Dust – Battle Squad and a giveaway!

Enough German Dust-squads for a while now. Time for SSU, the Chinese-Soviet pact, and first up is a SSU Battle Squad, aka Frontoviki.

Five men armed with assault and machine guns and lightly armoured. The minis needed some cleaning as there are mould-lines. They’re not in any way bad but I prefer to clean them off.

One thing that bothers me a bit with these figures are that they all wear the same magazine pouches, regardless of weapon used. I had an idea about sculpting a new pouch for the machine gunners and making a mould of it so I could produce a bunch. But that is for later…

I’ve based the paint-scheme on the previous early-war Russians I painted earlier this year. A bit simplified though.

Paints used:

Uniform – 924 Russian Uniform

Assault pack – 912 Tan Yellow

Magazine pouch, entrenching tool cover – 914 Green Ochre

Entrenching tool handle, grenade handle – 843 Cork Brown

Water Bottle – Formula P3 Battledress Green

Belt – 984 Flat Brown

All above one coat of Army Painter Strong Tone Ink wash.

Amour, helmets, knife sheath, magazines etc – 894 Camo Olive Green + AP Dark Tone Ink

Gloves – Citadel Foundation Charadon Granite + AP Dark Tone Ink

Weapons, metal – 863 Gunmetal Grey + 2 coats of AP Dark Tone

Knife handle - black

Bases will be changed to transparent ones as soon as I get those. Should be any day now.

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Don’t forget my own 100K giveaway.