From: Jeff B - Sgt Guinness - Ingenieure vorwärts! - "Hall of Traps"

 Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure Vorwarts!

Here is my very first submission ever! This is the first Challenge I’ve entered though I’ve been following it for quite some time. I’m certainly not worthy compared to the extremely talented and very imaginative painters before me. However, I felt I’d give it a go as I needed inspiration and motivation to get some projects moving.

For this first chamber "Hall of Traps" I went with the lying in wait / stalking angle of the “Trap”.

A German pazerschreke team and 81mm mortar with FO lay in wait while supporting German Engineers take up positions to ambush unsuspecting allied armor and infantry slogging their way through the dense Normandy bocage country, June 1944.

Figures are 15mm Peter Pig and the FO team is Old Glory, all purchased about 20 plus years ago. They’ve sat in the same box I put them in once I primed them, doomed never to see the light of day, until now. The 15mm club project had fallen apart and they languished...

The mortar crew, FO, and panzerschreck team have the white infantry piping on their epaulettes while the engineers have the orange piping associated with that branch.

The paints are mostly Polly Scale with a few Vallejo and craft store paints. The figs are based on washers and the basing is wood glue, sand, and ballast painted over with craft store paints and flocked with 25 year old static grass. I’m not happy with how shinny and bright green the grass came out and will need to to something else with the remaining figs to be painted.

(14) 15mm figs + 1 mortar @ 2 pts each = 30 pts + 20 for the chamber of “Traps” = 50 pts.

                                             Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure vorwärts!