Painting Winter War Finns - part 1

As I said in another post I backed the Baker Company Winter War Kickstarter

I picked up the first part of the pledge at Vapnartak & started cleaning them up a week or two ago. It took me a whole evening to clean the up (4 hours!!). All the figures that are running on one ankle have been cut & pinned (just to be on the safe side!)

They are, I think, a product of their own success. By this I mean that they had quite a bit of flash & miscasting due to the speed & sheer volume of miniatures needed to fulfil the pledges.

Overall I would rate the figures at a 7 out of 10 for historical miniatures, which I think is more than OK, especially when taking into account the Kickstarter deal.

Right now for the painting.

I have undercoated all the figures with grey car primer rather than black as on the test figure.

I have then painted Valejo panzer aces splinter cam as a basecoat, followed by winter tanker White & stencil as shown on the figures in the picture below (in the same order) figure 3 has also been edged in CDA panzer grey ready to have the equipment & face painted

 

 

I will try & get some more done in the next week or so, but life is getting in the way of painting.

Canon de 105 mle 1913

I picked this Canon de 105 mle from Bob Emmerson of Mad Bob Miniatures for use with the Winter War Finns from the Winter War Kickstarter from Baker Company.

 

Its all cast in resin with a detailed instruction leaflet (which is more than some of the bigger manufacturers can manage)

It came as a very clean casting with very little clean up required apart from a little bit in the spokes.

Its a fantastic medium Howitzer that I can't find any faults with (& the spade actually moves as well!!) well worth £8.

I will post up a painting guide to the Baker Coy. finn latter this week as I have just started painting them.

 

 

Ainsty Broken Robot

My 6 year old son, Tom, has just finished this Ainsty Broken Robot.

I helped him with some bits & we talked through what to do & why, but 80% of the work is his.

I must say i'm impressed with the result. Just need to get him painting armies!!