Born in 1906, Harmel volunteered for the SS-Verfügungstruppe (later known as the Waffen-SS) in 1935 and served as a company commander in the SS-Regiment “Der Führer”, with which he took part in the Battle of France in 1940. In 1941, he took part in the Balkans Campaign and Operation Barbarossa. In December 1941, he took […]
Author: Thomas Stoesser
Quick shots from the workbench: Jedi Puppies in WW2 camouflage
Sometime last year I had promised to work on tutorials for painting different German camouflage patterns and here you can see a few pre-view pics of the work that I am doing for the first tutorial on Autumn Palmtree pattern (Palmenmuster) and Autumn pea dot pattern (Erbsenmuster). I thought it would be fun to piggyback […]
Painting Liudmylla… step-by-step
As this miniature was started as part of a painting jam with a few friends in my basement, I didn’t take any pictures of the first steps, except the first one below. At this stage I had painted most of the face already and I had applied a thin layer of Russian Green for the […]
Step-by-Step… painting Canadian Highlander Harold
Before I dive into this new step-by-step article, let me point out that there are A LOT of similarities between the way how I painted up Harold and how I painted up Roy. So feel free to take a look at the step-by-step for Roy as well, as I might be going into more details […]
Lots of updates and new stuff (Crisis, new logo, new miniatures, new resellers and lot of other things)
Right, let’s see. The last update on my blog happened about 4 weeks ago and it’s not like nothing happened in the meantime. If you follow my page on Facebook, you have already seen a lot of what has happened in the past month. I don’t want to discriminate the non-Facebook internet users, so let’s […]
Meet the Heroes: Major Harry Carlyle and Lt. Col. John Frost
If my readership hasn’t noticed it yet, I am a huge fan of old WW2 movies. 😉 One of the funniest scenes from one of my favorite films is this one here. [an SS officer is approaching under a white flag] Major Harry Carlyle: Rather interesting development, sir. [to the German] Major Harry Carlyle: That’s […]
Stoessi’s US Airborne army @ Scale Model Challenge
This was my entry for the “Armies on display” competition at Scale Model Challenge. Finished the display board really last minute and had less then a week to get from zero to done.Really happy that I took a bronze medal home for my little army. One more interesting fact of my trip to Eindhoven was […]
Step-by-step…. painting US Officer Drumpf
While I was on holiday in Italy with my wife, there were a few days of rain and that meant using the brushes and colors that I had brought along. 🙂 Donny Drumpf was chosen as the next target and off we go: I started off with the Khaki-Yellowish uniform with the following colors: MC887 […]
Step-by-step… painting Hans
Started with a German Grey base color. Well diluted… should take a couple of layers to cover. The way I am applying the color is to drag the diluted paint across the area where I am painting and to push that small drop of paint into a fold or a corner or something where the […]
Step-by-step…. painting Roy
So Roy is the first miniature from Wave 2 which I decided to paint. Such a lovely sculpt and a lot of fun while painting. Here is a step-by-step for how I tried to make Roy come to life: 1) Started off with a base of Green Brown (MC879) and Green Ochre (MC914). Mixed in […]