28mm Warlord WWII Early War Germans

[bigjackmac]

All,

As promised, I'm doubling up in order to get all these knocked out so I can get down to gaming. 

Hey everyone, here are my WWII Germans for the early war period, which I'll count all the way up to the beginning of 1943.  As usual, they're not strictly historically accurate; I think the biggest problem purists might have is that true early war Germans should have a reed green blouse over stone gray trousers, but I just went and did the blouse and trousers in Field Gray.  As usual, I used Contrast paints, with a slight variations; I used a mixture for the first (and perhaps, only) time.  I don't recall whom or where exactly (I humbly apologize), but I was looking at 'how to paint' stuff on Youtube and found a guy that was mixing Contrast paints to make Field Gray.  He used Basilicum Gray and Creed Camo, in what I seem to remember as 3 parts to 1, but I can't promise, I just don't remember.  In any case, I think the uniforms turned out pretty nice, and everything else was pretty basic stuff using other, non-mixed, Contrast paints.

They're really great figures, went together easy, lots of options, lots of combos, and really look sharp, with good weapons and proportions.  The only complaint I have about them is that every single one of them has some sort of gear pouch on his chest (EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!).  I believe it is to hold a gas cape, but I'm not really familiar with that, and I sure as hell don't recall seeing pictures of early war German infantry units in Poland, France, Norway, Holland, Denmark, Greece, Crete, or Russia with those things hanging on everyone's chest.  I could be wrong, but I'm just used to the cylindrical, metal gasmask cannister.  To be clear, I'm not doubting that it's a real piece of gear, or that some guys wore it on their chest, but every single guy in the unit?  How have I missed that my entire life?


Three leader-types, signaling their men, with a good look at them and their gear.  You can clearly see the gas cape carrier on each of their chests...


A pair of riflemen.


An MG team moving up...


And getting the gun into action.


Tossing some potato mashers.

To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2025/06/28mm-warlord-wwii-early-war-germans.html

And there you have my early war Wehrmacht troops, who will soon be getting up to all sorts of no good.

V/R,
Jack

[Steve J]

Excellent work once again Jack, and those speed paints really do seem to ramp up production output .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great work.
Don't worry about uniform colours. German uniforms faded into all sorts of shades, mostly due to the lack of consistency in the dues as the war went on.

[bigjackmac]

Steve - Thanks, and yes, couldn't have done this without the Contrast paints.

Lemmey - Thanks buddy, you're correct, and I'm very happy with how my field gray turned out.

V/R,
Jack

[fred.]

The field grey has worked well - I quite like mixing contrast paints to get new shades. 

I'm not sure how widespread the reed green/stone grey uniform was as the Wehrmacht expanded rapidly. You can hardly go wrong with field grey for Germans!

[bigjackmac]

Interesting, I've only tried mixing this one to make the Field Gray, and I got that idea from a guy on Youtube

V/R,
Jack

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Here's the image I was referring to (a short scroll down)
https://amsterdamwar.game.blog/2018/11/01/how-to-paint-6mm-ww2-uniforms-vehicles/