I wanted to use the tank rider figures, all the time accepting that I am no great figure painter! Their poses are decent and fit around the turret very nicely. It’s perhaps a little odd that they are wearing gloves and furry hats on a tank dated to Summer 1944 (for the markings I used), but that is how they are moulded.

I painted them the various paints shown in the images, followed by an oil wash in selected places and some light dusting with pigments.