Some Crazy Capitalists Soviets

 As you know, the Soviets were mad Liberterian Anarcho Capitalists, Basicly the were all Penn Jillette, but with uniforms, and guns.

 These are Warlord/bolt action figures, and I'm bot comtetly satesfied with these, every thing except the faces are great, but the faces are horrible, and I'm not taking the blame for it, they look crap, and it's not my fault. The faces on the Empress miniatures looks just fine, so I can paint good faces if I get the right model, but these are just odd, stange, corse faces, pointy noses, they look kinda like the faces you see street painters paint, you know the caricatures, but funny faces, this is what they look like, and it's sutch a shame as the rest of the figures are actualy very good.

 I spent alot of time on the color of the uniforms, I had to do sevral repaints untill I got a greenish/kaki/brown thingy, I use two diffrent colors, as the russians had lots of color neuanes.
So most of the uniforms are the green brown thing, while some are just plane lightish brown.

Evil Baby eating godless reds.

So I'm playing this cool computer game called Men of War Condemmed Heroes.
It's about a russian unit during WW2, composed of people Stalin didn't like, espesaly officers that are out of favour, and so serve as privates and doing the most dangarues of dengarues missions.

You normaly control a few soldiers, having to fight overwhelming ods, I'm now stuck on the second mission, were I got 8 soldiers, and have to fight through a small village with 100+ germans and a dozen or more armor vehicals. You got 14 minutes to get accors the village and blow up a train before it leaves.

It's insanly hard, but you really have to think hard before doing things, a well placed Mg can take out 20 enmies easy. you can use stealth, during the night missions, you can sneak all the way up to unaware enemies before they see you.

The graphics are fantastic, you can zoom all the way to a single soldier and see the battle from his point of view.

Anyway this got me in the mood to paint WW2 figures, lukely I did have some this time, I got a few peterpig germans and russians.

So here they are.


My earlier figures were based on very small bases, but I've found I don't like small bases, some how, my value in the figures are proprosonal to the base they are based on.
I saw this with 6mm Napoleonics to, I often give up these projects with small bases, and actualy THROW the figures away.

So they are on bigger bases, 6 to a base.

I think they look prety good, I like the colors I used.

Keep it simple stupid

This is the mantra of the SAS, even super soldiers can get in trouble is the plan is to compliacted, the simpler it is, the bigger the chance of succes. I have borrowed this mantra for my russians. After looking at painted FOW figures on the offical site I notised they used a technice I used before on my napoleonics, namly the black only shade. It's a very simple way of painting figures, atleast in theory, it does take some practice to get it right.

So I realised my prevous figures were to busey, while AB Napoleonics will take as many layers of paint you put on them, these might need you to go simpler.

So I tried the black only technice, and I think the resualt was much better, they are simpler yet they look more neat, more pro.

I've gone very basic with these, just black shade, no highlights, I think it's a huge improvment.

So I like the new versions much better then the previous.

More Evil Reds

The Red horde is taking shape, if I'm goona use Blitzkreig commander, then each base is a platoon, 3 platoons is a company and 3 companies pluss a heavy weapons company is a battalion

It dosn't take up much room so I'm gonna need lots of figures to have a big battle.

Whats this, commie bastards on my blog

So I was playing Red Orchestra 2, for those that don't know it's a extremly realistic computer FPS, sett in and around Stalingrad, it lets you play as Soviet or German infantry and tank crew.
Unlike standard FPS, here you don't know how many round you got in your gun, either you have to count your rounds or you can check the weapon, and it tells you if you got more then half, less then half or is almost empty. Thats it. Also you don't see your health bar, not that you need it, becasue a single round from even a pistol can kill you. There is no cross hairs, so the only way to aim is to use the iron sights.. You can get lucky and hit some one at close range from the hit, atleast with automatic weapons.

You can also climb over obsticals, so open windows or fences is no problem to climb/jump over.
But what does this have to do with pinko bitches(my favorite line from Die Hard 2) on my blog, well I got this condition, a syndrom if you will, if I get inspired by media, movie, games ect. I have to paint it. So this means yet another project.

I've been trying to do WW2 for a long time, evey time I've basicly try skirmish gaming. but I've come to the conclution I HATE skirmish gaming. I've tried it in WW2 and Napleonics and I don't like it.

So What I'm trying to do is to make a WW2 version of a Napoleonic Divisional game. So instead of controling a squad or platoon, you control a regiment or division or even more. It looks like BlitzKreig Commander is the rules to use. This also means that for the first time I'm doing WW2 in 15mm.

So I give to you the first three platoons of commie scum, I choose Easter fron, becuase, well I'm playing RO2 and becasue it lets you have big sweaping large scale battles, on a relativly flat battlefiled.


I put alot of effort into these, I painted them as 28mm, as much as the FOW figures let you do that. The uniform got 3 colors, main, shade and highlights, the rifles got two diffrent coats of wood, the metal in the LMGs and SMGs got two coats of metal. The helmets got two coats. The field caps got two coats. The faces are a let down I tried to use flesh wash but it didn't work on the 15mm figures. So next time I'll use the brown wash.

I decided not to flock the bases, I just put down single tuffs on brown sand.

I think the genral uniform color, is about right, but I did have problems with gear, the webbing was wine, not that there was much of it showing in the figures, but the backpack, breadbag and Trench tool cover was harder, I did look at orignal gear and it did look quite yellow, so I used a yellowish sand color.


I don't like the bases on the FOW figues, they are really massive and very high for so small figures. they should really be at most half that massive. These figures are much smaller then AB napoleonics, yet their bases is 3 times as tall and massive. Not only that but they are often very uneven, meaing te figures en up crocket on the plastic bases.

I bought these FOW figures just to have some russians to paint, I have orders lots of Peter pig figues that will make up most of my forces.

These figures remind me of OG Napoleonics, lots of "hu" parts to the figures, Sevral times I've asked my self are those webbing straps or just folds in the uniform?