The Silver Bayonet - The Carpathians Castle Fier
Grenadier Leopold Moser
Primed off white the uniform had a touch up of Wraithbone and the webbing has had some Army Painter matt white highlights. The plant next to the wall is made from cuts from Deathguard Green paint pot lid dried up paint.Grenadier Leopold Moser is inspecting some broken railings. What on earth was sharp enough to damage the iron railings in such a way was beyond his comprehension. He trusted in his own steel and his own skill in battle and his own bloody-mindedness to see each mission through… But whatever did this might need something beyond guile and determination to put down.
His love for his family is what gave him strength. Not so much that what he was doing, killing monsters, was protecting them directly from the threat. Or that fighting for his nation would give them a safe peacetime to thrive in. His wife and 5 sons needed him to return from war alive and hopefully well enough to work and keep a roof over their heads. The conscription laws were a mess in his country and he had not wanted to leave them and fight. Every time his officers were impressed by his feats of arms and bravery they foolishly felt it was his conviction to the cause and his love for his nation, his comrades or his unit that conjured his tenacity. But no, it is his love for his wife and children that drives him on, knowing that someday the fighting would end and he would have earned his peacetime. Paid in the blood of whoever crossed him and threatened his dangerous and circuitous path back to his family.
The top of the shako took a moment to research. The colour didn't always match the colour of the facings on the unit. I saw a purple version and felt that was quite regal and a nice contrast so used that. There seems to be silver or white lace work down the middle of each panel and around the edge which is difficult to replicate and not part of the sculpt. But if you are painting dozens and dozens of these to represent a big battle perhaps a single colour on top matching the facing colours would be better.
The railing is a piece of resin sprue from a North Star model. I scraped off the North Star wording and packed up one side of the fence to show a slight difference in height of the ground either side. I imagine it's the boundary fence to a graveyard, but could be a manor garden I suppose.
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