"KNIL 28mm" Topic

Planning to do a small Japanese -early- army for Chain of Command and would very much like to pit them against the 'forgotten' KNIL (Dutch)
SInce there are no KNIL figures available is there a range of 28mm figures I could convert-easily- into KNIL ?

Tiger Miniatures have a German Colonial Range which might suit your needs. They appear to come in slouch hats and sun helmets. Be keen to see your results for C o C in my nearby neighbours land.

Doesn't Tiger also do Colonial Era KNIL?

Grelber

I do not know much of their uniform but the slouch hats can be obtained here:

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ANZAC hats don't work for these guys. The Dutch wore their hats turned up on the right side not the left. If you're not concerned about the exact configuration of the uniforms with bells and such, consider using Bob Murch pulp figures new German colonial figures as the KN IL.

I got a few of these packs to use for Dutch troops deployed to England to join Albert's forces in the VBCW.

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I forgot to mention that I converted some of the German colonial in pith helmets to Dutch marines by filing them down a bit. Also did find use for Woodbine heads noted above, used the Adrian helmets with the top ridge filed down.

From what I can tell the Marines wore a very dark blue jacket with the standard KNIL "lime" green trousers. I have seen pictures with both a dark blue peak cap and the helmet.

I have pictures of the KNIL in helmets, flop hat (which in combat I am sure got droopy and pined on left also). side cap, and peak cap.
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Here is a color film of troops in Indonesia just before war
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Check at 4 minutes especially.

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And this all goes back to an original TMP thread
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A recent similar thread lead to Murch's Pulp Germans as possible Dutch colonials:

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Agreed, Bob Murch's German Colonial troops look good, the problem will be to find heavier support weapons than the MG in that range but perhaps the crew on that can be used on Italian weapons such as the 47 mm AT gun and an 81mm mortar from the WG range of Italians. The Brits shipped captured Italian weapons to the KNIL AFAIK.

On that note, does anyone know what is in the Battle Honours Italian Heavy Weapons pack and what the gun is in the Infantry Gun & crew pack?

the problem will be to find heavier support weapons

I hesitated to weigh in on this, because it's a hobby-horse of mine, but the KNIL Marines used the Madsen LMG in a short-barreled version. There can never be enough Madsen-armed troops, IMO. It's good to see you can use the Lewis gun too.

The BH Italian heavy weapons pack has 2 Breda 8mm MMGs, one firing and one moving, and a mortar. The Infantry gun is the "Cannone da 65/17 modello 13."

Jeff, you are setting me up to show off recent conversion of Pulp german, as Dutch to have a Masden. Soon to be released by Company B, I had a review copy put to good use. I did other conversions of these figures but sent all to Fernando for painting without pics.

I did not use any Italian weapons because I am in 1938-39.

Just noticed a Vickers 1936 light tank in Batavia. Need to add one of these to my troops. Who makes this?

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Bob: Sweet! I remember he was talking about Madsens, but the subject seemed to have died. Did you notice the Bolivian Madsens here: link / TMP link ?

That tank is bascially a Carden-Lloyd, right? Company B is you r source: link although you'd need to scratch-build a turret I think. (Note also the Czech Legion troops – who need Madsens!

Warlord games do the Belgian version of the tank as well.

JE, different running gear. I did think Company B had a Marmon Herrington Light Tank underway?