From DallasE: Dug-In Panther (20 points)

Visitors to my house will likely recognize this model - it's been sitting on the sideboard primed for two years? Three years? Since the Earth began to cool? Who knows. But it's painted now. (In fact it had some grey drybrushing on the pavers but I re-primed over that a couple days ago). It's the "Dug-In Panther" model from Warlord Games' Bolt Action range. Can't remember where I got it (someone gave it to me as I know I'd never have bought it) but it's kinda neat all the same.

It's a resin casting, base and turret separate. The idea here of course is that the Germans have dug in a Panther tank basically as a bunker. Presumably the tank was nearly out of fuel with no chance of resupply, or suffered some nearly terminal mechanical problem, so the defenders dug a shallow ditch in the middle of the street, drove it in, and piled the paving stones back up around it.

I painted it in three-colour camo - base is GW Tallarn Sand, the green is Castellan Green/Death World Forest, brown is Vallejo Dark Brown/Steel Legion Drab. Then the model was washed with Agrax Earthshade, the dunkelgelb highlighted Tallarn again, and some sponge chips applied with AK German Camo Black-Brown.

 

The engine was done Mechanicus Standard Grey with Nuln Oil. Paving stones AK Dark Rubber/MSG/Dawnstone/Celestra Grey, and dirt started Rhinox Hide up through Dark Brown to Steel Legion Drab.

Honestly I can't see a great deal of use for the model on our gaming table as most of our WW2 games are set in countryside. But if we have a Berlin '45 game (ever) this will look pretty cool, as the Volkssturm gathered around it demonstrate.

Points: 28mm vehicle x1 = 20 points

Cheers,

Dallas

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What a cool ersatz bunker, Dallas. You'd done a great job both with the late war camo and with defining the bricks and freshly turned dirt. As you say, it will make a great objective for a Spring '45 game in Germany. Sort of a reverse 'Fury', eh? :) I pity the first Sherman/T34 to turn the corner on that street. Very nicely done, Dal.

- Curt