Under Fire Miniatures Cold War Soviet Infantry - first four figures

This is the first Under Fire Cold War Soviet figure completed.

As mentioned previously, these figures are being painted up for Twilight 2000 skirmish games, so have had a few modifications - such as the boots and trousers.

The uniform is spray painted with PSC British tank Green. The figure was dry brushed with Citadel Nurgling Green. The helmet is Vallejo German Extra Dark Green. Camouflage spots are Citadel Zandri Dust.

A rifleman armed with an AK-74.

He has had an additional bag added from Greenstuff.

Some additional firepower in the form of a belt fed PKM machine-gun.

And more firepower, another PKM machine-gun.

He has had a grey blanket added, maybe he gets cold.

 And a shot of the four figures.

Now to order some more so I have a complete section.

Under Fire Miniatures Cold War Soviet Infantry

This is the first Under Fire Cold War Soviet figure completed.

As mentioned previously, these figures are being painted up for Twilight 2000 skirmish games, so have had a few modifications - such as the boots and trousers. The NCO has also had a head transplant, using the wooly hat head from Empress Miniatures.

Base colour is PSC British Tank spray (over Citadel Chaos Black spray). The woolly hat is Citadel Caliban Green. The rucksack is Citadel Castellan Green. Jacket camouflage is Citadel Steel Legion Drab followed by smaller splurges of Citadel Zandri Dust. Trousers have a camouflage of Zandri Dust and Vallejo German Camouflage Black Brown, The scarf is Citadel Zandri Dust. The figure was dry brushed with Citadel Dry Brush Nurgling Green. The "woodwork" of the gun is Citadel Mourning Brown. Green areas were washed with Citadel Athonian Camoshade, brown areas with Citadel Agrax Earhshade.

He also has a rucksack, from the Rubicon Allied Stowage Set 1.

The rucksack model is sitting on a blob of Greenstuff to complete the pack.

The NCO has a pair of "borrowed" camouflaged trousers, with a jacket with a KLMK style pattern.

Under Fire Miniatures Cold War Soviet Infantry

One of the effects of throwing Instant Sunshine around is a requirement for new trousers.

The Under Fire Miniatures Cold War Soviet figures are dressed in the correct trousers with the uncomfortable high boots. This is fine for troops at the outbreak of war, after a few years, the parade ground uniform will undergo some modification.

The first thing was to use a small length of greenstuff on each boot which was sculpted with a knife blade to form laces. Once that was set, more greenstuff was used to restyle the trouser cuffs.

An additional bag was added to the belt, again using greenstuff.

The base still needs to be sculpted with Milliput.

Colour Detailers

While having a reading another blog, I thought this was interesting, from the Maelstrom's Edge blog.

The article is about adding green stuff gas masks to figures (SF rather than historical) but the writer uses tools he refers to as "silicon clay shapers" or "colour shapers".

Now my local The Works (suppliers of cheap books, hobby supplies and tat) offer something which looks just the ticket.

Looking like silicon rubber paint brushes, it is claimed they do not stick to green stuff and hence can be used to sculpt green stuff before it sets.

We shall see.