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I like the mustachioed officer with the light tan tunic. The body is converted from ESCI Afrika Korps? It is one of my favorite sets. Got my first one around 40 years ago, but not my only copy.
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Hi Bluefalchion...
I know the Esci figure you mean and I will use it for my Condor Legion but the Italian Officer comes from this set
Waterloo 1815 Italian Infantry Support Group
I know the Esci figure you mean and I will use it for my Condor Legion but the Italian Officer comes from this set
Waterloo 1815 Italian Infantry Support Group
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How many Republican battalions had excellent morale and fighting spirit, but so little training as to be largely useless in battle?
‘Campesino’ evokes ‘farmworker,’ not a term to inspire confidence.
‘Campesino’ evokes ‘farmworker,’ not a term to inspire confidence.
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Very fine work and great photography. Anyone wishing to study the forces and armaments used by the opposing factions in the Spanish Civil War, need only to look at your posts and your very well modelled armies.
Base sizes for heavy weapons and artillery etc is interesting. I entirely agree with the logic that you are using here. In my case, a perhaps even simpler solution has been to use the dimensions of the 'standard' plastic storage boxes that I use for my figures. In the case of WW2 figures, I have many 100s of clear plastic business card boxes (base dimensions 85mm x 55mm) which are large enough to accommodate one light artillery base (and actually also ! x smaller AFVs and trucks; I base all my vehicles); or two mortar/HMG/Command bases, each with a heavy weapon (or radio) and three figures. My basing is therefore driven by the dimension of the boxes. I use larger boxes eg: A5 size) for larger tanks, trucks, artillery etc.
Base sizes for heavy weapons and artillery etc is interesting. I entirely agree with the logic that you are using here. In my case, a perhaps even simpler solution has been to use the dimensions of the 'standard' plastic storage boxes that I use for my figures. In the case of WW2 figures, I have many 100s of clear plastic business card boxes (base dimensions 85mm x 55mm) which are large enough to accommodate one light artillery base (and actually also ! x smaller AFVs and trucks; I base all my vehicles); or two mortar/HMG/Command bases, each with a heavy weapon (or radio) and three figures. My basing is therefore driven by the dimension of the boxes. I use larger boxes eg: A5 size) for larger tanks, trucks, artillery etc.
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Coming back to Gerda Taro... I think you need to create a figure like this, or did you do it already?
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Hello Joan, i'm one of your fan here, among many others ! But i realized i never took a sec to write it, so now it is done.
Thank you for sharing that superb project, and thank you for giving us so many informations, and even personnal -and moving - ones too.
Speaking personnal, my grand father from my mother side was Italian, and he did the Spanish civil war.
It is obviously a long story , but i remember that he told me several times how horrible it had been, that he had never seen so much cruelty and fanaticism ... And a few years later he saw the N**is in his region! In addition, the Italian troops were extremely destitute, even the clothes were lacking ...a real way of the cross for him and his comrades
Thank you for sharing that superb project, and thank you for giving us so many informations, and even personnal -and moving - ones too.
Speaking personnal, my grand father from my mother side was Italian, and he did the Spanish civil war.
It is obviously a long story , but i remember that he told me several times how horrible it had been, that he had never seen so much cruelty and fanaticism ... And a few years later he saw the N**is in his region! In addition, the Italian troops were extremely destitute, even the clothes were lacking ...a real way of the cross for him and his comrades
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Great stuff as always.
It is a pity that you can not get your figures into Bill’s Peninsular scenery.
I have not seen the Airfix commando grenadier for forty years!
Best wishes,
Chris
It is a pity that you can not get your figures into Bill’s Peninsular scenery.
I have not seen the Airfix commando grenadier for forty years!
Best wishes,
Chris
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More great stuff, Joan. Beautifully painted, moodily lit, beautifully photographed. And I always love how you pull these armies together from so many kits - it really gives a ragtag look to the forces. It was great to see that old Airfix commando in there, possibly one of the most animated grenade throwers ever sculpted.
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C M Dodson wrote:Great stuff as always.
It is a pity that you can not get your figures into Bill’s Peninsular scenery.
I have not seen the Airfix commando grenadier for forty years!
Best wishes,
Chris
Any time! Bring your armies to Canada!
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Hi everybody...
First of all I want to apologize for not answering your comments before. But I’ve been wandering around Bretagne for a couple of weeks and disconnected from anything other than enjoying the scenery and eating as many oysters as I could.
Bluefalchion, Militias ofthen have extravagant names but I would be more worried for a Militia callking himself The Tigers of Mompracem
than Campesino (Peasant), name that just try to evoque the social origin of his members.
It is true that the militias were prone to swicht without warning from figthing with almost suicidal courage to panic attacks, sometimes totally unjustified, leading to their total line dislodging.
But same happened with the International Brigades at the beginning. Being units sent to combat with none o very little military training, they had to learn the hard way. And true is that they payed a enormous toll in casualties but, eventually, they learned.
Mabo... Lets see if I can find Hemingway first...
Chariobaude, I deduce from what you say he was with the 12th International Brigade, the Garibaldi. Because Italians were on both sides. In fact, the battle of Guadalajara was somehow a war between Italians. Where, by the way, the regular and fully motorized troops sent by Mussolini got a hard corrective...
Chris and Bill, I don't want to embarrass my figures in front of Bill's Wellington Peninsular Army ...
Thank you all for your time.
Joan
First of all I want to apologize for not answering your comments before. But I’ve been wandering around Bretagne for a couple of weeks and disconnected from anything other than enjoying the scenery and eating as many oysters as I could.
Bluefalchion, Militias ofthen have extravagant names but I would be more worried for a Militia callking himself The Tigers of Mompracem
than Campesino (Peasant), name that just try to evoque the social origin of his members.It is true that the militias were prone to swicht without warning from figthing with almost suicidal courage to panic attacks, sometimes totally unjustified, leading to their total line dislodging.
But same happened with the International Brigades at the beginning. Being units sent to combat with none o very little military training, they had to learn the hard way. And true is that they payed a enormous toll in casualties but, eventually, they learned.
Mabo... Lets see if I can find Hemingway first...
Chariobaude, I deduce from what you say he was with the 12th International Brigade, the Garibaldi. Because Italians were on both sides. In fact, the battle of Guadalajara was somehow a war between Italians. Where, by the way, the regular and fully motorized troops sent by Mussolini got a hard corrective...
Chris and Bill, I don't want to embarrass my figures in front of Bill's Wellington Peninsular Army ...
Thank you all for your time.
Joan
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Bandera de Marruecos Falange battalion.
Falange was the Spanish fascist party and these are the equivalent to the German SA or the Italian Black Shirts. The Spanish fascists took blue as a distinctive color for their shirts, just like the British fascists did if I'm not mistaken.
Despite the red tarbucks they adopted to distinguish themselves from the peninsular units, these militiamen are not Moroccans but Spanish settlers established in North Africa.
Falange was the Spanish fascist party and these are the equivalent to the German SA or the Italian Black Shirts. The Spanish fascists took blue as a distinctive color for their shirts, just like the British fascists did if I'm not mistaken.
Despite the red tarbucks they adopted to distinguish themselves from the peninsular units, these militiamen are not Moroccans but Spanish settlers established in North Africa.
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Yes, if one wants to have war then he should have an army.
And you've painted whole army(ies) here... and you've done great job.
And you've painted whole army(ies) here... and you've done great job.
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