2nd Platoon of Finnish Infantry

 

I've recently finished (urge to pun rising...rising!) another platoon of Finnish infantry to go along with the first. I think paint job on these came out a little better. When painting infantry in the past, I think I've relied too heavily on dry brushing and washes. One of my goals with this Finnish force is to up my blending skills. 

Still need to try and keep the edges of the base clean

Tried some vertical sticks for blasted trunks.

Here's my steps for painting the white camo on the infantry:

1. Base coat with Vallejo USN L. Ghost Grey 74.615 Surface Primer
2. Bash with 1:1 mix of Nuln Oil and Lahmian Medium
3. Highlight with Vallejo Sky Grey 70.989 (basically same color as base coat)
4. Highlight with Vallejo White 70.951

This trunk is supposed to look like just the bottom part of a full tree.

 

Go get 'em boys!

 

 

I've also further refined the new snow basing technique using foam putty. Tutorial on this will be the next topic. 

 

The Finnish force so far...

Krieg

 About a year ago I got a hold of a Death Korps of Krieg command squad. I was able to find them for a good deal and figured it might be fun to paint. During quarantine, I dug them out and painted them up. 

I went with traditional Kreig colors. Coats are light blue while the armor is green.

I experimented with WW1 style camo on the helmets. Not a fan of that plasma glow - might redo it...

The bases came out looking great!

Finnish T-28 Platoon

Just completed this platoon of Finnish T-28s.

The finished Finnish platoon. Sorry.

These came to be as part of a trade deal on Facebook. They had been partially assembled and required quite a bit of cleaning up due to the previous owner lavishing superglue and epoxy on them.

This the the inspiration for the camo scheme. There are several other pictures of this particular tank floating around. I took some create liberty in adding the blue stripes all the way down the hull.

Command tank. Still needs crew. I'll probably do a big batch of those later. This particular model was heavily damaged. Some of that snow on the tracks is actually large globs of glue or epoxy painted white.

Send tank. Snow on the treads came out looking really good on this one!

3rd Tank.

4th Tank. I used more of a sponge chip on this one, but thought it looked a little too much. The other three were done with very careful dry-brushing.

Details of tracks with snow.

One hull had a big chunk missing from a corner.

This one was also in bad shape before I cleaned it up.

I'm very pleased with how the snow came out on these. I'll write up a tutorial when I do the next batch of Finnish tanks - probably T-26s.