Dust – Heavy Flak Grenadiers

Late spring a new Kickstarter appeared, Dust: Operation Babylon. I knew my pal Thomas had bought into the system earlier, and asked him about it. He said something like “Let’s play a game”, and I’m sure he grinned evilly saying that…

That's an awful lot of enemies. I'm not sure this really works...

Said and done, we had a short and fun game of Dust Warfare over a couple of beers. It turned out this is a good beer and pretzels type of game and I rather enjoyed it. Figures are really nice. Fun theme. What’s not to like?

I jumped into the Kickstarter. Laffe (also grinning evilly) dumped his bought-but-not-played-with minis on me, as did one of his pals.

So I suddenly had a bunch of minis and more to come from the Kickstarter (very, very late. They were supposed to deliver in August, still nothing…)

I needed some respite from Brimstone figures and especially the Night Stranglers, so the first unit hit the painting table – Heavy Flak Grenadiers.

These are heavily armoured troops wielding Fliegerfausts, a real weapon used sparingly in the very last days of the short-lived 3^rd Reich. In Dust the year is 1947 and the Axis troops are de-nazified.

Anyway, to have a chance of ever getting painted models on the gaming table I decided to go for simple paint-schemes – no camo-smocks or anything fancy.

Paints used:

Armour – Vallejo 995 German Grey drybrushed with 992 Neutral Grey

Cloth – 830 German Fieldgrey WWII washed with Army Painter Dark Tone ink

Fliegerfausts – 920 German Uniform washed with AP Dark Tone

Chinstraps – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Tubing – 836 London Grey

I haven’t done anything with the bases as I intend to base all my Dust figures on clear bases from Sally 4^th, but I have to order them first.

A fast paintjob, done in little more than an evening. More Dust figures will appear shortly.