Italian airfield personnel

The LRDG-attack on an Italian airfield does need targets. Aeroplanes are a given, also barracks, guard posts, guns, fuel dumps and vehicles. But what is an airfield without airfield personnel? Obviously not much, so personnel we had to find.

We're doing stuff!

I didn’t find any obvious models for this. But a box of Airfix WWII Luftwaffe Personnel had to do as ersatz Italians. Who’s to complain, there is no Osprey on these guys, as far as I know.

You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen...

This is the initial trial run, with a mix of figures and the pilots. The results are good enough, so I’ll paint the rest of the figs in the same way.

I do not approve!

Colours used (Vallejo unless otherwise noted):

Personnel

Uniform: 847 Dark Sand

Shoes, belts: Humbrol 62 Leather

Equipment: 977 Desert Yellow

Skin: 955 Flat Flesh

Hair: 872 Chocolat Brown

Everything washed with Army Painter Quickshade Ink Soft Tone, and boots washed with Citadel Devlan Mud (RIP)

Pilots

Uniform: 874 Tan Earth

Skin: 955 Flat Flesh

Washed with Citadel Devlan Mud (RIP)