"Warlord Games: German Heer HQ in Winter Gear " Topic

Hi all,

After many years of abstinence from some WWII related subjects, I rather fancied to paint some of the Warlord's German Heer Figures in Wintergear. They were a nice change to the Napoleonic's I usually paint and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I painted the Anoraks again in my trusted and now well proven Foundry "Arctic Grey" 'Triad with additional deeper shading. The Officers Coat and the other Field Grey Uniform parts were painted with Reaper's "Olive Green" Triad, whereas the fur linig of the Officer was painted with Foundry's "Buff Leather" with a light was of GW Agrax Earthshake.

The Helmets, Caps and the Officers Tunic were painted with Coat d'Arms "Dark Grey" Triad. For the Bread Bag, Binoculars and various Magazine Pouches I used Coat d'Arms "Stone" Triad with additional shading using GW Agrax Earthshake by adding it to the "Mid Stone" colour.

For the Bases I used some "Golden Grass" Tufts from MiniNatur to represent the Winter Vegetation and drybrushed the normal Grass Flock with GW "Desert Yellow" to dull down the green a bit. For the Snow I used a Mix of PVA Glue, AP Battlefields Snow and Andrea Artificial Snow Powder in a overall Ratio of 3:2:1. I applied the mix with a small brush in a couple of layers but also sprinkled some dry AP Snow on top of the mix to represent fresher Snow.

Please follow the links below for more pictures.

German Radio Operator: link

Medic with wounded Landser: link

Officer with MP-40: link

NCO with MP-40: link

Well that's it for today ;) lol

I hope you like them.

Please let me know what you think. All comments are very welcome.

Kind regards

Sascha
sascha-herm.com

Great job. I really like how the white smocks turned out.

These are really nice

Wow, wow and Wow!!!

Beautiful figures! Nice work!

Visually stunning! Well done!

Thank you all. I really appreciate it ;-)

Great job here and thanks for the infos about your painting method
Did you preshade the anoraks and highlighted them afterwards or did you base coated them with grey washing them later?

@ Kungfucius:

Thank you for your compliment. I basecoated the Anoraks with Foundry's Arctic Grey A first and usually follow straight with B but due to some poor definition of the sculpt I decided to apply a darker wash by mixing Shade A with a little black, it helped to determine where to apply the highlights.

I started to use Vallejo's Retarder Medium not that long ago and mixed it in with Foundry's Arctic Grey B, which really helped feathering the highlights on and therefore softening the transition between the A and darker layer. I also added the Retarder Medium to the white to apply the last highlights. I only used pure white on all "edges" and top of creases.

Well, I hope that makes some sense ;-)

Kind regards

Sascha

Thank you Sascha
I use Vallejo colours, therefore I think I will start with neutral gray followed by light sea grey or simply base+white

using the Vallejo Retarder do you paint in successive layers while the colour has not dried yet?

I'm asking because I paint 1/72 minis, perhaps they are too small for blending. Painting WWII Brits I tried with very diluted glazes from darker to lighter tones, later gently highlighting where it's due.

It seems to work but I am not confident I can achieve such a subtle transition as in your figures. They are really beautiful, bases included. Thanks for sharing
Stefano

Hi Stefano,

I think your Vallejo combination will work well.

In regards to the Retarder:

You would usually use it to wet blend the layers, which does work normally well on larger scale models but as most of my miniatures are only 28mm, I use it to blend / feather the successive layers into the previous ones after it dried, especially when I paint the more intricate and smaller parts / creases of the Uniforms, i.e. Chest, Arms, Legs, etc. I will use wet blending on larger areas, like cloaks or coats though.

You are right about the 1/725 scale, as I am not sure either if that would work in such a smaller scale with the retarder.

I would use your three Vallejo colours in succession and glaze the figure with a mix of Base + middle colour. After that has dried you will have some softer transitions between layers and can apply the final highlight (white) again, which should give you a more subtle effect.

I hope I have not confused you too much ;-)

Let me know if you need any more help but please keep me informed how you are getting on ;-)

With kind regards

Sascha

"I would use your three Vallejo colours in succession and glaze the figure with a mix of Base + middle colour. After that has dried you will have some softer transitions between layers and can apply the final highlight (white) again, which should give you a more subtle effect".

great advice here Sascha, thanks a lot

Stefano