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Wayne Prepares for FlamesCon 2017
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Wayne Prepares for FlamesCon 2017
I’m heading to Flamescon this weekend for my first Team Yankee tournament. Since I’d been playing a lot of games with my Soviet Tank Battalion during the Red Thunder campaign, I’ve decided to take my West Germans. However, with the tournament being 80 points my 100 points of West Germans was a bit hard to shave down, it being built around seven Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
Check out the rest of Waynes West Germans here...
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This needed a rethink without overburdening myself to too much to paint. Luckily I’ve been squirreling away a reasonable collection of West German models, so I had most of what I needed on hand available to paint.
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Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie
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Panzeraufklärungs Kompanie |
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1x Leopard 2
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11 points |
1x Leopard 1 |
3 points |
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Leopard 2 Panzer Zug
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Leopard 1 Panzer Zug |
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3x Leopard 2
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33 points |
3x Leopard 1 |
9 points |
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Marder Panzergrenadier Zug
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Luchs Späh Trupp |
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3x MG3 team with Panzerfaust 44 anti-tank rocket
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7 points |
2x Luchs |
1 point |
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2x Milan missile team
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Luchs Späh Trupp |
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3x Marder
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2x Luchs |
1 point |
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Gepard FlaKpanzer Batterie
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Luchs Späh Trupp |
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4x Gepard
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10 points |
2x Luchs |
1 point |
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Jaguar 1 Jagdpanzer Zug
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2x Jaguar 1
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4 points |
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65 points |
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15 points |
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| Most of this I have painted, so from this I needed to paint 4x Leopard 1, 2x Jaguar 1 and 2x Luchs. The Leopard 1 tanks and Jaguar 1 Jagdpanzers I already had assembled, but for the Luchs I didn’t have the additional models. I checked with Chris to see if there were some in the studio stash I could grab. I was in luck, there was a box of four. This was more than I needed, but since I’d started down the path I thought I might as well jump in with both feet into the Panzeraufklärungs Kompanie pool. |
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I got stuck in to painting the Leopard 1s and Jaguar 1s right away. Following Aaron’s handy PDF camouflage templates I soon knocked out the basic paint scheme with my airbrush. Early this week I finished the Luchs. I had hoped to paint up an objective or two, but looks like I’ve run out of time.
Check out Aaron's NATO 3 Colour Painting Templates here...
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| Next time I’ll let you know how I got on. |
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