From PhilH: Obsolete at the Armoury (50 Points)

Rattling through these Chambers now. The Armoury, a miniature that's armoured. Well barely, say I: how's about an obsolete WWI-vintage tank, thrown desperately into the fray in the Spanish Civil War? As I mentioned in my recent entry about the tizano improvised armour, in the inter-war Period, Spain was slow to adapt to new forms of warfare. Cutting investment in the armed forces, at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936, Spain's armoured forces totalled a handful of obsolete tanks, primarily a couple of squadrons of Renault FT and Schneider CA1. Domestic development and production of tanks was sorely lacking. Hence, the most common armoured vehicles of the Civil War were hurriedly provided by larger powers keen to swing the conflict in their favour: German Pz1, Italian tankettes and Soviet T-26.

I wanted to reflect the bonkers variety of armoured vehicles that were used in my collection, so have a fair stash of them to paint. While innovative for 1917, the FT is so delightfully obsolete, dorky and useless, I'll have to get it to the table soon.

I used this sheet from FC Modeltips for the camo pattern. Interestingly, other versions of the pattern working from black and white photos concluded green-on-green, but I much preferred the green/brown. This 1:56 resin model in is from Blitzkrieg miniatures, with nice touches of a vision port that can be open with driver visible and both the cast turret with Hotchkiss MG, and the Berliet design riveted turet, with 37mm gun. Spain's models were MG-armed, though later shipments were recieved from Poland and France, dumping obsolete hardware on the depserate Republic, so plausibly they could have had the 37mm: Steven J Zaloga's Spanish Civil War Tanks by Osprey makes no mention, but Chain of Command Espana has an entry for it.

Then finally for reasons, I had a second MG turret, so I painted that one to be a captured vehicle, with Nationalist Spain flag design around the turret, and St Andrews cross aerial recognition marking on the cupola.

This was varnished with AK interactive ultra matte, so has a suuuper matte finish. I wouldn't use it on infantry, but it seems passable on tanks. Pleased with how the exhaust rusting came out, so have another shot of it:

One 28mm armoured vehicle for 20, plus two spare turrets say 5 points a piece and the Chamber bonus. 50 points please, Wednesday Minion!

I really like the muted WW1 tones on the paint job and the weathering is really great Phil! I'll grant you 2points for each spare turret (they just aren't the equivalent of a whole 28mm figure with basing) for a total of 44 points

Cap'n Wednesday