All,
Trying to keep a good thing going, so another week, another post, again showing off more of my headlong dive into 28mm, and again focusing on the stuff I got from Nick Eyre at North Star. I already had British infantry for Northwest Europe and 8th Army-types for North Africa, but I wanted some guys with a specific look for British infantry in Italy (or at least my impression of them). To elaborate, I didn't want dudes in normal battledress and I didn't want dudes in the desert shorts, I wanted sleeves rolled up and pants unbloused. I saw some figures of interest on the Artizan Designs so I reached out to Nick and he did me a great favor putting together a platoon deal with exactly the figures I was looking for. The pics below represent the fruit of those labors ;)
The whole mess. Enough guys for a full rifle platoon plus maybe another section, and an MG and mortar team, all ready to go whooping Nazi butt up the boot of Italy. I'm sure my paintjobs are not historically accurate, but they're painted exactly the way I wanted them to look in my mind's eye. What I'm shooting for is a group of guys that have been in the fight for years, against the Italians in the Western Desert in 1940, then the Germans, all the way into ejecting the Axis from the continent in Tunisia, then on to Sicily, and now Italy proper. Once again I used Contrast paints, so the uniforms are a mix of Aggros Dunes over light gray, Aggros Dunes over dark gray, and Skeleton Horde, to give me a nice (at least, I think so) mix of veteran uniforms.
Closeup of a couple Tommies. You can see the mix of helmet, shirt, and trouser colors. As always, great poses, proportions (I like'em chunky!), gear, and weapons. These guys show exactly what I was talking about with unbloused trousers (no gaiters) and rolled sleeves or pullovers.
Hump, hump, hump…
The Leftenant and his Platoon Sergeant.
Not strictly regulation ;)
Hope you like them, and if you'd like to see a bunch more pics, please visit the blog at:
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I am dying to start up a platoon for Platoon Forward, but as Joe pointed out, I really need to be playing with my boys before they're grown and out of the house… Anyway, I continue to paint like a madman, but I'm happy I took enough time away to photo these and post them, and I'll do my best to keep it going.
V/R,
Jack
snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.
