As is not uncommon for me I have picked up new miniatures games over the past year or so. First up was What a Tanker! from Two Fat Lardies. My local game group ran a demo game of this at the end of 2018 where I played with a borrowed Japanese tank. It is a nice beer & pretzels ruleset that is easy to pick up and since you can play with a single model the entry cost is really reasonable.
My group talked about doing a campaign so I decided to start with a Panzer III kit from Warlord in 28mm scale as my first tank. This was the first large tank I had ever built, previously I had only done 15mm. This kit was very detailed as I expected since it is a downscaled Italeri kit but there were still more parts than I expected. This kit can be built as multiple variants including J, L, M and N.
I bought the kit in December 2018 but didn’t actually start working on it for about three months. I built mine as an Aufs. J of the 21st Panzer Division in North Africa. I went with the Gelbbraun color scheme (I used Vallejo Model Color Camo Brown 71.117 as the base). I think I want to detail the treads more and add some mud but am pretty happy with it already. I finished painting it in June 2019.
We have only played two games since then but they were fun. In the most recent game in February 2020 a combination of a very lucky roll on my part and a very unlucky roll on the part of an opponent ledt to me one-shotting his heavy Soviet tank (KV-2 maybe?) in turn two. We have played 2-3 players per side in our games which works out well.
