Collins Does a German Winter Offensive

Ok, so as this is going to be bolt action it is going to be accurate to the point that I want it to be which means, not all that accurate in this instance.

I started by simply deciding I wanted to do a winter list of some sort with winter basing, that led me to warlord and looking at the winter options and just settled on the Germans because why not.

I then just started searching for very generic photos of German soldiers in winter gear, no idea what units/regiments/arms of service these people are from.

The purpose of the images above was to make me think about how I should paint the models.

Obviously the winter German boxed set contains a lot of greatcoats and not a lot else, my limited googling shows that it was quite common to see a heavy dose of white over smocks and trousers in the snow environment.

Although the above images show that usually everyone was equipped in a similar fashion, aka all had smocks or nobody had smocks, I wanted to add a little variety to the squads and mix it up, perhaps they’ve had a bit of a tough time on the front and so a few units have been amalgamated to create one understrength unit.

Back to the webstores I went, the next best box was the SS box as they have lots of smocks too. instead of doing peadot, oakleaf or Italian pattern camo just paint them grey and off-white instead, maybe a few headswaps with the winter box to get the wrapped up and a bit cold look. job done.

Then into the discord house of water #besthouse I went for advise on alternative shops for winter German models. they did not disappoint and sent me off to multiple stores to window shop.