Finally Starting Flames of War

What's this? You're waiting for a blog post for ages and two come along in the same day. So the past week I've been putting the finishing touches to my first Flames of War list. With the help of the historical guys at NAG I've chopped and changed to finally decide on the 12th Volksgrenadierkompanie from the NUTS! Book. A big decision of this was the winter Germans, I love all the models that have been released and cannot wait to get painting the winter uniforms and snow effects.

First Purchases Are Made!

I'll be splitting the purchases up over the next couple of months, so far the Volksgrenadier Company box set and Flak43s have been ordered and arrived yesterday. Last night I took the plunge and ordered all the paints I need for the Volks, mainly winter camo and splinter camo which at 15mm is going to be putting me right to the test. I've decided to base all of my models on Urban ruins from Kerr&King hopefully I can get some really good looking pieces with Pak40s hiding in the ruins of a building. At the moment I've ordered bases which will be enough for the whole Volks Company and FlaK43 unit.

Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Infantry Goodness

With the weather being miserable at the moment I've had a bit of a tough time priming anything, I've got 40 Saurus Warriors that have been prepped in my spraying box for the past fortnight and they're still plastic and hidden away in the wardrobe. Though I used the GW Imperial Black Primer Pot on a Pak40 from the Open Fire! Box Set to see what the results were. Thankfully with the size of the models it's alot easier to paint on and prime the models like this so I can see getting some of the Volks primed and painted like that while the weather is bad.

Here's the list I've got sorted, thanks to the Historical guys from NAG who gave me a helping hand.

Confident    Veteran	Volksgrenadierkompanie (12.) People's Grenadier Company	German Late-War
Infantry Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Volksgrenadierkompanie HQ (12.)  p.47	2 3	Cmd Panzerfaust Assault Rifle team Panzerschreck team	155
Combat Platoons
Volksgrenadier Sturm Platoon (12.)  p.47	1 4 2 1	Cmd Panzerfaust Assault Rifle team Panzerfaust Assault Rifle team Panzerfaust MG team Panzerschreck team	295
Volksgrenadier Schützen Platoon (12.)  p.47	1 6 1	Cmd Panzerfaust Rifle/MG team Panzerfaust Rifle/MG team Panzerschreck team	245
Weapons Platoons
Volks Infantry Gun Platoon (12.)  p.48	1 1 4	Cmd SMG team Observer Rifle team 7.5cm IG37 gun	120
Volks Machine-gun Platoon (12.)  p.49	1 4	Cmd Panzerfaust SMG team MG42 HMG	145
Divisional Support
Volks Tank-hunter Platoon (12.)  p.50	4	StuG G or StuG IV	380
Volks Anti-tank Gun Platoon (12.)  p.50	1 3	Cmd SMG team 7.5cm PaK40 gun	155
Volks Anti-aircraft Gun Platoon (12.)  p.51	1 3	Cmd SMG team 3.7cm Flak43 gun	100
Volks Light Artillery Battery (12.)  p.52	1 1 1 3	Cmd SMG team Staff team Observer Rifle team 10.5cm leFH18/40 howitzer	155
Company Points:			1750

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Source document: Nuts Book