David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Sunday 5 June 2022

The Russians are coming!

 Albeit rather more slowly than I'd like! They are for the Cold War Gone Hot project and are from the Plastic Soldier Company's small 15mm range, the box being rather blandly titled 'Cold War Soviet Infantry'.

I purchase these, I think, at Hammerhead 2018 so they have lain in the Pimple for over four years to reach the painting desk. {As an aside I recently ordered a box of the same company's T55 Soviet tanks to supplement the force, but they are some way off getting any attention yet!} The box contains, it says, 141 figures. I've not counted them myself! I've finished another four bases worth since I took the picture, so 40 figures are done. 
After cutting them from the sprue and filing off any small pieces of remnants I sprayed them white. They were fixed in 4s to my Warbases 60mm hexagonal bases with white tack and then washed with GW's Agrax Earth wash. For those interested in such things this helps me first to hold figures relatively pain free and second to see what I'm trying to paint! The uniform colour I chose at Partizan from Great Escape Games is AK11370, from the afv series,  Russian Sand. It is a light brown with a hint of green and is close enough for me in 15mm! I hope to finish the remaining figures now they are all prepped by the end of the month, but presently I'm distracted by the Empress Miniatures' mounted Lakshmi Bai figures! More on both as and when ...


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  1. Splendid progress on the wee Russki. They will certainly do. That colour works a treat, I have some AB Russians to paint I may just order a pot.

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    1. That's very kind Phil. If you wait a bit you can have my pot.

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  2. They look very nice and I've always preferred the Summer uniform colour to the greener Winter one.

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  3. Well done David they look the part!

    Christopher

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  4. Fine looking Russians David…
    The colour has worked really well…
    I have a few of the AK paints… I’ve only done some tests with them but they do seem to cover quite well…

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you Aly. I am impressed by the paint, but one swallow does not a summer make. I'd need to see more to be confident but mixes in pot well and covers really well

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  5. The beginnings of the steamroller, nice troops. AK seem to be taking a hold recently, saw a lot of them at Partizan.

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    1. It's definitely steam powered, this roller, and the boiler needs more stoking!

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  6. They look great Dave! Coming on a treat! No need at all for any of the apprehension about painting the smaller scale! Great job....

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  7. Lovely progress David they look suitably Russian to me 👍

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