StuG G Platoon

Having successfully painted the first of the StuG Assault Guns from the Open Fire! starter box, I set about finishing off the platoon by tackling the other two.

Here are the finished results. The only difference is that I used a darker paint for the green on the following two StuGs. Let me know which one you prefer 9assuming you can see the difference!), as that will form the scheme for all of my German vehicles.

I've also added some MIG Pigment and Citadel Typhus Corrosion to the tracks, track wheels and lower hull areas to add a bit of dirt and weathering to the miniatures.

That's all for the StuGs, next up we'll take a look at some Shermans I think!

Painting the StuG G - Part 2

Here's the link to Part 1, in case you haven't seen it:  Part 1

Thanks for coming back! When we left it in Part 1, we had applied the 50/50 mix of Chocolate Brown and Middlestone. The next job is to 'feather' on pure Chocolate Brown (Vallejo Model Color 872) in the centre of the brown camo areas, creating a gradient of colour.

After this we add the green in the same way. I've used a 50/50 mix of GW Moot Green and Vallejo Model Color 882 'Middlestone', followed by pure Moot Green. I wasn't convinced that Moot Green was the perfect colour to use; it was a toss-up between Moot Green and the darker Warpstone Glow (I don't have any of the equivalent Vallejo greens... blame the Dark Angels for that!).

 

Painting the StuG G - Part 1

I recently started collecting a 15mm German Army. Apart from a few test stands of infantry, the first models I tackled in a serious way were the German StuG G Assault Guns from the Open Fire! box produced by Battlefront for its Flames of War game.

The StuG G in history

The StuG G, or the Sturmgeschütz III Ausführung G as it is more properly known, was the most widely produced variant of the Assault Gun class of German Armoured vehicles during World War II. Over 8,400 StuG G's were produced between 1940 and 1945 (out of a total of ~11,000 StuG III and StuH models), and they served extensively in all theatres except North Africa; 90th Light Division had a mere 2 StuG D assault guns in its 288 zbV Regiment at the Battle of Gazala in June 1942, an although more StuGs were sent to Tunisia in the closing days of the fighting in North Africa, they were never present in large numbers.