Team Yankee New Plastic Soviets – Painted Part One

My plan was to complete painting of these figures whilst they were still attached to the sprue to see if this was a feasible alternative to my usual mounting on lolly sticks.

So first job was to spray white primer. This had to be done in two stages (one face at a time) using my usual Wilko Matt white primer.

Once dry the basic uniform colour was applied. The colour I chose for this was Vallejo 70.880 Khaki Grey.

When this was dry an all-  over coat of Army Painter Light Tone wash was applied and left to dry. Then when dry an all-over dry-brush of Khaki Grey + White.

The figures were now ready for the details to be picked out.

• ·         Belts and weapon butt stocks – Leather Brown
• ·         Gasmask satchels and webbing straps – German Camo Beige
• ·         Buckles – Boltgun Metal
• ·         Boots – Black
• ·         Face & Hands – Flesh
• ·         Helmet – Russian Green
• ·         Facings – Red
• ·         Weapon – Black Grey
• ·         Magazine – Orange Brown

Finally the flesh areas received a Vallejo Flesh wash, the webbing a Light Tone wash and the weapon metal areas an black wash.

The bases were painted using cheap craft paint – “Coffee Bean” – which appears to perfectly match the plastic Battlefront base colour.

Now all that’s left is to tone the bases and add some flock etc.

Verdict: Nice figures to paint. Crisp detail that’s easy to pick out and benefits from washes and dry-brushing to enhance it’s appearance. It would be hard not to make a good job of these to be honest.