Figure painting, made in Germany!

I use Airbrush for white priming. The rest i do with all scale brushes. For the "Eichenlaub" (oak leaf) i use mostly a needle.

The scale of the figures is 1/72, ~26mm high.

Well done Passio, particulary like the Nachtjager, but maybe he should be a wehrmacht infantryman, not a Waffen SS infantryman ;)

(all the Vampir sets were stored in the night fighting school at fallingbostal till the clausewitz panzer division took them for its last battles in Germany)?

 stuart 8)

Very nice painting, especially on the soldier dressed for winter. I like the detailes that you added and the most his helmet and mud.

At the others, unfortunately, the pictures are not pretty clear and the details that you painted are less, but still I like several poses.

Congrats!

 Cristian Florescu

IR Panthers used once on the oder front 1945, once in Hungary winter 1944/45 & used on at least two occasions by the clausewitz panzer division during may 1945, (inc an IR equipped Tiger I).

 Vampir set's used by the clausewitz pz div, so not so much a fantasy weapon :D

 stuart :)

I was make new Pictures, with more Love for Details!

And this is my Seldmade Figure.

@Passio

The soldiers who trained at fallingbostal signed a document that the Vampir was a state secret and could not be talked about!

 That's why its so difficult to find accurate information about the weapon, but certainly, the  Dragon SS Vampir model is a fantasy piece.

 Very cool painting Passio

 stuart :)

Hmmmmmm......

The carbon impregnated cammo uniform was for general issue, the German high command was fully aware that the Brtish Army had an IR view finder in production, (tabby) by 1939 and that the US Army was begining to use superscope, so the German Army needed a camouflage uniform that would protect the wearer from night fighting weapons.

Unfortunately for them, the uniforms were expensive to manufacture and the materials to make them difficult to come by so it was never universally issued, but again it was not an exclusive Waffen SS uniform or exclusive to night fighting panzergrenadiers either.

The M43, (you call it the M45) helmet was issued in small numbers during WWII! The ballistics on this helmet were very good.

Its really worth investiagting this interesting subject further, you'd be amazed about what weapons were available.........and not fantasy!

stuart :) :D

According to as far as I know never the night fighters or infrared devices were used actively. They were possibly installed onto vehicles or weapons, were however never used!

In order on the helmet back to come

That is the NVA helmet from the DDR (Deutsch-Demokratische-Republik, East Germany).

This was originally developed by the "Reichs-Rüstungskammer". The designation read M45, however the war already out was never spent there before production began.

@Passio

 That's the great thing about signing secrecy documents, the survivors don't tell anyone what they did.......... :D

It's unlikely the clausewitz division carried the sets in to battle and did not have an opportunity to use them............?

 The so called M45 helmet was actually designed in 1942! For more information I'd recommend this site: http://forum.axishistory.com/

Hope it helps?

stuart :)