Here's the first figures I've painted of the Baker Company
Winter War Kickstarter. It's a LMG squad which consists of 7 soldiers, including a NCO and a gunner carrying the Lahti-Saloranta pikakivääri (a light machine gun). You'll notice I've mistakenly painted all their hands bare even though I now think they're supposed to be wearing gloves. They're going to get some frostbites for sure!
I wanted to do some dirt on the soldiers' snow camos since they wouldn't stay snow white for long. I think I succeeded quite nicely with the Tamiya weathering master snow/soot/rust kit I have.
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| The weathering kit looks like something out of my wife's handbag but it does good work. |
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| The Lahti-Saloranta LMG |
I succeeded quite well with the bases using baking soda and PVA for snow. I wanted to contrast the dirty snow camos with some fresh, virgin snow. The texture doesn't show well on the photos because of overexposure. I haven't applied varnish yet and I'm not sure how they'll look after that but we'll see.
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| I also added some stubble on some of the soldiers' chins. These guys didn't have much time to shave. |
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| Some reference material. |
As I'm writing this the temperature outside is -28 Celsius and falling. A warm night for the veterans of the Winter War.
