Wings of War: more planes for the grist.

Two more plane re-paints for our lunch time Wings of War campaign.

George Von Hautelmann

The first was an easy job, for one of my workmates. Taking Shafer's Dr. VII , I cleaned it up, put a wash on the red, repainted guns and engine, then repainted the "perriwinkle" tail to a truer blue. then I painted in the skull and cross bones.

Freidrich Sternberg

I saw this "fictionally historic" plane and ace while watching the latest Red Baron movie.  According to the end of the movie text, several Jewish pilots flew for the Germany in WW1, many of them were aces. Sternberg's plane was an homage to them.

This was a bit more challenging. Repainted the wood grain, reproduced and cleaned up the lozenge cammo pattern on the tail, and added all the black, stars, and the star of David. Sternberg's tail had some writing on it but I could not see exactly what it said, so I went with La'chaim, or to life!

 

I added the ball and pivot magnet. I like the way these work.  I got them here, as well as the smoke and fire markers, which I totally reccomend

 http://mobowow.powweb.com/store/page4.html
This plane still needs a "spinning" prop.

Fur ball over no man's land. The Allied Anti aircraft guns has hit a Roland.!

Werner Voss

The very first plane model I ever built was a Revell's Werner Voss' Fokker Dr 1 Triplane. He has kinda been my personal Ace hero; it may just be because our names are similar, or maybe I just love his plane colors. 

It made perfect sense to me that the first wings of war conversion I did was to paint up Voss' triplane.

Voss in Flight. Much debate on his actual paint color schemes. I decided to split the difference and paint my version as cool as possible!

Top view with painted card to match

Front view. Propeller is made of blister pack plastic, with gloss medium and a bit of brown paint for the prop blur.

Wings of War

During lunch at work, I have started a Wings of War campaign. I love these rules, as they are very fast, fairly clean, and the game is quite aesthetic with plenty of room to expand to taste.

I wanted to paint up a really detailed “birds eye view” of the trenches, but as I was limited on time, I decided to do a map, based on an old map from the Red Baron 2 video game. This took about 3 hours over all, and I think it came out pretty well.

A portion of the  game mat with the original map, from which I took the design. Note the demarked Allied and German air bases on each side of no man's land. We use these for starting positions.