Archive for Jason pH
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Jason
United States
Arnold
Missouri
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Ever since I was little I had been fascinated by machines. War machines in particular, WWII war machines to get even more specific. While there was no denying the power and majesty of the main battle tank, I had always been intrigued by those smaller machines of war. Transports, scout cars, the oft ignored smaller brethren to the Sherman, Panthers, Churchills and others. The M3 and M8 Scout Cars, the Daimler and Humber scout cars, and, of course, the half-tracks.
Memoir '44: Disaster at Dieppe gives us the iconic German Sd.Kfz. 250 half track. Although, to me, the model is a bit wide, it still looks good, and deserves some painting attention. After spending the past few days relearning old skills at painting, I decided to tackle these guys last.
Steps 1 and 2 are always similar. Starting in their nudity to the black base coat.
I use black as the base, as I that I have found in my experience, that it allows colors to show up bolder and brighter. Sure, it may take a few extra coats with some of the colors, but since I paint very thinly, I'm used to the extra work.
Step 3 is the base coat. For the half-tracks I used a 4-1 mixture of Citadels Shadow Gray and Bone White to give me the trademark blue-gray paint scheme of the Wehrmacht.
Step 4 is the detail work, painting the tracks, wheels, gun and mount.
Step 5 is the washing step, this allows the deeper details to stand out more and give the model it's depth in painting.
Step 6 is a dry brushing of 2:1 Shadow Gray to Bone White mix over the model, carefully. This coat goes over the sharper edges a bit more, and lightly over the wheel hubs and track wheels to make them stand out more.
Step 7 is where I generally go over each model with a fine tipped brush, and clean up any mistakes or ugly spots that happened to show up during painting. Plus any minor detailing I feel like doing, such as the light dry brush of graveyard earth at the back of the 'track, and on the backside of the wheel wells back down the side of the vehicle.
Step 8, is "Enjoy!", and enjoy I have, in both painting these wonderful little models for M'44 and in sharing them on this blog. I hope you have as well.
This doesn't mean the end of my schemes and painting, I plan on eventually painting the whole set, but I felt these "secondary" models that came with the Overlord map sets needed to be stars in their own little documentary.
I hope that this isn't the last of these offerings from Days of Wonder to add to the highly enjoyable Memoir '44 system.
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Jason
United States
Arnold
Missouri
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Continuing the painting saga: The WC-13 Dodge Truck from Memoir '44: Hedgerow Hell.
The basic paint job is identical to the Jeep models. I was a bit "wetter" with the wash, and have 2 at the end with a lighter coloured dry brushing on the canvas. Haven't decided if I like it or not.
Yes, that's them waaaay in the back.
Black primer, like their little brothers
Knarloc Green base coat
Detail work, black on the tires and windows, touched up green on the hubs.
Black wash over the whole model
Graveyard Earth dry brush
Only did 2 with the Camo Green dry brushing on the canvas back, haven't quite made up my mind if I like it or not.
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Jason
United States
Arnold
Missouri
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Many others have started (or in the case of some maniacs, completed) painting up their Memoir '44 figures. I've decided to join the ranks of those poor souls. I actually started with the Tigers, to get my feet wet again and used the guide that put up some time ago ( http://boardgamegeek.com/image/651081/memoir-44)
My second batch was the jeeps and trucks, starting with the jeeps.
All nice and neatly waiting patiently for the primer
Jeeps and trucks primered
Used Citadel's Knarloc Green for the base coat
Chaos black for the windows (yes, I did both sides), wheels, and re-touched up the wheel hubs with Knarloc.
Black wash over each of them.
Graveyard Earth (also Citadel...sense a theme?) over each of them and viola! Complete!
All told I put in about 3 to 4 hours of work on the jeeps.
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Jason
United States
Arnold
Missouri
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As some (or all) know, I am a Memoir '44 junkie. I love the system, I love the simplicity to complexity scale you can ride, I enjoy the fact that I can play it with my 10 year old son, or my father and anyone in-between and outside of that scale..
One part though that I was very disappointed in (Sorry Richard!) is the Air Pack. Not that there was anything wrong with the components, beautifully updated rule book or general presentation. It was the rules set for aircraft. To me, they felt bashed in, as if someone had an idea for a completely separate game, and shoe horned it into the M'44 system.
Many others have come up with some very creative solutions to these rules to varying degrees of success. So I figured it was my turn to take a shot.
I felt that the air rules could be handled in the manner of the Combat cards introduced in the Sword of Stalingrad expansion. However, it wasn't until I saw StevenE's Air Deck that the ideas I had in my head started to coalesce into something concrete to grab onto and start working.
I started on the premise of using on the existing models, and try to limit their "abilities" to a tactical sense and use.
Listed below is my Memoir '44 User Page that has the .PDF of what I had created so far.
In the 8 play tests (4 solo, 4 FTF) they seem to be fairly balanced, and easy to use. It will most likely take some tweaking still to get the balance quite right (card mixture ratio, some tweaking of cards themselves, etc...). I'm going to try and get more play testing in soon.
I hope to get others to play test this deck and ruleset, let me know what they think, suggestions, tweaks and so on...
Happy gaming, and good hunting!
http://www.daysofwonder.com/en/mypage/26571/m44
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