| 14Bore | 19 Dec 2016 5:08 p.m. PST |
I got the Old Glory Prussian 15mm generals to update my Prussian command. Halfway through painting but there is one (GM Ziethen now)with his right arm straight out to his side and in his hand which he is extending it with looks like a WWII German potato masher grenade. Anyone else have this and what did you make it out as? |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 19 Dec 2016 5:10 p.m. PST |
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| Titchmonster | 19 Dec 2016 5:22 p.m. PST |
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| JimDuncanUK | 19 Dec 2016 5:23 p.m. PST |
Telescope? Marshalls Baton? |
 ochoin  | 19 Dec 2016 6:05 p.m. PST |
Flash. Get out that rat tail file. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 19 Dec 2016 6:48 p.m. PST |
You do not say which era or which Zeithen, unless GM = Generalfieldmarschall. This one perhaps? link
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Looks like a badly rendered sword in this pic. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 20 Dec 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
Isn't he often depicted with a pipe? |
| Bashytubits | 20 Dec 2016 11:14 a.m. PST |
Maybe it is a piece of meat he is brandishing about. Generals need their snacks during battle you know. |
| 14Bore | 20 Dec 2016 1:08 p.m. PST |
Napoleoic and everywhere mentions not related to Frederick the Greats freind. |
| 14Bore | 20 Dec 2016 1:10 p.m. PST |
It could be a turkey drumstick |
| John the Greater | 20 Dec 2016 1:35 p.m. PST |
Maybe it is really a potato masher? Those Germans sure like their kartoffeln. |
| 14Bore | 20 Dec 2016 3:46 p.m. PST |
link Upper left is the figure and it looks like its whatever its supposed to be. |
| JMcCarroll | 20 Dec 2016 5:18 p.m. PST |
He is pointing with a rolled up map? |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 20 Dec 2016 5:45 p.m. PST |
Or handing a map off to someone. |
| Zephyr1 | 20 Dec 2016 9:37 p.m. PST |
No, he's smiting someone on the nose with a rolled up newspaper… ;-) (Hard to tell what it is from such a tiny pic.) |
| 14Bore | 21 Dec 2016 1:20 p.m. PST |
It looks like a handle with a larger end, for now I gave it a off white as a map but should be filed to a even roll. |
| Zephyr1 | 21 Dec 2016 3:08 p.m. PST |
Caption:
"Orderly! Orderly! Refill my roll of Charmin, if you please!" ;-) |
| 14Bore | 22 Dec 2016 12:50 p.m. PST |
I am really pondering to make it a potato masher, it would be my only goofy thing in my armys. I often see these women artillerists and think why not make a battery of them as a wim so why not make it a grenade? |
| Henry Martini | 22 Dec 2016 3:38 p.m. PST |
Why not indeed; we have irrefutable evidence that hand grenades have been around since the middle ages. |
| Volleyfire | 23 Dec 2016 9:36 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 29 Dec 2016 1:57 p.m. PST |
Finish the last general so went back and filed a little on GM Ziethen's hand out gave it a light wood handle and since I didn't have olive drab ( sacrilegious I know but don't have use for that color) a black end as Googleing a potato masher gives plenty of examples of that. |
| Zephyr1 | 29 Dec 2016 3:10 p.m. PST |
Mixing black and orange makes olive drab… ;-) |
| 14Bore | 31 Dec 2016 5:03 a.m. PST |
Zephyr didn't think of that and a week ago looked up how to mix raspberry. You can look up how to make colors if you don't have them. |
