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Comment on Onion Domes, Finished by Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:26:37 +0000

St. Boris the Intoxicated sounds like my kind of saint. Though why did I have to read this post the first day of Lent, when I’ve been called to give up booze for forty days? God has a sense of humour.
Really nice model, I love it, and I may totally steal that pigpen for ACW.
Cheers,
Mike

Comment on The Russian Civil War at Trumpeter Salute by chris

chris — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:26:07 +0000

Cool. Will you submit the scenario for the summer tfl special?

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by Chris Stoesen

Chris Stoesen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:34:16 +0000

Thanks. I was looking for it in an equivalency chart. That explains why I missed it.

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by Corey Burger

Corey Burger — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:47:41 +0000

The Reaper paint code is 09121, which you can see here: http://www.reapermini.com/BuildYourOwnPaintSet

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by Chris Stoesen

Chris Stoesen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:31:18 +0000

Is Khaki Shadow the right name? I can’t find it.

Thanks,

Chris

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by Chris Stoesen

Chris Stoesen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:44:39 +0000

Thank you. I will see if I have any of that available in the shops near me.

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by The Editors

The Editors — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:42:44 +0000

Both Reds and White would have started the Civil War in basically WW1 kit. I have the WW1 Russian Army Osprey book as well as the Red & White RCW Ospreys, and allowing for differences in printing, the basic colours are similar.

The Whites used a lot of British uniform items as the RCW wore on, too, and the Reds started producing their own uniforms eventually.

For paint, I use almost exclusively Reaper Master Series, the ones in the nice dropper bottles. Basecoat is Khaki Shadow, then a moderate to light wash of GW Devlan Mud, then progressively highlighted with Khaki Shadow, Terran Khaki and final highlights with Khaki Highlight. Leather gear, boots etc are a variety of brown basecoats, with different brown/burnt umber/sienna artists inks to get a nice rich leather look.

I use exactly the same base colour for my Bolsheviks, actually, but then a much much heavier coat of Devlan Mud and no final highlight with Khaki Highlight. It’s amazing how different they look together, actually.

Russian WW1 issue pants were often greener colour than I used on these figures, although a number of my more recently painted figures have a greener tint to the pants.

Don’t be too concerned with perfect uniformity, logistical issues dogged both sides and there’s some amazing period photos of awesomely ragged looking troops on both sides.

Hmm, I should rewrite this as a proper post with photos, now that I think about it!

(Great blog, BTW. Added to my RSS feed!)

Comment on LPL5 Week 6: White Russians! by Chris Stoesen

Chris Stoesen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:34:48 +0000

Question for you. Were the White Russian uniforms the same as the WWI uniforms? If so, would you mind sharing how you paint yours? Specifically what paint colors you use?

Comment on The Next Building Project by The Editors

The Editors — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:19:04 +0000

Thanks, Jim. As I said in email, I’d looked again for that image but not found it – obviously didn’t dig deep enough into Google Image Search’s results!

Comment on The Next Building Project by Jim Pitts

Jim Pitts — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:17:45 +0000

Here is your picture source:

http://www.torange.us/photo/4/13/Church-yard-1260186517_38.jpg

Jim