On the cover of last month's Wargames Illustrated magazine, Warlord Games had donated a plastic frame of their new WWII Soviet infantry.  It is a well-designed sprue with many options including snipers and men holding a panzerfaust.

To make the sums work for the Analogue Hobby Painting Challenge, I need to find an extra painting 10 points from somewhere, so - two 28mm infantrymen would do the trick quite nicely, so here we are.

The figures do not come with their own integrated puddle base, so I used a Kallistra plastic base, to get a strong connection between the soldier's boots and the base using a plastic weld glue.

The base is 40mm x 30mm, deliberately chosen to see what it would look like and whether it would work for something like the Rapid Fire Reloaded rules on my table and to see what the figures would look like when set amongst terrain that I already own.

Anyway, they are quite easy to put together. I used Vallejo Khaki for the uniform, which needs two coats for full coverage.

Whether or not this becomes a future project is uncertain at this stage, but it has the advantage that two small forces can be built up relatively quickly.