Reply To: 20mm WW2 Waffen SS Winter Infantry

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Thanks for a great reply @piers. I must admit for myself I am truly anal retentive, but I don’t expect it from others.

Such as if you brought these figures to my place to play a game set in France 1940 I would let it pass and only complementing on how great they look. For me I could not do it. The out of time figures would annoy the hell out of me. So I know exactly where you are coming from. The problem is that if not controlled anal retentiveness can kill enthusiasm in others, they feel that nothing is good enough for us. So my approach to others is to in a case like this to allow the small details to pass and even expand it. Such as who cares if we use these figures in 1940. After a while I will see a period they prefer such as battles of 43 in Italy.  I would start encouraging to paint within that period, like showing them colour plates of SS wearing Italian camouflage. So hopefully they find it cool to paint historically accurate.  It does not matter to me if they don’t have the correct colour either. If it persists I may buy them the correct colours as a present. The Panzer Fausts and assault rifles I could not let pass in a 1940. Like I hate and can’t stand documentaries on the fall of France and they insist on showing the clip of the inspection of the King Tiger Battalion. Like really!!! They were not even a designer’s dream in 1940.

So given this it is the norm for me to open up possibilities of play for figures like these rather then pin someone to an exact date. Hopefully without sounding condescending as that is not my intention.  For me on the other hand I near bought shares in the Plastic Soldier Company for my next project a US army from 42 to 45. Due to my anal retentive issues I have nearly 80 Sherman tanks in the cupboard.  Simply because I really cannot bring myself to use M4A1s when M4s were historically used. Because of the my German collection is growing fast in Pz-IIIs and IVs is growing fast for the same reason.

On another thing may I complement you on painting the uncovered helmets grey. It really adds to the atmosphere.  It seems to me that grey helmets are somewhat out of fashion with many painters who prefer to use dark green or yellow.

Again thanks for the reply, I am off to start weathering my T-44 that can’t be used with your figures because it it winter.