pictured to
the right. Open Fire includes two of these up-gunned Shermans, which the British
& Commonwealth forces used from late 1944 onwards. Armed with 17 pdr guns
the Sherman Fireflies are the most powerful tank available to Allied FOW
players.
The Parachute Infantry Platoon is packed full of characterful models and
breaks down into a HQ Squad with officer, medic and radio operator,
three Infantry Squads each including a machine-gun team, and a
heavy weapons squad including a mortar and bazooka team.
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Welcome back to another Flames
of War Friday.
I've been hard at work this week working my way through the Allied
forces from the Open
Fire Starter Set and its time to start basing them.
Step One: Glue to Base
Firstly you'll need to make sure that you're gluing the correct figures to the
correct bases and in the right combinations; Battlefront have produced a
wonderful assembly
guide to help us out. Then simply glue each figure to one of the
round slots on the base using either a super glue or plastic
glue.
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For this week's Flames
of War Friday I've been working on the US Parachute Rifle
Platoon from the Open
Fire Starter Set.
Firstly I made sure I had all the tools and paints which I was going to
need. As far as tools go you'll want a good set of clippers
and hobby knife to clip the models off the sprue and tidy up the small mold
lines. I'd also recommend grabbing some popsicle sticks to glue batches of 4–5
men to. This makes it easier to paint the small infantry models as your fingers
won't get in the way.
I also recommend at least 2 different sized brushes, a medium sized brush
for doing base coats and a fine detail brush for the smaller detail work,
I used the Army
Painter Insane Detail Brush.
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The weekend is in sight so that means its time for Flames of War Friday!
This week I've busted out my airbrush and got stuck into painting up the
Shermans from the Open
Fire set. For painting the Allied forces I'm using the Vallejo
Range. The key colours which you'll need are Russian
Green, Green Grey, Black, Chocolate Brown,
Light Brown, and Gunmetal, which are available in both the Model
Colour and Model
Air ranges. These colours will also be used a lot when it comes to
painting the infantry.
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