Luftwaffe ground crew - Zvezda
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I've started putting together the Luftwaffe ground crew by Zvezda. It consists of 5 service men. One is a mechanic, two are pushing and pulling the trolley which carries the bomb, the other one is carrying a Jerry can and one is pulling a fuel barrel. Tolling is 2014. Instructions are simple and it comes in Cyrillic alphabet and in English. There are 32 parts altogether but some are not used like the big base which is to be used for a card game named Art of Tactic - WW 2. We are supposed to use the box art as reference to what colors should be used. It's a very well made kit with no flash whatsoever. The plastic is dark grey and the kind you find nowadays in all kits, i.e. soft.
After some research I found out that the uniforms of groung crews were either dark grey RLM75 or dark blue RLM24. I opted for the latter. Skin was painted Humbrol 61 flesh. They were then coated with glossy varnish followed by a black and brown wash and finally coated with a matt varnish. The boots were painted with glossy black. Th
