Crusader Miniatures German Tank Hunters

Bought a North Star Miniatures (http://www.northstarfigures.com/)  lucky bag and these were some of the figures that were in it. I'm really enjoying painting World War II figures at the moment, especially Germans. Lets face it they did have the coolest uniforms and weapons. The other figures in the lucky bag were Artizan Designs German Panzer Lehr. Hopefully I'll get around to painting them someday soon, although I've got all the figures I bought from Salute. So many figures so little time (damn that would of been a better title for this blog, never mind).

Fallschirmjagers 3

Finished the machine gun team this weekend. I probably should of based them on a large round base, but I was on automatic pilot and before I new it I'd super glued them on to rectangle bases and they didn't want to come off. Never mind I think they should still work O.K.

Fallschirmjagers 2

Another bunch of Fallschirmjagers finished. I have a machine gun team lying down to do but I've gone and based them individually when I think they would of been better on one large round base. O well, I still think they'll look alright.

Fallschirmjagers

I've always liked WWII figures, I guess it reminds me of the boxes of Airfix soldiers that I used to play with and paint badly when I was younger. I've got a bit of a love affair with Artizan miniatures too so I've been admiring their set of WWII figures for a while but its another period and another set of reference material I'd have to get; more expense! But after admiring the fantastic painted miniatures on the Saxon Dog blog ( http://saxondog.blogspot.com/) I couldn't resist any more. This still left me with the problem of reference for uniform colours etc.

In steps Artmaster Studios (http://www.artmasterstudio.co.uk/) and their fantastic visions. If your not familiar with Artmaster Studios then a brief explanation of who they are may be necessary. Artmaster is run by a guy called Toby and they offer a figure painting service; you can find his painted figures dotted around all over the web on various sites, Victrix (http://www.victrixlimited.com/) being a good one to visit to see his excellent work, or just visit their site. What he also does is video himself painting varies figures. This he normally does live on a Friday night, which he calls Artmaster Visions. He's also posted these video demo's on Youtube, (http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtmasterStudioTV?blend=2&ob=video-mustangbase) which is where I found his demo for painting a German Fallschirmjager ( a paratrooper to me and you ). After watching said demo I made a note of any paints a didn't already have and bought them along with some figures, the results of which you can find below.