In January, I finished to paint other German miniatures of the Ww2. It
was the first time I painted winter uniforms and, generally, I don’t like to
use light colors (the white in particular) because I think that it is hard to
give the correct shade.
As usual I sought original photos to use to reproduce
the correct effect, so below I posted some of these photos inserting them
between my miniatures.
All miniatures arrive from various Italeri boxes but there are aso some
Zvezda miniatures. The scale is 20mm for all.
Below, in the first and third photo, there are some Waffen SS troops
(may be 3 SS Panzer Division Totenkopf) during the Operation Konrad near
Hungarian borders (Jan 20, 1945). The other two pictures show my miniatures in
action between wrecked houses and near a church
I painted also some soldiers in white uniform used during the cold
periods (Ardenne, Russia) and, for the uniforms shading, I used as example the
photo of this exhausted German volksgrenadier at Stalingrad (Dec 1942)
Using Zvezda miniatures I prepared an MMG and the command group
A part of my miniatures (as well as the command group) wore camouflage
uniforms. The camouflage pattern is the "Oak leaf" (1943) as the as
the one used by these men of 3 SS Panzer division Totenkopf during operation
Barbarossa in July 1941. I want point out that tanks in the photos are not painted
by me but by one of my club mates (Alberto F.).
