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  • Hungarian Artillery

    Hungarian Artillery

    Hungarian Artillery, Models by Battlefront, Painted by Tankred

    This platoon has seen a somewhat funny story: I painted it in order to support either my hungarian tank company or motorised infantry. For sure artillery is important and the german 10,5 cm guns can provide a means against russian tanks in artillery bomardments. To field a hungarian platoon means, that you have to buy two blister guns, a hungarian artillery crew blister and the towing vehicles as well. A lot of money if you consider to field alternatively mortars for the infantry company. However I always liked the sprayed hungarian 3 color camo, therefore I decided to paint the guns in that version. I found several picturs showing the german guns in this painting scheme.

    I wanted to have the teams in a dug in position since the hungarian troops were forced to cover in field works since the russians threw  massive attack after attack against them. Therefore I modeled three different base sizes. The first attempt with the artillery base was to small for the huge guns, so I designed another one. After that I made a silicone form and made some bases with resin. The result was really nice. I cut off the bases of the infantry models and glued them directly to the designed base. One nice effect on this technic is, that the base ground is less thick. For sure there will be models to be fall off in future, but I can repair this.

    The crews are mixed between germans and hungarians, the main difference is the boots of the germans. I just painted them as trousers and I think it is hard to pick them out if you want to search them.

    The strange thing on this platoon is, that within our campaign we do play with the exeptional rule „Across the Volga“ which means that you may place your artillery outside the table – you do not need to paint it…

  • Hungarian tank platoon (Harckocsizó platoon)

    Hungarian tank platoon (Harckocsizó platoon)

    38t tanks by Battlefront, painted by Tankred

    I managed to finish the core of my hungarian tank company. The core was not very hard in history. When the 1st armoured division fought at the river Don in 1942 their T-38G tanks were absolutely useless against most of the tanks the Sovjets threw at the hungarian controlled sector. The main gun was to weak to cope with T34 and for sure with KV1 tanks. The models are really tiny compared to other german Tanks, e.g. Panzer IV. However the history and the fact that this troop is underpowered against Russian standard troops are very interesting for me. I wanted to paint a force which ceased to exist in 1943 sindce the Russians simply wiped them out. In wargaming the aspect of modeling a unit the day before it was defeated is for me a very interestin one.

    I decided to add just some stowage parts since I did not find a lot of stowage on historical pictures. Moreover the models are very small, so they would look somewhat overdone if they had to carry too much. As usual I used magnets for fixing the turrets. The antennas were made of goat hair from a brush. I printed the decals and the registration plates by myself and I was very pleased how it came out.

    Hungarian T-38G tanks by Battlefront, painted by Tankred

    Panzer grey is not a favourite color for me. This time I started with a brown primer. After that I airbrushed german grey on the tanks, in a second step I highlighted with the airbrush and a lighter grey. After that I just sprayed water on the models and used Vallejo black Wash to bring the details back to visibility. A light dry brush with neutral grey was a good finish for the models.

    For the bailed out markers I used german tank drivers and one hungarian officer. The hungarian tank drivers wore leather clothes and the characteristic hungarian uniforms. Just painting the models in a different way worked excellent.

    Now I am somewhat curious which role these tanks will play in our upcoming campaign. Light tanks as the core of a company will be for sure ver y hard to play but I hope interesting and rewarding.

  • Gépkocsisó Lövész Platoon

    Gépkocsisó Lövész Platoon

    Currently everybody in my Gaming Club, the Spieltrieb Frankfurt is preparing for our upcoming Ostfront campaign. I am painting an Hungarian Force. As with my other two armies, British 8th army and Fallschirmjäger, I am painting both a tank and an infantry company. I started with an motorised infantry platoon as this is the support choice for a hungarian tank force and infantry is with me at almost every game I play.

    The hungarians in FoW have the excellent special rule that they may reroll their attempts to dig in. Excellent for me! I do fail this roll very often.

    The hungarian motorised infantry was equipped with the hungarian Botond truck. The excellent Battlefront models can be glued together with or without canvas. I decided to populate one truck with shown infantry. I found several historical pictures for different painting schemes on Botonds. I picked one with a typical 3 colour camo scheme, which came out very nice. The hungarian arms is show at the door. I made my own decals for this.

    Having quite a lot of seated infantry models was very important for me. Usually you see just a couple of models in transport trucks painted for FoW but I decided to make it look more realistic. For sure a truck contained more than 8 soldiers during war, but this abstraction was fine for me.

    In our club we decided to design the scenery as a fall countryside seeing the first snow of the year. Literally this is perfect for showing a hungarian force just before the whole army was destroyed.

    From the painter´s view I must say that the hungarian force is very nice to paint, since you may use some characteristic color.

  • Nimrod anti air tank

    Nimrod anti air tank

    Hungarian Nimrod, model by Battlefront, painted by Tankred

    When collecting a force I especially like the models which are very typical and special for the force I paint. The hungarian army fielded some very individual models, one of them is the Nimrod, although it is an original swedish design built in licence in Hungary. However there the unique hungarian mixture is very interesting, therefore I startet with the Flak tank.

    Having airbrushed the hungarian Stukas gave me the skills to airbrush these tiny tank models. They came out really excellent. I produced my own decals using decal printing paper and a color printer.

    The camo scheme is typical hungarian with three colors. I used exactly those mentioned in the Flames of War publications considering the Eastern Front: Reflective Green,

  • Images from Military Museum in Budapest

    Images from Military Museum in Budapest

    I would like to share some pictures I made in the Hungarian National Military Museum (Hadtörténeti Múzeum) in Budapest. I visit the museum on a regular basis since my wife is from Budapest and we visit this beautiful town often.

    The museum is one of my favourite places there. The presentation is a little bit old fashioned, but you get quite a lot of information about all epoches of hungarian warfare. The second world war is looked at in four rooms. There are also quite bix exponates like a Heeresanklopfgerät PAK 36 with Stielgranate and a Schwimmwagen. Not many texts are translated, especially in the older exhibitions. However if you are in the topic this should not stop you.

    Currently I start painting a Hungarian FoW army, so I brought back into my mind these pictures.



    If you visit Budapest you can easily find the museum on the Castle Hill in Buda.
    The Military Museum at Google Maps

  • Hungarian Stukas

    Hungarian Stukas

    Hungarian Stukas

    Emezek vannak az új magyar Stukamak. These are my new hungarian Stukas. The Ju 87 D Models again come from armaments in miniature. This was my second attempt to paint aircraft so I made a lot of mistakes and now I know much more about how to airbrush 1:100 models.

    First of all I will paint the parts separately in the future. Moreover I need to think about a way to add a handle for painting the model. I tried to mask the light blue bottom of the Stukas with liquid mask. This worked well, but to get ridd off the mask was a pain in the arse. Therefore I will use liquid mask only less complicated surfaces than the bottom of a Stuka with bombs attached.

    Hungarian Stuka models with flight base

    The chosen color scheme is a kind of free style since I have no evidence of a aircraft which was spraygunned like the hungarian tanks were. It seems that a german style with edges was used for camoflage with hungarian markings.

    However I wanted to have a similar look for the hungarian tanks I will paint in the near future. To be honest I am not that accurate when it comes to aircraft since in Flames of war they are mere counters. The Aircraft rules are not very attractive to me so I found a way to use them as objectives instead. Since the carrier is not retractable they can stand on the table just as they are.

    Hungarian Stuka Markings

    I am quite happy with the bases for the aircraft since the are built from the scratch. A little hole in each Stuka and a piece of steel wire in the top of the acryl rod is a quite simple construction. I have chosen different heights and angles and I like the way the models are positioned.

    Painted bottom of the Stukas