24 May 2014

The Great War Project #5: Russian Shocktroopers

I'm back from my holidays in sunny Italy. After a week of sun and absolutely fantastic food this means back to business. I didn't even try to catch up with all the blog posts I missed so my sincere apologies to all of you.

Yesterday, after a hand full of sleep after all night driving, I finished the bases on my first full squad of tsarist Russian Shocktroops.

I'll probably expand the squads to 12 men in the end as I vaguely remember the Russians fielding larger Squads.

 

Miniatures are from the "Back of Beyond" range by Mark Copplestone. The figures were a real joy to paint but unfortunately suffer from the dreaded monopose syndrome. To add a little bit of variety I slightly converted two of the figures to wear the french made Adrian helmet. For the headswap I used separate heads from Forgotten & Glorious. They were a perfect fit and I can only recommend their products. I hope they'll add to their currently quite small range of WW1 french in the not to far future. 


For the uniforms I tried several shemes what gives the unit an overall quite inconsistent appearance. In the end I settled for VMC Russian Green for the trousers and the peaked cap and Foundry Moss for the Gymnastiorka.


Despite the monopose issue I'll paint up at least one more squad of the Copplestone Whites to make the squads look more uniform.

Thanks for viewing and hope you enyoyed!


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24 comments:

  1. Samuli24 May 2014 at 20:04

    The head swaps really help in adding some difference in the poses. The paintjob is just spot on as always with your work! Looks very Russian with the varying shades of equipment etc :)

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  2. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)24 May 2014 at 20:20

    Really excellent painting Nick!! Your photography was good before, but I must say it has really taken off lately as your finally doing the justice your miniatures deserve! Superb mixing of tones and shades on the uniforms.

    Christopher

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  3. wiatrog24 May 2014 at 21:09

    Lovely as usual. So inspiring...

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  4. Monty25 May 2014 at 00:12

    Superb set of Russians with great shading, skin tones and basing! They do look the business.

    You're the 2nd blogger to just get back from Italy. Must be some sort of Italian BlogCon going on I didn't hear about!

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  5. Mike25 May 2014 at 00:22

    Excellent job! The posing does not detract due to the imaginative paint work and it does provide some uniformity.

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  6. Ptr25 May 2014 at 07:50

    I like the figures very much and the painting also!

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  7. Dalauppror25 May 2014 at 08:12

    Stunning painted minis !!!

    Very interesting to see your east front ww1 project grow, nice also as a change from all the west from projects that are so poppular.

    Will your project also include the war in balticum 1918-1919 reds (whites/germans/finnish and even some mercenary Swedish troops.a few years back I painted med a German Freikorp force "Iron Brigade" for our Russian Civil War project. Not as wellpainted as your but maybe some inspiration: http://metrobloggen.se/dalauppror/general_von_der_goltz_iron_division/ (the link are to my old blog before I moved to blogger.)

    Best regards Michael

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  8. Phil25 May 2014 at 09:04

    These Russians are really awesome!

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  9. Phil Robinson25 May 2014 at 10:22

    Excellent, great idea with the head swoops.They really look like they mean business.

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  10. Silver Whistle25 May 2014 at 15:44

    Superb painting on the figures, they are tempting me into yet another project.

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  11. Opa Wuttke25 May 2014 at 17:16

    Excellent paintjob and some very characterful faces !

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  12. Black Powder25 May 2014 at 22:50

    These are absolutely superbly painted! Very very smooth color scaling. I quite agree on the F&G Miniz quality, these are my favorite WW1 French. We'll have to keep our fingers crossed that the excellent range can expand in the future.

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  13. Hobbyworker26 May 2014 at 04:42

    Wow awsome looking models....

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  14. Unknown26 May 2014 at 09:57

    Wow sexy Bemalung! Ich bin immer wieder begeistert, wie fein du deine Uniformen und Farbverläufe hin bekommst! Auch die feine Ausführung der Schulterklappen ist dir super gelungen.

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  15. Rodger26 May 2014 at 11:45

    Absolutely fantastic paintwork Nick! Love the faces, awesome!

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  16. Stefan (aka. Monty)26 May 2014 at 14:55

    Klasse! Das Ergebnis ist absolut genial!
    Sowohl die Bemalung als auch die Arbeit mit den Köpfen ist wirklich klasse geworden.

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  17. MiniMike26 May 2014 at 15:47

    These are top notch Nick, great painting!

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  18. Hobbyworker26 May 2014 at 16:22

    I just want to tell you that i have awarded you the Liester Award :)

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  19. Lt.Hazel26 May 2014 at 22:11

    Man I love imperial Russian uniforms, and you painting suits them perfectly. Well done!

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  20. BigRedBat27 May 2014 at 20:11

    Stunning painting!

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  21. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)29 May 2014 at 01:10

    Hi Nick,

    I of course nominated you for a Liebster award on my blog: http://christopher-bunkerhill.blogspot.de/.

    Christopher

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  22. Wargames modernos España.30 May 2014 at 16:11

    Congratulations!! I have been to film!!

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  23. Curt2 June 2014 at 22:25

    Absolutely gorgeous work Nick. Your excellent painting very much relieves the 'monopose' of the sculpts. Bravo!

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  24. FourEyedMonster15 June 2014 at 16:07

    Wow these look great for this scale! Wonderful work! ^_^

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