Dice of Legends: Baker Company

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Finns Wave 2 Arrived!

My second wave of Finns from my Baker Company Kickstarter pledge arrived last week. Been a bit busy so finally had a moment to chat about them! Overall, everything is great, got an extra engineer and was shorted a few Model Chander (the civilian militia) figs and some SMGs was missing, nothing huge or earth shattering. Great stuff to the new items, some things was hit and miss on some figs and some had some rough casting around the bases that required me to do a bit more work than usual. Still, for the price I can't bitch in the least and happy with my choice to back Gav and his company. They have done well despite setbacks on the casting and some sculpting delays, yet as a small company they in my eyes are doing a great job.

My box and packing slip, like a kid I tore right into the box!

Extra rifle squads.

More rifle squads...

My few MC that showed! Don't worry boys more are on the way!

Pile of SMGs!

The work tray! Already down the center the Fins work in between the Germans and French!

I'll do some good shots of my Finns as I paint them up!

Monday, February 17, 2014

FINNISHED THE FINNS?!

Well, the first 59 at least! My goal when I painted them was to capture the dirty aspect of being in the snow, could have gone a bit more in depth and may toy with the dirt more at a later date. For now, I like how they turned out.

The painting style I will post up later but was pretty much what was posted on the Baker Company Forums with some liberties taken on color choices based on what I had. The choices of gloves and boots was intended to give the Finns that rag-tag feel of holding the line against the Soviet horde. So, you will see variations of color on gloves, boots and hats as well.....I tried to keep to a 2 or 3 color choice to keep things simple but enough to create variety!

4 laying down, crawling...

/Closer...

LMGS

Standing LMG

Laying down LMG, I had to use the bushes to conceal a break on the weapon barrel.

Officer with assistant. I plan to use the officer as an observer and the guy to the left is a unique pose that will act as the officer with a rifle.

Medic (left) with rifle and the White Death Himself (the only non-Baker Company so far)

White Death detail....very nice work by Warlord.

The Medic with a rifle? Really? The Soviets don't play fair.

I see him as a two for one, a poor man's sniper and a medic for a low price and extra draw dice.

The Back, going to repaint the cross, must have been tired or something. I went with the black bag instead of the green to give the feel that he may have been a doctor or med student before the war.