World War 2 Late War Soviet Infantry Painting Tutorial | Bolt Action
September 1, 2022 by johnlyons
Check out a painting tutorial showing off how to paint a Late War Soviet Infantry miniature for your World War 2 miniature wargames. This particular miniature comes from Warlord Games' Bolt Action.
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This Soviet Infantry miniature comes armed with a PPSH-41 and also a captured German Panzerfaust. This should give you a good scheme to play around with that could be used across all sorts of Soviet miniatures from World War 2.
Paints used in this tutorial include...
- Vallejo Russian uniform WW2
- Vallejo panzer aces canvas
- Vallejo Khaki
- Scale Colour decay black
- Vallejo chocolate brown
- Citadel Kislev flesh
- Vallejo camo olive green
- Vallejo German camo beige WW2
- Citadel Darkoath flesh
- GSW wash ink ancient sepia
What do you think of the scheme?
If any army needs ‘batch painting’ it’s the Soviets. They tend to have far more bodies on the field compared to the others. :
Questions :
= early / mid / late war Soviets : is it merely equipment or should we look at other things ?
= would priming in soviet uniform green be even faster ? 🙂
= I’ve seen brown instead of soviet uniform green ? Any ideas how to do that ?
= what about army painter speed paints and similar paints for the uniform ?
As always … thanks for this 🙂
I’ll say here I am not entirely up on soviet gear. But what I see is mostly weapons changing, ppsh, and different machine guns coming into use.
Priming in soviet uniform would indeed help!
As for the brown, I think/feel that is similar to when people ask “what is the correct colour for German tunics?” There is likely a range around similar green to khaki brown.
And I’ve not used the AP speed paints to give an informed opinion on them 🙂
I’m not too worried about ‘the correct’ colour, because as you say there’s soo much variation across the war (and possibly even within the same unit … ).
I was wondering how to achieve the more khaki coloured uniform colours that they also appear to have in (some) materials.
a fantastic job on the trooper John.
Very effective. I’m currently doing some 20mm early war French for the 1940 campaign and may borrow some of the techniques from this.