Monday, November 3, 2025

Some More Battlefront Pzkpfw. IVs

Well there seemed to be little interest on my post about military watches (thanks for the comment though Greg!) so it's back to wargames figures... you guys must be heartily sick of seeing Afrika Korps armour but we're getting towards the end here, I promise. These are the last three tanks to be painted for the DAK as I've got no more bare plastic to assemble.

As you can see there are two "Mark IV Specials" equipped with the long 75mm KwK 40 L/43. This was temporarily designated by the Germans as the "Ausf. F2" and was the scourge of the desert!

The tanks were painted with a basecoat of XV88 overpainted with Tallarn Sand, then washed Agrax Earthshade and re-highlighted with Tallarn. Decals were then applied and some chipping done with German Camo Black Brown.

I might paint some armoured cars or halftracks and trucks for the DAK, but that's it for tanks, I promise.

Heia Safari!