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Ardennes 1944 - Ridin High!

Now I could continue my tank. But fate struck. The head of my airbrush, the fine head, failed. So, I had to postpone spraying until I had the time to head into town to buy a new airbrush head assembly. To keep from falling to far behind I started putting together the Fallschimjäger. Putting them together was not really difficult but because there were suddenly so many I lost the big picture. In the end I assembled all the figures one by one to keep the overview. For the Jägers’ camo coats I used the following Humbrol colors: For figure 2 from box 2 nos. 102, 186, 93. For figure 3 from box 1 nos. 63, 105,98. For the remaining figures the coats are painted in Humbrol colors nos. 63,105,98 but this scheme is different than the one on figure 3 from box 1.

The camouflage pattern for the remaining figures is a hard-edged, square continues shape, while the camouflage patterns on the other two figures have a more feathered appearance. The pants on all the Jägers are painted in Humbrol 155. The deeper parts of the paints are painted in a darkened Humbrol 155 and 33 (flat black - ed.) mixture. The higher parts are drybrushed with a lightened Humbrol 155 and 34 (flat white – ed.) mixture. To give the Jägers’ coats a greener appearance, I gave them a wash of Tamiya Forest Green (XF-49) afterwards. This is ideal because the paint is an acrylic and you can thin a lot but it will still give the needed effect. The faces and hands received the same treatment as the tank crew. When this was all ready after a week of hard work in the evening hours, I went by the shop in the day time after my normal work for the fine head assembly for my airbrush.

And then you have a look at the shelves and you find something…. in this case a kit by Academy, box no. 1377, German Infantry set ‘Battle of the Bulge 1944’. Don’t think about it and buy the thing…