These are really great castings. 1/35 is a pretty odd scale for this period, and unless they release more from it, we are stuck with just those three figures with no option to expand the scene. Still beautiful stuff.
I have never seen trigger finger mitts on a mountain man. While there are naturally no rules about it, the most frequent representation of hand coverings I have seen illustrated is gauntlet-style mittens made of wool. Look at the art of Frank McCarthy or Tom Lovell.
We all need to take note of the warpaint on these pieces; in reality it was not applied with an airbrush and template rendering it perfect and permanent.
Once again your work blows me away, Ruslan. Fantastic.
I think it best to start with a simple uniform color-wise. Feldgrau as opposed to dot camo or the like. This allows you to focus on your technique as opposed to having to learn the ins and outs of painting camouflage at the same time.
For my ten cents this is a great idea. From the number of questions that appear here that could be answered by looking at a book I am not so sure that all of us even use books, but this dinosaur has hundreds.
Well thanks for the correction! I am so conditioned to reject requests via the web for bank info that I made a hasty call. I KNOW THAT WILL SHOCK EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ME.