"Using FOW Finns as Soviets" Topic
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rtc105 | 05 Jun 2015 7:40 a.m. PST |
Has anyone tried converting the Winter garbed Finns to Russians? I was thinking they would need a few head swops, using the Peter Pig Soviet heads, but everything else should past muster. There doesn't seem a great deal of difference in the contemporary pictures or newsreels I have been looking at, especially at 15mm. Thanks in advance. |
Yesthatphil | 05 Jun 2015 8:04 a.m. PST |
Yes … I have used the FoW Finnish ski troops as Russians …
… here mixed with Peter Pig figures, a converted Zvezda truck and scratchbuilt sleds. It would be very difficult in any scale to tell the nationality of men in overall snow suits and many Finns used Russian weapons … If you are looking for other winter kit, QRF do nice aerosans …
Phil P.B.Eye-Candy Topics marked winter |
Winston Smith | 06 Jun 2015 7:01 a.m. PST |
No need to swap heads. In 15mm one guy on skis with a white cape and green helmet looks like a guy on skis with a white cape and an olive helmet. |
Yesthatphil | 06 Jun 2015 10:35 a.m. PST |
Finns used German helmets in WWII so if the helmet is not concealed by the hood of the snow suits it is certainly advisable either to resculpt the rim or just to change it (which is easy enough anyway) … Obviously not all enthusiasts care, but the idea that somehow glorious 15mm blurs away such distinctions is nonsense (or maybe special pleading by a lazy collector ) Phil (Most common, of course, with winter gear are fur hats as they keep your head warmer than steel lids – something the Germans learned to their cost on the Eastern Front) |
rtc105 | 06 Jun 2015 11:32 a.m. PST |
Phil. Thanks for the advice. I have been using the Peter Pig spare heads to convert BF Hungarian cavalry into Soviets, so was going to do the same with the helmeted Finns. I hope my figures turn out as good as yours. |
Yesthatphil | 06 Jun 2015 12:46 p.m. PST |
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Lion in the Stars | 06 Jun 2015 1:33 p.m. PST |
Nice snow-troopers, Phil! And yes, the Soviet helmet is still distinctly different from the German helmet in 15mm scale. Pico-armor has different codes for each nation's infantry, and that's 3mm. For that matter, Pico-armor differentiates their Napoleonic infantry by headgear. |
Winston Smith | 09 Jun 2015 6:33 a.m. PST |
Sure, when you are holding a Finnish infantryman in front of your nose to paint him, the head looks different from a Soviet. But on the table, one green blob looks like another. |
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