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
