From Andrew E: 8th Army Tanks and Terrain (65 points)

January brought around Australia’s biggest wargaming convention – CanCon held annually in stinking hot weather in Canberra.  This year I decided to change my usual Australian Army in the Western Desert with some slightly bigger tanks (thanks to their British cousins).  The Australians are a fun army but they only have a limited arsenal to choose from when it comes to vehicles (their heavier tanks never left Australia but hung around waiting for the fight to come to them).

Enter the M3 Grant and the Daimler!

Both of them turned out pretty nicely with a little bit of weathering on them.  Originally I was going to add some weathering powders but after playing around a little decided against it as it just made the models look to messy.  Usually I also add a bit of rust to vehicles but thought that there would not be enough water in the desert to rust!  Instead grime, chipping and bit of diesel spill would do.

In addition to finishing up an army, I decide I would build a table of desert terrain.  These are the first two buildings that are completed.

It took a bit of experimenting to get the look that I was after with the buildings - textured paint then a couple of different sprays finished up with weathering and washes for the grime.

Now just to finish the remaining 8 buildings…
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Very nice work, Andrew - you'll have to tell us who made the vehicles and buildings, they look pretty damned cool!

I've tagged the armour as an entry in the What A Tanker! rounds, since it's the right scale and it's a worthy competitor in the field. 20 points each for them.

The buildings occupy a bit over one standard cube, so on a slightly ad hoc basis, I'm giving them 25 points.

So that's 65 points, well done!

Ev