Fallschirmjager

These are some older pics of my first army. I built a Late war (Festung Europa) FJ Kompanie. I've since changed my painitng style for FJs but I still think these hold up. It took me a LONG time to paint these.

To the right here is one of my platoon command stands armed with SMGs with panzerfaust.

This is one team of my 12cm mortar platoon and one of the Spotter teams.

These are a pair or Marder IIIs. They were fun to build and paint though I painted them in a semi "Ambush" pattern which would be wrong for the time period. I think they look good though.

A pair of Stug IIIs with 75mm L48s. I'm building two more, one with the 10.5cm option as I think they are under rated. I was not happy with the way the decals came out. since these pics were taken I fixed the decal issue.

First Post!!

Hey folks,

Max here welcome to my Fire For Effect! web-blog thingy. This blog is for me to rant and rave about my current hobby.

My love for miniature wargaming started back in 1984 when I attended a model/game convention in Pasadena, California. I grew up with my father, and my hero, who built 1/35th and 1/72nd scale military models (mostly military vehicles) and is a huge WWII military history enthusiast. I remember building my frist model at the age of 7 and continuing thru high school until other interests, and lack of time, got in the way.

That fateful day in 1984 pretty much cemented my love for wargaming. Mr. Steve Lorenz was running a intro game to his fantastic “PANZER WAR” rules in 1/285^th scale. The miniatures, the terrain, everything had me hooked.

Today, some 30 years later, I’ve moved up to 15mm but still pretty much play WWII. In 2006 I picked up my first Battlefront miniatures and a rulebook for “FLAMES OF WAR”. While the rules are “OK” I prefer other rule sets. With the popularity of FOW it is difficult to get players to try different rulesets, even if you don’t have to re-base.

Well that is all for the first post. Enjoy my blog!!

Max