Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Military trains in large scale hitting the news

I'm a subscriber to Norway's only model railway magazine called 'Mj-Bladet' (simply translated into 'The Model Railway Magazine'),  which have 4 editions a year.

When I receive a copy I usually sits down, relaxing with a cup of coffee and enjoys the issue.

My military G scale trains on print in Norway's only model railway magazine
When receiving the latest issue today, I was surprised to see this large photo of my large scale military trains, which I has covered in this blog, almost making it to the middle pages too.
My military G scale trains on print in Norway's only model railway magazine
My military G scale trains on print in Norway's only model railway magazine

This was a very nice surprise to see my work from this blog at print and published.

Friday, March 8, 2024

A LGB Toy Train wagon + salvages for the 'scrap box' = Another Heeresfeldbahn military load going to the front

Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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One of my other interests other than the military modelling, wargaming and railway modelling is riding my motorcycle. I'm not only riding it a lot just for commuting to work (60 km away), but for recreational rides as well. But motorcycles are a seasonal thing in Norway, as we have long, cold and snowy winters where running conditions are bad or non existent. So when I had to park my motorcycle for the winter in October, I said that when "when one mc-season ends, another one starts..." as I had a couple of indoor motorcycle modelling projects on my workbench for the winter:

Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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The plan was to make a Kettenkrad and a BMW motorcycle with sidecar on my 3D-printer as military loads for 2 flatcars I was going to use for my G-scale Heeresfeldbahn. The Kettenkrad-kit turned out just fine, but the motorcycle with the sidecar did not look good when upscaled and 3D-printed on my printer. Both of them was originally made to 28mm scale as wargame items, but only the Kettenkrad looked acceptable when scaled up to 1:19 scale. The sidecar-motorcycle didn't print well in my 3D-printer and looked so bad and crude that I finally replaced it with a 1:18 scale diecast BMW model I was able to get cheap instead. I was just going to throw away the parts for the 3D-printed one, but somehow I just kept them laying around on my workbench for a while as I could use them for paint tests etc.

Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
The original motorcycle I 3D-printed, but decided not to use.
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Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
I found this 1:18 scale ready made diecast model instead, which looked the part except for the postwar windscreen and seat. It would be easier to fix those rather than making the 3D-printed model presentable 
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About the same time I went on a trip with my MRC to a model railway exhibition in Germany, where I ended up buying another colorfull LGB flat-wagon, which I could use in my growing Heeresfeldbahn rake:
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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This wagon was going to need a load to make it look more interesting. After seeing a video on YouTube on how to make tarpaulin loads, I was curious to try out the technique my self, and was happy that I didn't throw away the parts for the bad looking 3D-printed BMW motorcycle with sidecar.  It would work as a testpiece for the tarpaulin-technique, as it was ruined anyway. Now I could try to cover up the mistakes literally. 

Making a tarpaulin load

After assembling the motorcycle-model I didn't care to paint it. I just covered it with a sheet of regular tissue-paper (3 layers), and soaked it with diluted PVA-glue (close to 50:50 ratio) using a broad paintbrush to push it into crevices. I started on the highest part of the model, working downwards to the lower parts. I got a couple of rift and tears in the soaked paper, which I just patched up with small tissue- paper pieces and gave them the same treatment, and they blended in perfectly.
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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I let the diluted PVA-glue dry until the next day. When I checked it the tissue-paper had turned into a hard shell, but still it felt kind a little fragile. As I was going to use it outside under different weather conditions, I wanted it to be much sturdier so it wouldn't dissolve in rain or snow. To make it harder and sturdier, I gave i 3 coats of ModPodge, which I have good experience from using it as a sealer for wargaming miniatures.
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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Even if ModPodge include som kind of Vinyl, I wanted it to be sturdier against soaking, so I gave it a couple of layers of varnish as well. By now it didn't feel so fragile anymore. 

Next it could be painted:
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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A wash and some drybrushing really brings out the 'details':
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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-And finally placed on the (repainted) flatcar. The flatcar was simply painted 'Panzer Grey' with a rattlecan, and drybushed withe some brown acrylics.
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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That motorcycle looks much better now hidden  under a tarpaulin. Throw away nothing, your scrap can be hidden under tarpaulin and be uses as loads or terrain-pieces in wargaming.

This was a fun and quick build and made me feel confident to make more such tarpaulin loads in the future. Just by following the instructions from the YouTube video, this technique worked the first time. Have a try for your self. 

Did I mention that I like motorcycles?
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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My LGB Heeresfeldbahn rake so far:
Making a tarpaulin load for model railways. a LGB wagon turnes into a G-scale military railway, heeresfeldbahn.
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Friday, March 1, 2024

A March Workbench update - Creating an Ape Army

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Due to finnising a somewhat longterm conversion of LGB rollingstock into my growing Heeresfeldbahn rake and making a small army for a 'casual wargame in the garden', some other modelling-projects fell behind. One of those projects were the apes I briefly presented in my January Workbench update

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They were made up and sliced together by elements from a 'kit file' found on Thingiverse. When put together in desired positions, I found out that they were not so easy to 3D-print, and needed some tweaking and adjustments to suit my needs.

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The bases I'm basing them on did I also find for free on Thingiverse. They were originally made as 'Bolt Action' bases, but I just resized them to fit the Apes.
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After basing them, they were ready for some priming. I just used inexpensive mat black from a rattle can from the car shop.
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Just primed they looked almost ready for the gaming table already as they don't require an elaborate paint job.
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Not a very complicated 'scheme' on these miniatures; How they look after they got a basic coat of paint:
Workbench updates on The Hobby Blog for Model railways, Wargaming and Military modelling. Creating an ape army
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Washing them with a brownish wash, drybrushing them and texturing the bases really brings out their details.
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My intention was to 3D-print some spears for them from a 28mm 'weapon-pack' on Thingiverse, but I suppose primates like these would only have very simple spears just made of wood. In the grocery store I found such spears made of the real thing and just about the right scale. Since you just can't buy a few 'coctail sticks' I've got enough to arm a battalion. The spears was given a coat of 'brown wash'.
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Bringing it all toghether. I don't think these look too bad considered they are 3D-printed on a FDM printer on not a 'resin printer'.
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Another unfinished project from the 'January workbench' is the 'piece of crumbled paper'. Now I finally got around to paint it, so now it's somewhat more obvious what it is and what it's hiding:
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Friday, February 23, 2024

A leaked battle report of a classified skirmish occurred during "Operation Highjump"

A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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Earlier this year I bought a lot of minitures, most of them being Airfix copies. As 'knock offs' they are smaller than their originals, but in this lot there was even some smaller figures closer to 40mm or 0-scale in model railway terms. These are notably smaller than the figures I usually use for (war-) gaming, and they were not so numerous in the lot I bought, so I decided to use these smaller figures for 'other small projects' not requiring a whole army.

A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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It has snowed heavily in Norway this winter and I've been running some military garden railways in the snow, so I'd thought I would try to do some casual wargaming in the garden in the snow too. There has been a lot of snow and very cold this winter so I thought I had plenty of time to arrange this game, but the last couple of weeks have been 'warmer' and rainy so the snow started to melt rapidly. So I had to speed up giving this priority over some other projects, and 3D-print the bits and pieces needed for this game as quick as possible in low resolution and without preferred finishing touches for a smoother surface on them except for some paint. I didn't know at the time that the winter returned with heavy snowfall and cold weather again. 

The 40mm-ish figures from the lot I'll use for this game are German and American infantry, and was given a simple paintjob.

I 3D-printed a couple of vehicles (so my miniatures can travel on snow) and a Bunker entrance to go along with the figures for this wargame.

A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
The USMC reconnaissance team
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A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
The Gebirgsjäger squad and their bunkers
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I've always had a soft spot for 1 BC (One Brain Cell) Toy Soldier Rules by Pete Kautz and it's been a while since I played them, so I decided to use them with the advanced options for a small skirmish only needing a few miniatures for a game that could be located in a cold, icey and snowy terrain. They are obvious popular rules and my blogpost on them are the second most viewed on this blog.

These are great rules, but some 'house rules' seemed necessary for this game. I know 1 BC Toy Soldier Rules doesn't include vehicles,  so I just treated mine as a 'unit' according to the rules, but with 3 times the move of a trooper. The vehicles act as a transport, cover and a 'stationary HMG'. These rules have no rules for SMGs so I gave them a firing-range between pistol and rifle, 16'', and letting them roll 2 dice.

The Scenario

I've placed this scenario to 1946 and "Operation Highjump", which was a major American exercise in (Ant-) Arctic warfare and establishment of the Antarctic research base 'Little America'. Conspiracy theories claims that it was an offensive operation to fight secret nazi bases established in the Antarctic at the very end of WW2.

During the operation a maritime reconnaissance plane observed some odd shapes on the ground deep inland Antarctica, but couldn't get a clear view of it. To further examine this strange observation, a Marine reconnaissance-patrol of 8 members are sent in with 2 M29 Weasels (one of them with a HMG) for closer observation and further investigation. They'll fight as 2 fireteams of 4 each (as a Weasel can only carry 4 persons).
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
The aerial photo which demands a cliser look
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When approaching their object, the Marine reconnaissance-patrol are unaware that they also enters the line of sight and fire-range from a hidden and dug-in German Gebirgsjäger squad from the Neuschwabenland Division, guarding the entrance to an underground facility. The German squad fight as 2 fireteams; a Rifleteam of 6 and LMG-team of 3. The German squad was based upon graphics from Battle Order (which is a good website for references when building your army squad by squad).
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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The Game

The engine noise of the approaching M29 Weasels with the Marines gives away their position and alerted the German sentry in the else so quiet Antarctica, so the rest of the Gebirgsjäger squad on guard was scrambled into their fortified positions made by ice.
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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When approaching the coordinates for their objective, the sergeant leading the reconnaissance patrol gets careful and orders the HMG armed Weasel to drive up and secure an ice pass in front of them...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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...When entering the ice pass the HMG armed Weasel are met by intense fire, and get pinned there as some Marines go down...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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...Luckily their HMG is still operative, so it starts to return fire and secure the second fireteam's advance into the ice pass.
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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Even if they are under heavy fire, the Gebirgsjäger rifle team holds their battle stance, and even takes down a couple of more Marines. But they don't manage to take out the American HMG...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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...- Which starts to take a toll on the Gebirgsjägers. Fortifications made by (hard) ice can be effective, but the 12,7mm HMG effectively starts 'chewing up' the ice-cover piece by piece, taking out Gebirgsjägers...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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...- after Gebirgsjägers...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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The Gebirgsjäger rifle team has no support of their LMG team as the Marines are too far away for it to be effective. Soon the German rifle team has lost so many members that their morale finally fails. I know the the rules says that remaining miniatures should be removed from the game, but we're in middle of Antarctica and there are no places to escape. So I just make them retreat to their Bunker entrance, which would be a 'safe zone' for them. The other Marine team exploits the German retreat and pursues the retreating forces. This was not a tactical success for the Marines...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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...The German Feldwebel is the last one of his rifle team, and he just empty his magazine against those following Americans, killing one and dazed another.
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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When the American corporal recovers again, he finish off the Feldwebel, But now he comes under fire from the German LMG team. The American HMG returns fire, but doesn't hit very well as the Germans are in a heavily fortified position.
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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The USMC reconnaissance patrol are so reduced by this time, and their HMG has problem hitting the LMG team in the fortified position, so they decides to pull out...
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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... - and report their observations to HQ, so they can send in 'the cavalry' next time. They had to leave one fully functional M29 Weasel behind to the Germans though.
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.
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Conclusion 

I guess it was a partial victory for the Germans as they managed to defend their bunker entrance, and partially an American victory as they managed to return to their own lines and report about their observarions and small skirmish to their HQ. -Their report was never known to the public tough, and probably classified as a lot of other things about this operation. Probably the Americans returned with a larger force. Operation Highjump lasted for 6 mounths which is pretty long time for an exercise...

This little game was a quickie, just taking 45 minutes to play 10 turns. Keep in mind if you want to game outside in the snow, that it's wet and cold so:
  • Seal your miniatures before bringing them out in such conditions.
  • Have some sort of dice tray.
  • Laminate your rules.
  • Let your miniatures dry thoroughly before putting them back in storage.
  • Remember warm clothing...
  • ...and something hot in your cup (!)
A battle report of a free wargame rule you can play with army men. 1 braincell wargame by Pete Kautz. Wargaming operation highjump 1946.

Enjoy!

Friday, February 9, 2024

From LGB 'ToyTrain System' to G-scale Heeresfeldbahn rollingstock


How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

To expand my large-scale Heeresfeldbahn beyond the 3 wagons Incuded in the starterset, I found some inexpensive goods-wagons from the LGB's ToyTrain line. They were very colorfull and like the name indicated, toylike and needed to be 'militarized' to suit my purpose.

How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

I've also been upgrading my aged FlashForge Finder 3D-printer to a FlashForge Adventurer 3 recently, and it really improved the overall print quality I think. Even if I bought it second hand, the new printer is very much value for money and are not very expensive even if you goes for a completely new one. Being goods-wagons, I tink they needed to be loaded with some 'military-goods', so to break my new 3D-printer in and get to know it, I printed some items to use as loads:
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

Despite of LGB's general 1:22,5 scale, my locomotives are built to 1:19th scale. Vehicles in 1:19 scale are rare and very expensive. 1:18 vehicles are more common and close enough in scale. Too bad many diecast cars in 1:18th scale are also usually very pricey, and especially military ones, but I found a couple of 1:18th scale toycars second hand I got for just about $69/£54 together. Despite being slightly over-scale, postwar and their civilian appearance, the very same type of vehicles were used by German forces during WWII (even on the eastern front), so they'll make a suitable loads in 16mm with new paintjobs.
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

While working on this project, I also found a cheap 1:18th scale BMW motorcycle for only $11. As the cars, it is actually a post war model but looks very like the older models used in WWII. I'll see if I can give it a convincing backdating as well.
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

This was very colorful so new paint was needed. It only came with 4 stakes when I bought it, so I kept it that way so it would look slightly different from the other wagons of the same type. I just re-positioned them. I placed the motorcycle pictured above as a load after cutting the windscreen away, changing the seat with some 3D-printed ones and painting it 'German Grey'.
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

This is the same car as the previous, but I think the numbers of stakes looked a bit 'overkill'. Perhaps it's needed if carrying long loads like logs etc. but for these smaller loads I thinks it's looked better if I removed some of the stakes. The observant reader may notice some 3D-printed parts for a Kettenkrad in this blogpost's 3rd photo. It was originally a 28mm wargame model I just resized to 1:19th scale, printed, painted and added some few more details to it. 8345 Kettenkrads was made during WWII. Did I mention I like motorcycles??
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

This wagon is just repainted and had one of the repainted 1:18 dicast car loaded to it. My Heeresfeldbahn rake looks like it's 'just been primed' or like '50 shades of grey' so I decided to add some 'kind of more color' to it, by giving the vehicles some different colors than the 'standard grey'. Some 688 VW 82/E Geländekäfer; Beetle body on Kübelwagen chassis were made for the German armed forces. 
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
This is exactly the same type of wagon as the previous one, so to make it slightly different I made it look revised and a 'modernized' version of the former by changing from spoked to disc-wheels and giving it a more refreshed grey-paintjob not looking so aged as the previous. Actually I did almost no weathering to it at all, and when bringing it to running sessions I was frecently asked when I was going to finish it. - So I gave it a dirty, brownish wash, just to tone the 'fresh grey' down. It's also had one of the 1:18th scale toycars added as a load after being repainted to suitable colors. Citroën Traction Avant was an innovative vehicle with front wheel drive and ground clearance enough to see service with the French army, Wehrmacht and The French resistance. Beside those vehicles seized by Wehrmacht after occupying France in 1940, another 4722 Citroën Tractions was built for Wehrmacht service, and they saw service on all fronts including in Stalingrad. Between 1934 - 1957 more than 760 000 were built in total. 
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
I think this looks like an old wagon and to 'backdating it' I changed the disc-wheels with spoked ones, as trying to paint it to an aged look. I have a friend who is facinated by open cars with figures placed in them often suggested to be partying and similar. I'm not sure if this is 'a thing', but such wagons can often be found on G-scale layouts on model railway exhibitions we have been visiting (mostly in Germany). As this is a German train and I'm often visiting this friend for running sessions in his garden, I would try to make such a theme in this open wagon as well trying to make it suitable for the train, theme and period though. Their pets, the black cats, are a homage to our own pets 'Svarten' and 'Sofus'.
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock

Lesson learned and a warning...

When repainting the VW and Citroën I wanted to recreate a feeling of spraypainting with 'soft edges' in the camouflagepattern. To do this I used 'soft' modeling-clay as a mask to shape the camouflagepattern and spraypaint it with rattlecans (as this will give soft edges). So far, so good:
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstockHow to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
When removing the mask I saw that the edges had the soft effect I wanted, but it was a complete disaster!! The modeling clay had reacted with the paint beneath, so it become wet again, transparent, very sticky and the paint job was completely ruined. The paint didn't reharden either. Before trying to recover the errors I tried to 'seal' it by overspraying the model with a matt varnish, but it did not help; all the painted areas which had been covered by the modeling clay were still very sticky, and I was afraid the models was ruined. To try to save them, I sanded their surfaces until they didn't feel sticky anymore. Then I just primed them again and used brushes and acrylics for the camouflage.
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
So note to self, and don't do the same mistake as me; modeling clay does not work very well for painting masks. It made me search info if some modeling clay that would, but I didn't find any. Even Playdough doesn't seems to work acording to what I've seen online. Have you any experiences of what's working, or any other suggestions to get a spraypainted finnish without using an airbrush?

This project has taken a lot longer time that I expected it to, but finally my G-scale LGB Heeresfeldbahn rake slowly keeps growing...
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
How to easily turn colorful and toy like LGB wagons into G-scale military Herresfeldbahn rollingstock
My LGB Heeresfeldbahn so far with the original starterset + the 5 wagons described in this blogpost.
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It's been a lot of trains lately, so next blogpost will be about wargaming. A battle report perhaps? Sign up and follow this blog and find out.


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