Roughing in the Green Devils

Got a chance to do some more work on the 1st Fallschirmjager Division soldiers I am painting for my Cassino Project. I will admit this is the most ambitious miniature painting I have done in a long time and a first in 1:35 scale. Lot's of new techniques to learn, and the tricks I learned doing 15mm and 25mm figures helps but doesn't solve all my needs. I can't recall having to paint so much detail. Anyways I have chosen to paint in the belts and equipment first before I finish painting the camouflage on the jump smocks. I am choosing to do it this way so as not to have painting accidents later and mess up the camouflage. I also needed to paint in some shadows and some highlights on the base coat on the jump smock before starting the camouflage. I need to get a silver artist pencil to place some scratches on some of the metal equipment, and I still have quite a bit of work to do yet.  Below are a few photos of my slow progress.

Fallschirmjager final build

With the Holiday's behind me, and spending time with my wife on vacation, I finally got a chance to do some more builds for my 1st Para. I only have one more model to finish and then I can focus some more on the painting. I am also excited that I am close to putting some of the 4th Indian division together. It was a close toss up between wanting to do the New Zealanders next or the Indians as I would love to paint up some Mori troops, but the head dress of the Indians won my heart in the end. Hopefully I will get some time later this week to paint some and then begin assembly of the Indians.

The last one below, and I selected a resin head to replace this Officer/NCO out of box head. I really like the expression on this face.

Cheers