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The Observer Scenario: The Figures

I have restarted my WW2 era interests through painting some of the Plastic Soldier Companies 1/72 figures. I have painted Russian and US troops so far. As my interests are solo and mythical, matching historic countries and or uniforms is not essential.

If I ever play a live opponent, I will probably be ok as there seems no shortage of modelled german armies……..

Having painted these figures I do like some poses a lot while others seem a bit odd. The Russian hand grenade thrower and SMG handler makes sense if you stand him against a wall though. So I think PSC did a good job here. The US set has some excellent “moving forward” troops, yet too many kneelers?

In production. I opted to paint on sprue and then cut them off afterwards – only a few needed a touch up where there was no base connection. I did think handling would slow me down but on balance I would say there was no loss of overall painting speed
Some useful box art for the painter – not always the case. Indeed I can only show you a plastic bag for the US troops.
I quite liked the suggested paint guide. I opted for a brighter uniform which was toned down with a wash.
some of the figures had a black undercoat and weak yellow ochre block paint

I opted for block painting with a wash. I used a proprietary matt varnish which worked in the odd place but generally came out satin: Answers on a postcard.

animation is measured. I think the figures improved with painting
No shortage of Officers
I thought these figures were very good
The figures to the front are black undercoat while to the rear are some who were white undercoated. Otherwise they all finished with a wash and matt varnish.

I had some fun picking the shade in the end opting for “seraphim sepia” on everything except the odd helmet

I toyed with three man square bases as per Peter Pig then remembered I had decided to use individual circles – the vintage 1p piece is just right for me, 5p too small and 2p and 10p too big.