WAFFEN-SS GERMAN COMBAT UNIT ARDENNES 1944/45 1/35 DRAGON MODELS

This military figure kit is pretty old. There are many points where the mold is dull. I tried to scrape or carve it with a design knife, it was a difficult work. The most important thing is camouflage painting.

I made the strap of the StG44 assault rifle.

A soldier with a grenade in his belt. It is difficult to fit this grenade to clothes. It’s necessary to adjust variously, cutting the warhead a little with a file or cutting the belt part from the middle.

The Schmeiser sub-machine gun was changed from the attached one to the other kit Gen2Gear, the Gen2 kit is slightly better molded. However, since the product number of this kit is 6002, I think that it is quite old, the molds of weapons and figures are well made.

The work of hanging the machine gun bullet belt from the neck is quite difficult. I put a lot of glue to soften the plastic parts and it went well.

We added machine gun strap with masking tape. Without this, I cannot pose him like the illustration.

The molding color of the plastic is orange. So I wonder they are calling the Orange Box a series attached to the figure with a Dragon’s tank kit as a bonus.

I have not decided where to paint brushes yet, but I blew the surfacer.

Now I am practicing the painting of the uniform camouflage patterns.

Orange was mixed of German oranges with brown and yellow a little. The other colors are 826 German camouflage medium brown and khaki. Mixing various colors on the way and I could not explain. I hope to see this looks like camouflage pattern uniform of autumn to winter.

Ummmmm…

The Battle of the Bulge was the last German army tried to counterattack who fell in defeat between the offensive of the Soviet forces from the east and the offensive of the Allied forces who landed in Normandy from the west. It was deployed from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945. Hitler thought of forcing the Allied troops to the sea, bringing it to a ceasefire.
It is also called the Battle of the Ardennes because it was set in the Ardennes Forest between Belgium and Luxembourg. This figure plastic models are Waffen-SS German soldiers who participated in that offensive.

Beige brown and German camouflage Orange-ocher base. Various spotted camouflage on the uniform. Especially light green is the accent point. Using this makes a little sharp.

Vallejo’s 833 German camouflage Bright green, 875 beige brown and 979 German camouflage dark green used.

After all, the autumn and winter pattern is destroyed. I painted the pattern again.

It is an officer of the Waffen SS. Though it is the pose that seems to read a newspaper, he gives instructions while watching a map. The map case is suspended from the belt.

I need to practice a little more the camouflage pattern of the German uniforms. For example, I practice in one of the hands and feet and advance to the whole if the patterns and color are OK. It takes time to paint again after all painting was done because it is different from my image. The shock is big. Though the trial and error are fun in various ways, too small painting needs perseverance.
(04-November-2018)