Tamiya #35207 Russian Assault infantry:How many sprues are suppoed to be in the kit????

Here's a site that sells uniforms for reenactor groups. The colors should be fairly accurate, plus you have to factor in wear and tear, age and sun fading into your colors, so the margin for error is pretty wide. There's no camo smocks there, but none of the figures in that set are wearing any camo anyway, and all of the uniforms present in that kit are available through that site, except for the great coats and the capes. The capes were olive green, roughly the same color as the 1943 pattern men's blouse, and the great coats ranged from a very dark brown toned OD to an almost tan OD to something like the gray side of German field gray.

 http://collectrussia.com

 Scroll down to the reenactor stuff and click the links you need.

 I think the figure build ups are fairly obvious, but the instructions never hurt. It never hurts to order them. If you can wait until the weekend, I'll have time to scan the instructions. I'll see if I can make them into a PDF, but it may have to be some jpgs.

  As far as the sprue goes, that's up to you. Though the two sprues contain equipment for all teh figures, so without one of them, you don't have weapons and equipment for half of them. I think DML had a WWII Soviet weapons kit, if I recall correctly, which would have everything you need and then some, but I can't find it on the web. I'll have to check my parts box and see if I have any Soviet weapons in that dark grey plastic they cast their weapons kits in. I'm certain I have a Detyarev cast in that color, though maybe that came with a DML figure kit. It's been a few years. 

 

Thank you for a very detailed reply. I greatly appreciate it!

But you may have opened a nother can of worms!

If the two sprues are identical, is it worth ordering another one to replace it? Would it be better if I bought a separate additional weapon set if any are available?

Where can I find a good online reference for camo and painting of these figures? Is an instruction sheet supposed to be included in the kit that I should also order?

Thanks again 

Actually, they're identical. Both have the letter Y as their identifier.

 With each sprue you get 2 PPSH41s with separate 71 rnd drums, 2 PPSH41s with 35 rnd magazines molded in place, 1 Degtyarev MG with separate drum magazine, 2 PPS43s, 6 ETs, 6 helmets, 2 small packs, 2 1938 field packs, 2 1915 field packs, 2 PPSH41 drum mag pouches, 4 PPSH 35 rnd mag/PPS43 mag pouches, 1 map case, 1 2-pocket Mosin-Nagant 91/30,M38,M44 cartrige pouch (why, I have no clue because no Mosin-Nagants are supplied with the kit), 1 Tokerev Holster, 1 map case, 6 canteens and one bi-pod for the Degtyarev.

Thanks!

 What are the names of the 2 weapon sprues. i would like to order the missing one.

You should have two figure sprues and two weapons/equipment sprues. I'll see what I can do about the instructions, though painting isn't that tricky. Olive Green and Tan are the most predominant color, with perhaps some OD Brown for the great coats.