Testing the old eyes on Victrix WW2

next is the highlights stage. First highlight is generally a coat of the base colour apart from the flesh  boots and silver bits (see paints project entry). Next I push the highlights up a little further adding pale yellow to the base colour and painting the more raised areas (you all know the drill 😂). I’m pretty happy with the results and look better than my photography shows 😂. This took me two nights to paint 40 so happy with speed. At time of writing Iv base coated and washed another 40! I’ll show some of the heavier weapons off when I get to those!

Next phase is the all over wash. I use dark tone from Army painter. Gives a great shading and find it particularly effective on these tiny miniatures. I think at this scale you could get away with these as done at this stage but that’s just not me 😂

As these are small I decided to start base coating in blocks of 20 troops. I find the base coating of 10mm figures the most time consuming. The first batch generally takes the longest while you get to understand where the details are an. Once you have painted a few brush control and understanding the models becomes easier. The pictures above are of the first base coated models. They can look messy but at this scale they are easily tidied up on the next steps.

Next a run through of paints that will be used. Not to many required as uniforms require a limited colour palette.

Vallejo English Uniform – used for the main battle dress.

Vallejo Russian uniform Green -helmet (these are uncovered in the set), respirator bag

pro Acryl – khaki – belts, straps, backpack, gaiters

pro Acryl – coal black – boots

Pro Acryl- shadow flesh- flesh base

Pro acrylic- tan flesh – first flesh highlight

pro Acryl – warm brown – weapons

pro acryl – Dark Silver – weapons

pro acryl – silver – weapon highlight (mixed with dark silver)

Vallejo – black grey – boots highlight (mixed with coal black)

army painter dark tone – all over wash

pro acryl – pale yellow – used to lighten other colours for second highlights.

Thought I’d write about the minis first up. 184 miniatures in the pack at 35 pounds RRP is a great price in my opinion. There is great variety here to in terms of weapons rifles, smg,s, vickers machine guns and mortars to name a few. Also a great variety of poses throughout the pack. The sculpts are fantastic. Crisp clean detail all round. I like that all spru gates are on the base of each mini which is great and stops the chance of breaking the models when clipping them off. The real triumph with these is the proportions. I often find that smaller scale sculpts have huge heads and hands etc but these look delightful. I would recommend for quality and price