"HAWKs Launch 2nd Armies-4-Kids Project for H-con '15" Topic

This past Saturday, members of the HAWKs (Harford Area Weekly Kreigspielers) got together to work on painting a second Armies for Kids project for next year's Historicon. The club had already decided to do a 40mm American Civil War project for Historicon 2015 based on generous donations from Maynard Creel, Ed Mohrmann, and Phil Kearnan. And, since the ACW project was so far along, the club decided to start another quick and easy project based on a large box of assorted WWII plastic 1/72 infantry that had also been donated by Ed Mohrmann.

Hawks members Buck Surdu and Duncan Adams had spray primed the over 1500 plastic WWII figures with either khaki for Allies, or grey for Germans, and mounted them on sticks in preparation for Saturday's painting bee. And for a few hours that morning we sat around and gave basic paint jobs to about 750, mainly American, Allied infantry. After a late midday lunch break, with sore backs and cramped hands, the painters broke out the Red Dragon Inn game and played that to unwind.
For more photos and details, see my blog:
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God bless you guys! You do great work!

Thanks!

I forgot to mention, we are looking for donations of 1/72 US or German tanks to go with this project if anyone has some old ones they don't want anymore.