Follow Up on Winter Germans

I am struggling with my winter Germans. I am trying to give them snow bases. I am basing on US pennies for individual figures and on FOW small bases or some round bases for LMG teams. I have a small tin of Army Painter snow flock. This is the same flock that I was using on my winter trees. I read the section on this in Pat Smith's book on winter terrain but he was using Woodland Scenics products. I tried to use his recipie with the Army painter product and I am not sure that it looks right. I only did one squad just in case I didn't like it.

Here is the rest of the platoon.

In all, it could be OK. I will look at getting some Woodland Scenics snow at the local train shop and trying again.

Also, the building that I intend to use for Building 6 in Singling is coming along. I managed to get some painting in. I still need to paint the downspouts and shutters on it. The doors are also in progress. Still thinking through if I will change the scheme.

Singling - The Orchard

In the first scenario of the campaign, there is an armored attack uphill through an orchard. All of my current trees that I have are summertime trees or late spring. I have a handful of fall trees. So I need a large orchard of winter trees.Looking through the bits box, I came up with fifty-eight Woodland Scenics armatures. These range from small trees barely bigger than the 15mm miniatures I have to about four inches tall. This should be a nice variety of sizes.

Now that they are bent into shape, I will need to decide on the basing. At this point, I am guessing that individually will probably be for the best. I will give them a light spray of gray paint and then a brown wash. This should make them look less plastic. Once this dries, I will use a spray adhesive and then sprinke them with some snow flock. We will see how that looks.

I also have to make two winter gardens. I have not figured out how I will do that yet. Anyway, it is progress.