"28mm WWII Indians, and a few Australians, from Warlord" Topic

All,

You've seen all my British forces, so let's go with some "Commonwealth" troops ;) I was reading up on some of old Joe Legan's batreps from his "Platoon Forward" website and I really got engrossed in having an Indian platoon. My cliche'd concept was going to be a spoiled, white British officer missed the Fall of France and is absolutely dying to get into the action, couldn't be happier when he receives orders to the Middle East, but gets assigned to command a platoon of Indian soldiers. He pisses and moans at first, but once they get into action it changes his opinion of them. They fight the Italians and then the Germans, all the way through Tunisia, then hit up Sicily (need to confirm Indian units saw action in Sicily) and Italy, then get pulled out and sent to the Far East to fight for their homeland (Kohima/Imphal) against the Japanese. So, nothing to do but buy another box of 8th Army troops and build a platoon of Indians. Had some spare duded left over and decided to make me a few Australians in bush hats, too.

The Platoon Sergeant and the Lieutenant's batman.

A Bren team.

An Indian soldier, rifle levelled at the enemy.

Another, firing from the off-hand position.

And a pair of Aussies, with Bren and Tommy Gun.

To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
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So, I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out, a pretty cool little project that I'm proud of and really looking forward to getting into the fight.

V/R,
Jack

You are killing it with the WWII figures. These are probably my favorite so far.

Very nice!

4th and 10th Indian divisions were in Sicily I think.
But I could be wrong….

Thanks everyone, I appreciate it!

From what I can tell, looks like the Indian divisions finished up in Tunisia in May ‘43, rested and refitted, then started showing up in Italy in January ‘44.

V/R,
Jack

You are right, 4th 8th and 10th Divisions were in mainland Italy starting in September 1943 (8th), December 1943 (4th) and 1944/45 (10th).
Told you I could be wrong :)

No worries man, I spent some time looking around, it wasn't clear until I went to the individual unit histories.

V/R,
Jack

The Sikh platoon sergeant's beard looks particularly good!

Grelber

Thanks, Grelber!

V/R,
Jack

Nice work, Jack. Those Indians are impressive.

Thanks, Dal! And yes, I'm quite pleased with how they turned out, looking forward to getting them (and all this other stuff) into action! May I live long enough ;)

V/R,
Jack

Lovely figures.

The English Patient film headlined Indian Commonwealth troops in Italy.

A small mar: surely holding the barrel-release-handle on the Bren-gun might lead to un-intended consequences?

Thanks, and yes, I recall that movie (Sayeed from ‘Lost').

Yeah, but aside from the prone gunners (which I didn't have any more bodies for) there's no other way to build them.

V/R,
Jack