Ostfront '49

[streetkern]

After lurking for many years, decided time to start posting and take the jumble of half-finished germans, soviets, bits of terrain, conversions and other ideas and turn then into something playable / finished. The overall aim is a 4' x 4' table with decent terrain and 3 small german, soviet and british forces. I've not actually played a game in 20 years so this thread will (hopefully) focus more on painting / converting / collecting.

First up are a SOTR German Squad and Command. These still need to be varnished (suggestions welcome for a mat varnish) and I see the top of the Lt. gun has gone missing which needs fixing.

Next on the list is rebasing some soviets

[Ballardian]

Very nice! Both Windsor & Newton & Tamiya (rattlecans) are good & Vallejo has always worked for me.

[streetkern]

Cheers Ballardian - thanks for the varnish recommendations

[ImperialMagnus]

The camo is very reminiscent of pea dot camo, models look great!

[discok3]

Used to play this game and I do like the models especially when they're painted like this.Cracking brushwork and not bad for a lurker

[Harwood Hobbies]

OMG!  That is an excellent camo scheme and I really like the colour of the gas masks - I may have to steal that for my minis!   

Are you going to stick with SOTR or do some DUST minis as well?

[Giger]

The miniatures look great, as for varnish I use Ronseal Matte for the initial layer then go over it with anti-shine varnish.

[streetkern]

Thanks for the kind words & suggestions all

The pea dot camp is based on these lovely Late War SS from Tom Weiss  

Are you going to stick with SOTR or do some DUST minis as well?

@Harwood Hobbies
Have some dust in the mix - 6 steel guard for my Russians as well as a US walker. Not really a fan of the DUST infantry but maybe some special characters? Have some Viridian snipers (WIP below) and plan is a bit of mix and match across ranges including 1:48 scale - whatever works really. Hopefully some scratch built vehicles too.

Not a great photo - WIP Russian snipers

[Burnin Coal]

Lovely brushwork here....am always envious of those who can paint camouflage and those figures of yours really look the part...I look forward to seeing more

[Glenn]

fabulous stuff once more

excellent tones and contrasts

i am soooooo jealous 

[streetkern]

Thanks for the kind words, motivating!

The Russians are going slow - rebasing about 18 of them. Lots of additional highlights & tidy up needed so hard to get motivated to finish them off. However I did get the female sniper done.



Feeling a bit bored I started on my British Indian / Sikh Army - test mini below (with Westwind SOTR Para body and Meridian Miniatures head). Cant recommend the heads enough - lovely sculpts and v crisp casting.

A bit dark maybe but the main thing is I want it to fit within the overall tone of the other armies while including blue palette. The plan is for a small army with 1 rifle squad, command, mounted lancers (engineers with mad max style explosives on sticks) and a big blue four-armed Mech.



Onwards!
- SK

[streetkern]

Light Mech for my Russians which has been a real joy to paint and got me back on track after a few quiet months. It is a bit factory fresh but may add some markings / peeled paint / battle damage in time). I have 6 of these in total (3 regular steel guard and 3 command) and would definitely get more if Dust had it's act together. Not sure whether to go 2 squads of 3 (which fits in SOTR rules) or a squad of 5 with the last one converted into some kind of hero?



Other housekeeping bits like undercoating all the Indians & rebasing some squads. Plus getting distracted by new armies...

[Harwood Hobbies]

Loving the light mech!  I'll have to get some of those.   

Definitely factory fresh - I'd love to see it with some decals and battle damage weathering, to give it some personality.   

[von Lucky]

Some very nice miniatures - that's a very cool green you've managed there with the dead leaves on the base.

[Ballardian]

Nice work on the mechs, the lenses/lights are particularly good.