Getting Zona Alfa to the tabbletop
Basecoat
Was going to use the airbrush to lay down the basecoat – 71.092 Vallejo medium olive but I knackered the airbrush when striping & cleaning it for the first time by managing to break the 0.3 nozzle so I’ve had to order a spare.
This meant I had to break out the paint brushes to basecoat the model, this required a couple of coats since I’ve only got Vallejo model air paints in the colours I wanted to use. This was on the trousers, uniform jackets and coveralls on the snipers & the non furry parts on the ushankas (hats).
Most of the fur on the ushankas was then painted with 71.043 olive drab along with some of the gloves – not sure about this colour the fur isn’t really standing out so I might change this.
I left the boots, woolly hats, ski masks & guns in the black undercoat though I will probably go over them later.
Some of the models appear to be wearing coats and possibly smocks (they fasten together at the crotch & sort of remind me of fallschirmjager) these were painted 71.018 Cam Black Green to give some contrast. Some of the gloves and scarves on these models were painted with the medium olive.
The helmets, webbing/belts/holsters and the rocket launchers were painted with 70.890 reflective green and I have to admit it doesn’t really look any different to the medium olive.
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