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Staff 600 point Project: Dion’s Rangers
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Dion’s Rangers
Battlefront Staff 600 point Project...
Dion is one of our Graphic Designers and is the man responsible for the design and layout of most of our books. He’s a bloody good painter as well.
Of all the U.S. forces the Rangers interest me the most. The ’fire-brigade’ force for the U.S., the Rangers were always in the thickest of the fighting. Although casualties were always very high, the Rangers fight on and always achieve their goals!
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Dion decide just to make the 600 points.
I wanted to get my 600 points painted quickly so I spent a couple of days reading about the Rangers to get myself into the right frame of mind (Hill 400... very bloody for those poor Rangers!), I also wanted to try a new painting technique out that should speed up my painting of infantry.
I had a scratch around in my bits-box to find some extra things to chuck on the bases, a German pin marker and some random guns and ammo boxes will do nicely. My procedure for assembling and painting this platoon was pretty unorthodox compared to how I normally paint so I will briefly explain what I did:
1. Cleaned up the infantry and then positioned them on the bases to get the best interactions before committing them in place with super-glue. I also added the dead German after clipping away as much of the base as possible.
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2. I undercoated the miniatures in Black (FWP300) and then mixed up the basing filler by adding Battlefield Brown (FWP324) and a spot of PVA to some Perma-fill. Applied to the bases and let everything dry.
3. I block painted the miniatures (when I finished they looked like they had been painted by my three year old!) and when dry applied a heavy wash of Klear floor polish mixed with some black ink (known as ’miracle wash’ in the modelling community), once dry it was just a matter of highlighting and adding a few details like ranger patches on the sleeves and the battalion diamond on the back of the helmets.
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So easy and the end result is well... see for yourself...
4. I then mixed some Battlefield Brown (FWP324) and a spot of PVA with some fine model railway ballast and put it
on in patches on the bases to add more texture, I built up some areas
on a couple of the bases to look like craters. Once dry a quick
drybrush of Comrade Khaki (FWP326) finished the bases.
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I glued on some extra weapons at this stage, the empty brass in the
pseudo German MG pit was done by cutting up thin synthetic hairs from a
house-brush and then painting some thinned down PVA in a patch,
sprinkling on the cut hairs and drybrushing with a brass colour when
dry.
5. I glued the static grass on last by painting small dots of slightly watered down PVA onto the bases, I thought this may make a more natural grass look by having each grass clump radiating from central point much like it really is.
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6. A spray with matt varnish and voila! Rangers! Ready to lead the way!
The whole platoon took three nights to paint for a total of about 6 hours.
A little later I finished the Sherman platoon, the two bazooka teams and the sniper.
Happy Gaming and remember the Ranger motto ’You aren’t a veteran division until you have taken over 100% casualties!’
Dion
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US Ranger Company
Ranger HQ (10 points)
- add 2x Bazooka teams (50 points)
- add 1x Sniper (50 points)
Ranger Platoon (full strength, 125 points)
Support Platoons
5x M4 (75mm) Sherman tanks (345 points)
Total 580 points
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