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João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.comBlogger802125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-57498224566522624182024-03-18T05:18:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:42:16.490-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 10): Australian infantry <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFJ0fXgLgl0F3RJ8NKelmjIRBU_0QO8JK7g5Tg-i8D_z306Zhm6F0TapdW0CjURW5dxENfMTkrnT_GX3EoFIhldV4COis3ynrGCzPDNY-H6sXE4rdGvDJloEbfDqrIVYcwc-JhAcCv2eP49vWCf0VzEvN3thLaUn3_wpJjSz-x3GvWNKm7h2uGO02t1o/s3269/1710539102322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1718" data-original-width="3269" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFJ0fXgLgl0F3RJ8NKelmjIRBU_0QO8JK7g5Tg-i8D_z306Zhm6F0TapdW0CjURW5dxENfMTkrnT_GX3EoFIhldV4COis3ynrGCzPDNY-H6sXE4rdGvDJloEbfDqrIVYcwc-JhAcCv2eP49vWCf0VzEvN3thLaUn3_wpJjSz-x3GvWNKm7h2uGO02t1o/w640-h336/1710539102322.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Australian WW1 infantry from Hat that showed up in 2003 was a nice addition to their WW1 range. The figures are beautifully modelled and very elegant. Before this box being produced I was thinking to use some Airfix Australians (with slight changes in the ammunition pouches) and Airfix WW1 British infantry with Aussie heads instead. A small group of these were included in this brigade. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnrr0rfb13E5guAMzExm2Jmk5krR_oc4o53wT4SEjdN2Vrr2eNHl74xX51NiBWdTuKR-1u2ufDxc2mz2I2Sgap4HoIsgaPqTiUkVYn-ZrD6eO9NE2Ggjp4G89n3BLI42AQVmmdvHpRipImg3OyMBAz2r61UX3aIf5idPIBpvbKzNmPcOSffX1Q_GR5ZI/s1873/1710539102244.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1625" data-original-width="1873" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnrr0rfb13E5guAMzExm2Jmk5krR_oc4o53wT4SEjdN2Vrr2eNHl74xX51NiBWdTuKR-1u2ufDxc2mz2I2Sgap4HoIsgaPqTiUkVYn-ZrD6eO9NE2Ggjp4G89n3BLI42AQVmmdvHpRipImg3OyMBAz2r61UX3aIf5idPIBpvbKzNmPcOSffX1Q_GR5ZI/w640-h556/1710539102244.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Airfix Australian figures are smaller than the Hat ones but go along with them reasonably. The Airfix officer had its scabbard taken out and the sword melted and cut to the shape of a pistol. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHOcALE1Gx4mKCV3fZGigdA5bGqLFDcxDpZPolx66cjLXXB5BulLMiBR5IFngBwI9bATgOoa2e8udyptYlN3WwX237WJPf_Z_XFhsOH7loTsMPQXr1oVB9vzgULyRf3XdOE_U_r2d9FL0XzJwtF8H38JLhpBqIDL9xkAquUGvKwHOllKhoXP-JDES4IM/s1666/1710539102261.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1666" data-original-width="1640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHOcALE1Gx4mKCV3fZGigdA5bGqLFDcxDpZPolx66cjLXXB5BulLMiBR5IFngBwI9bATgOoa2e8udyptYlN3WwX237WJPf_Z_XFhsOH7loTsMPQXr1oVB9vzgULyRf3XdOE_U_r2d9FL0XzJwtF8H38JLhpBqIDL9xkAquUGvKwHOllKhoXP-JDES4IM/w630-h640/1710539102261.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The three types of figures side by side. As you can see in the rear left figure (Airfix Australian) you need a few cuts in the 1937 ammo pouches in order to turn it into the P08 WW1 model. This figure also got a bayonet stuck into the rifle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRDxJB_b3VYZR0jdU0gjxi8D_py2-0vs4Ea5DYr0QEnvCIJNbVXIP1hLgiUOktLUOf_KosHBhK1YmMsrawKODi1kkJfL1J-noCj6gdBGv9YgSDVo8nJGaUOom85e0_561qZarjcqpGIoWt6IDt7p9hsmtcmGUFfd-W8WaTw4Hzu4etOpRR_oi96QJTA-g/s1233/1710539102359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1233" data-original-width="1181" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRDxJB_b3VYZR0jdU0gjxi8D_py2-0vs4Ea5DYr0QEnvCIJNbVXIP1hLgiUOktLUOf_KosHBhK1YmMsrawKODi1kkJfL1J-noCj6gdBGv9YgSDVo8nJGaUOom85e0_561qZarjcqpGIoWt6IDt7p9hsmtcmGUFfd-W8WaTw4Hzu4etOpRR_oi96QJTA-g/w614-h640/1710539102359.jpg" width="614" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One Emhar officer also entred the ranks due to its position favouring the company of other marching figures. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgplyYQ5f9lKRE4VY9ZW9UVUgepugxqHQGFBEJE4iEE3YGSiIhyphenhyphenQKiTfJMA_5UUcsJIBSASn9fG5LXlQ4BN76FxH9M-Q_HpRjQe2cNJSnmJSljLmrsn0Nm_2-JeyHodWYFrvS5mhVv8yukG8uDZWkzt9y0pDwyD9yZAxqcvV5SbTAqAj0pk4cQ2u_lYeG8/s1161/1710539102282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="1161" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgplyYQ5f9lKRE4VY9ZW9UVUgepugxqHQGFBEJE4iEE3YGSiIhyphenhyphenQKiTfJMA_5UUcsJIBSASn9fG5LXlQ4BN76FxH9M-Q_HpRjQe2cNJSnmJSljLmrsn0Nm_2-JeyHodWYFrvS5mhVv8yukG8uDZWkzt9y0pDwyD9yZAxqcvV5SbTAqAj0pk4cQ2u_lYeG8/w640-h598/1710539102282.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Vickers MMGs are WW2 British Hat with Aussie heads from Airfix. The Airfix range is in fact a good source of heads as when they were made the idea was mostly diorama building and not wargaming. Thus you have plenty of useless figures (for wargamers at least) that can donate parts of their bodies to science, sorry, to wargaming. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzSDQvFRUq2qzB_TyZE4UlvoznYV-0yydqPX7dFp6CUibBtTdzdir6aKVJRvRPyMo8iEJg9m00pxaEY5Rt1-cG0M9nJCeBCrB4LY2shMelctTqfnoOwDHphCvdDCgJGWxRO5D8kkCEtC0GhMtTY5IFht99VcW_5Cu2c2VboVXRbck0xtRL5xlAkSBmVc/s1107/1710539102386.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1107" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzSDQvFRUq2qzB_TyZE4UlvoznYV-0yydqPX7dFp6CUibBtTdzdir6aKVJRvRPyMo8iEJg9m00pxaEY5Rt1-cG0M9nJCeBCrB4LY2shMelctTqfnoOwDHphCvdDCgJGWxRO5D8kkCEtC0GhMtTY5IFht99VcW_5Cu2c2VboVXRbck0xtRL5xlAkSBmVc/w640-h608/1710539102386.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Before painting. In fact you have the same type of position in the WW1 Hat Anzac support box but these were just hanging around without much prospect of ever being used (and they are cheaper this way). </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3icu-uezL5mETwTTyNOOyVY-RMILCy4Jd2UQANDVXQjTDau-he7XBPkM1xiWLILq8GU8zsgOXvQBrBL5gcI38Kk3hU2L-f_Q-PGIC54wT3-vGRKYGit7L4dtFpE_E3M4Qk2tRWtyKmpqpKHKkIDuvUq0P1pJyYbr4LryWPAXrgyuDm9zoAuLgrf8QA5c/s1456/1710539102372.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="1316" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3icu-uezL5mETwTTyNOOyVY-RMILCy4Jd2UQANDVXQjTDau-he7XBPkM1xiWLILq8GU8zsgOXvQBrBL5gcI38Kk3hU2L-f_Q-PGIC54wT3-vGRKYGit7L4dtFpE_E3M4Qk2tRWtyKmpqpKHKkIDuvUq0P1pJyYbr4LryWPAXrgyuDm9zoAuLgrf8QA5c/w578-h640/1710539102372.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The brigade command stand is all Hat but the left figure is in fact a WW2 Polish officer with an Airfix head. <p></p><p>Next: Anzac beach, Gallipoli 1915<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-27376452587924591492024-03-16T15:14:00.000-07:002024-03-16T15:14:07.096-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in heerr... 1/1 scale (part 9):X beach (Implacable beach) on the 25th of April<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieg3VHv3hhcxUeLUU0Zj7h44tnz7dwp4t8pEejyUPQogmR3sW7om0ek91AkqBZtm5WfgYNAVqtkVicfePyUsbg4npWlV_W9oh0CmHzOMt-4WJqPdcKvb6lzSUfUs-0ku-sLliMIDBfawI8Q_8wUFsHS-rVfObFgeElAx8Ph_lXtB-kfKAlgLmzZOWvBrc/s640/IMG_5919.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieg3VHv3hhcxUeLUU0Zj7h44tnz7dwp4t8pEejyUPQogmR3sW7om0ek91AkqBZtm5WfgYNAVqtkVicfePyUsbg4npWlV_W9oh0CmHzOMt-4WJqPdcKvb6lzSUfUs-0ku-sLliMIDBfawI8Q_8wUFsHS-rVfObFgeElAx8Ph_lXtB-kfKAlgLmzZOWvBrc/w480-h640/IMG_5919.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">X beach was another landing spot that became problematic not only due to the small beach (180m X 20m maximum at its centre) but also due to the shoal water, reefs and winds which did not allowed for an easy traffic. Even so it was the landing point for the 2/ Royal Fusiliers that only faced, initially, 12 turkish soldiers. This beach was also a good spot to unite with other beaches at Cape Helles area. Later this bridgehead was counterattacked by the Turkish several times and those actions make some interesting wargames scenarios. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBZijEGuPeCBELPydWv_wawtz78LySLhgw60CtFzrxiPr02XQyE87RU5pyhYBSVZKcu4Psarm4eiJlxcyMj-EGWRxfeA51kphAeYNVu3VH9A3HIL-RLBsN0lqLEEEFlPvht2zG143wLoLijirJutouW3Ms6JZq3TlctTC0RjknxHRcHFze262nc-buiE/s1071/X%20beach%201915.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1071" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBZijEGuPeCBELPydWv_wawtz78LySLhgw60CtFzrxiPr02XQyE87RU5pyhYBSVZKcu4Psarm4eiJlxcyMj-EGWRxfeA51kphAeYNVu3VH9A3HIL-RLBsN0lqLEEEFlPvht2zG143wLoLijirJutouW3Ms6JZq3TlctTC0RjknxHRcHFze262nc-buiE/w640-h514/X%20beach%201915.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The beach was used as logistical area and field hospital with a cemetery close by. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9tQSPVEMGYinlci_Fi5dZx_Z-AOPUxjtwdLjbb1mZBv-nHREGc2pNsytJGsutYdcyvrgyQmenFoWdYvfWPzW_01c0wzcgyRhkVfn1lgzwhL7jzzU4n2zjG2g2yG5DL-5tds6RFqRCI3WIVd9ISgihJpLR3Lj4xknYM_dR9mJqyc2TibGdL7EIZwJLnMI/s2000/X%20beach%20sketch%201936%20Cpt%20Lockyer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="2000" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9tQSPVEMGYinlci_Fi5dZx_Z-AOPUxjtwdLjbb1mZBv-nHREGc2pNsytJGsutYdcyvrgyQmenFoWdYvfWPzW_01c0wzcgyRhkVfn1lgzwhL7jzzU4n2zjG2g2yG5DL-5tds6RFqRCI3WIVd9ISgihJpLR3Lj4xknYM_dR9mJqyc2TibGdL7EIZwJLnMI/w640-h364/X%20beach%20sketch%201936%20Cpt%20Lockyer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In this sketch by Cpt Lockyer you can see the reef, the shoal waters and the narrowness of the beach. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bP8Bn2F7tZMdTczwetN0LevBHY6QOl-f9c3fLiPuekQWwFEjQXD6ShsT6XaF_yA3_TLTtDaN67wwFpOMJCwwaK-pd-WagZkj4M1uEN5lsPaTPdKkvx3CJKvLmkMzF__kGR8oPv-nMWo2xLk25_IeISvh3AQ8-faOy2wKd9ygqYI-RxfSaYwYPfJZz7c/s800/HMS_Implacable.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="800" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bP8Bn2F7tZMdTczwetN0LevBHY6QOl-f9c3fLiPuekQWwFEjQXD6ShsT6XaF_yA3_TLTtDaN67wwFpOMJCwwaK-pd-WagZkj4M1uEN5lsPaTPdKkvx3CJKvLmkMzF__kGR8oPv-nMWo2xLk25_IeISvh3AQ8-faOy2wKd9ygqYI-RxfSaYwYPfJZz7c/w640-h492/HMS_Implacable.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One of the stars of this beach was HMS Implacable which was essential to the landing by carrying the Fusiliers and supporting them with its fire and to fend off several Turkish counterattacks both at X and Y beaches on the next few days. Another reason I'm posting this picture is to see if I gain courage to scratch build the thing... </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o_2rzyLDJOhwB69Zc3RRsjdXK9Z3Md3tOA1sqQTHQRgdSfZogX41owrH3soXPdCe5P5aQVOF-wumcQO4XtukL3nYwVpWxCVyzG-N8tviMTSxqM2BlCKPKhorLbg06t72ChMEo_En3sv04sDnYlqqfIfHX7NmZsRGTWJslEqzAeuwzynGY-jql2LmaHE/s640/IMG_5920.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o_2rzyLDJOhwB69Zc3RRsjdXK9Z3Md3tOA1sqQTHQRgdSfZogX41owrH3soXPdCe5P5aQVOF-wumcQO4XtukL3nYwVpWxCVyzG-N8tviMTSxqM2BlCKPKhorLbg06t72ChMEo_En3sv04sDnYlqqfIfHX7NmZsRGTWJslEqzAeuwzynGY-jql2LmaHE/w640-h480/IMG_5920.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The shoal waters are clearly visible from the top of the cliff and this was one of the reasons why X beach was discarded as an evacuation point in january 1916. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUXwv6efJM18IaCG0d_uRHFlOQGnC9bipE9J9-1GF0c6yPskTJsogDDqPlsIhomQH_ddaZF67DfZp3A4yc54UtY41n9nzMgpj79VdqT4uWWGqmZbD8wD96dlaDUuJ5lx3PCGS2_qY6yc_XPCDL-B_GJjGB7LgLKLovd7LO97CCmsC8XptRlbzk47oBAE4/s640/IMG_5921.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUXwv6efJM18IaCG0d_uRHFlOQGnC9bipE9J9-1GF0c6yPskTJsogDDqPlsIhomQH_ddaZF67DfZp3A4yc54UtY41n9nzMgpj79VdqT4uWWGqmZbD8wD96dlaDUuJ5lx3PCGS2_qY6yc_XPCDL-B_GJjGB7LgLKLovd7LO97CCmsC8XptRlbzk47oBAE4/w640-h480/IMG_5921.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On top of the beach you can read the Turkish side of the story with a natural emphasis on the Turkish feats of arms, which in fact were something in this campaign. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuZSIhixwMZIZ9JLXj4Qparygvye-Q1Cj6C2DK0j6fWXYW02Mm_CXb93EXv3mvZKB1clh-_EsvQp3OawqHZOW4q_nIVIE6UGEIXFpqg3dVSDmgI74gx_G3heQy5ltlWcdqScxFkBMuXvq0V4AkTp4swbBL5u7Q10Grt-1vg_C8QiEpBN7aVXPuYBdxlTI/s640/IMG_5922.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuZSIhixwMZIZ9JLXj4Qparygvye-Q1Cj6C2DK0j6fWXYW02Mm_CXb93EXv3mvZKB1clh-_EsvQp3OawqHZOW4q_nIVIE6UGEIXFpqg3dVSDmgI74gx_G3heQy5ltlWcdqScxFkBMuXvq0V4AkTp4swbBL5u7Q10Grt-1vg_C8QiEpBN7aVXPuYBdxlTI/w480-h640/IMG_5922.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On top of the cliff there are still some remains of what looks to me as probably British trenches. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8Smt4YgmB80ZJtNV-QK5eRuSM-jyyY1q0vCewq4IdqqdEW-NzYby7w42Kba_QXz1CPoLnN8rHFUxtJUmo6molRz1_13JOTwD50Lyq2B8IHS9bSa_VY1Bo8phQVhGoljSNwSAj5pKF8drkhFqyNugtr9hB5-lbCr4BJVGa-vUSeeRAatyJ1WhrrkTZ6Y/s640/IMG_5923.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8Smt4YgmB80ZJtNV-QK5eRuSM-jyyY1q0vCewq4IdqqdEW-NzYby7w42Kba_QXz1CPoLnN8rHFUxtJUmo6molRz1_13JOTwD50Lyq2B8IHS9bSa_VY1Bo8phQVhGoljSNwSAj5pKF8drkhFqyNugtr9hB5-lbCr4BJVGa-vUSeeRAatyJ1WhrrkTZ6Y/w480-h640/IMG_5923.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The southern side of the beach is even more complicated with some non boat-friendly reefs. Modelling this beach must be quite challenging </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: an Australian brigade for Gallipoli 1915. </div><br />João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-10095896203557332982024-03-14T07:46:00.000-07:002024-03-16T15:16:15.240-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 8): British infantry with Service Dress Cap<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iRjGClUAZfjRIwAephthX_zOEKvdoxNaqG9fFuXqHR_7trjXSOkLAUIJg6Qu389MDyC1N2FnoFFMXGHldppXq1VUWC9X13mQp1EA-diiDouPicLhwm0y2uYxVgFgy4A4tFMFCPM3eh-NY9pUnG3IGympGYc9kJG_J_h6rWEU-1lyJj2JZUEDZokhf40/s2961/1710367495943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1807" data-original-width="2961" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iRjGClUAZfjRIwAephthX_zOEKvdoxNaqG9fFuXqHR_7trjXSOkLAUIJg6Qu389MDyC1N2FnoFFMXGHldppXq1VUWC9X13mQp1EA-diiDouPicLhwm0y2uYxVgFgy4A4tFMFCPM3eh-NY9pUnG3IGympGYc9kJG_J_h6rWEU-1lyJj2JZUEDZokhf40/w640-h390/1710367495943.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The majority of British and Anzac infantry at the Gallipoli landings of the 25th of April had the Service Dress Cap with no Brodie helmets arriving, apparently, during the campaign. For many decades the only source of early British infantry was Airfix. Not bad figures but with several relatively useless figures for wargaming, that at least can be a good source of heads. In recent days Hat released a small box with 32 beautiful early British infantry figures and all these were mixed together with conversions from the Emhar late war figures . </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d-qHvY954f0MM4jn0i8YQtox73Ur8B420mTO2-v7PovzU5l1ib4iCM615of8EICYdfKS9oZiZ64wR3nCE0Soo_V6pb7nFhHltXzznkxpg_41feyfg-QeUuqKHetsA_YNxk9sYZzQNdiZvMMz5aHDMAXcFdCAl38Cx5aB0vHsuZ08CbdLpfVEnCCa0Wg/s3661/1710367495952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2756" data-original-width="3661" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d-qHvY954f0MM4jn0i8YQtox73Ur8B420mTO2-v7PovzU5l1ib4iCM615of8EICYdfKS9oZiZ64wR3nCE0Soo_V6pb7nFhHltXzznkxpg_41feyfg-QeUuqKHetsA_YNxk9sYZzQNdiZvMMz5aHDMAXcFdCAl38Cx5aB0vHsuZ08CbdLpfVEnCCa0Wg/w640-h482/1710367495952.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Airfix (olive green), Hat (bottle green) and Emhar (grey) are all very different both in design as in size (Hat are large 1/72 while others are closer to normal 1/72). The surplus Airfix figures gave heads to the Emhar figures and backpacks to the Hat ones. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaJLO9YzcbAUoE9pSbwqTJi4itrnvxzNtJlC7y0WlXTxEX5XMJlJF7RgRGdvREef87fnwc41qDBN0dipFkdlLS8z2RsTef-YoI89uaTMT6NQo4udnOtUMfX8XPlbhv0aE9CZAH20xxXyhCOJClJbGSHtZ6JO3Zb0quEwy_yGk7gGKr38Zg9hVuU19R4nk/s1996/1710367495921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1782" data-original-width="1996" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaJLO9YzcbAUoE9pSbwqTJi4itrnvxzNtJlC7y0WlXTxEX5XMJlJF7RgRGdvREef87fnwc41qDBN0dipFkdlLS8z2RsTef-YoI89uaTMT6NQo4udnOtUMfX8XPlbhv0aE9CZAH20xxXyhCOJClJbGSHtZ6JO3Zb0quEwy_yGk7gGKr38Zg9hVuU19R4nk/w640-h572/1710367495921.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In order to create a certain uniformity the Airfix figures got bayonets from stiff fibers taken from a plasticbroom stick . They were glued with superglue, then primed like the rest of the models with black acrylic and PVA glue and, finally varnished which made a strong bond between the the two types of plastic. </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-sXej1-qMHXyPOP9A1Txue-UtaWPZ1YHhdUifHBjmcaRcUA0Liy66Z53PnSL_OsVEyM65cXsltbdDLwaVNyrP_k1ktQWuKyp-s5Imo51bgOvN_QskImY8zldtRzuAl1RdmIF5ddFhGjjdL2I5U32n0YALQiKQdvsyKYjzAXhBihBh58uqOSdDl3ImHY/s2173/1710367495930.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1909" data-original-width="2173" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-sXej1-qMHXyPOP9A1Txue-UtaWPZ1YHhdUifHBjmcaRcUA0Liy66Z53PnSL_OsVEyM65cXsltbdDLwaVNyrP_k1ktQWuKyp-s5Imo51bgOvN_QskImY8zldtRzuAl1RdmIF5ddFhGjjdL2I5U32n0YALQiKQdvsyKYjzAXhBihBh58uqOSdDl3ImHY/w640-h562/1710367495930.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Airfix charging figure got the company of an Hat Anzac officer and two Hat figures. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8I5MvOpVDJ4Fcbu-zD4PvmNxC5ZoHT4qMk2Y6wT74VKTIDGGFTF1c8XdTvFRKBJMyK23JrIpwuGtzF44YadseeTaOa7f9qdv12XE33hdgpwjRWRMCiuL5yruRyTbROFaYQRJgoAMirXQSUPUSV8PDXgJYYFOwqgQbtkSJD7YLrmXiQd7qXJowqShu4/s1632/1710367495936.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="1632" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8I5MvOpVDJ4Fcbu-zD4PvmNxC5ZoHT4qMk2Y6wT74VKTIDGGFTF1c8XdTvFRKBJMyK23JrIpwuGtzF44YadseeTaOa7f9qdv12XE33hdgpwjRWRMCiuL5yruRyTbROFaYQRJgoAMirXQSUPUSV8PDXgJYYFOwqgQbtkSJD7YLrmXiQd7qXJowqShu4/w640-h580/1710367495936.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Emhar Vickers MMG No1 crewman got an Airfix head. The two other are Airfix without any change. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: X beach, Gallipoli 1915</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-33822956235187795022024-03-09T13:56:00.000-08:002024-03-09T13:56:49.967-08:00Impetus Rules - Mohacs 1526, part 11 - Revell conversions for Ottoman artillery in 20mm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGT9ArEJgfX2C7PKiWm2FjoBMjvuyuafwLAiAOp-nQJKVfDP4nTn-_qsdn1fCnaxH3AU77SxUdDkE0XHxCKTAZmH2beQYX4m28ABXRYiv5vaOOxeezl5bpcldsOBJaZLZ2w-er9n2LMPTl-EwLHO1bdbKnsmRJACZHOT0r_VkXduR1cuoU3dAtJycrl0/s2527/1709976093534.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1442" data-original-width="2527" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGT9ArEJgfX2C7PKiWm2FjoBMjvuyuafwLAiAOp-nQJKVfDP4nTn-_qsdn1fCnaxH3AU77SxUdDkE0XHxCKTAZmH2beQYX4m28ABXRYiv5vaOOxeezl5bpcldsOBJaZLZ2w-er9n2LMPTl-EwLHO1bdbKnsmRJACZHOT0r_VkXduR1cuoU3dAtJycrl0/w640-h366/1709976093534.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">RedBox or Mars are really hard to find these days so, in order to have some artillery for my XVI century Ottoman army, I made some conversions on the figures of the Revell box of the 30YW artillery. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVSAuAasYF-rp0N5gEX3C_rhypJ_XzIjoeshtMejAQPhhJ4DxXlSKePoua1wa1RXO4SeD61mrNFV6_oTZqH8xOzva4ZK60mz4wWPyg27oQ8NgeAvDHpT4msqX3k5VoYQE-qG92u4Xupj9SFA-cwmooO2mL9cAPNsaa08NAHXFoUSqh0WgCG5k7sqTBwwU/s2067/1709976093528.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2067" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVSAuAasYF-rp0N5gEX3C_rhypJ_XzIjoeshtMejAQPhhJ4DxXlSKePoua1wa1RXO4SeD61mrNFV6_oTZqH8xOzva4ZK60mz4wWPyg27oQ8NgeAvDHpT4msqX3k5VoYQE-qG92u4Xupj9SFA-cwmooO2mL9cAPNsaa08NAHXFoUSqh0WgCG5k7sqTBwwU/w640-h482/1709976093528.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These consisted on large Greenstuff trousers and sashes on many of the figures as well as several of the obvious turban and Fez. The Fez was made by simply cutting the brim of the hat all around . As there was plenty of Balcanic influence in Ottoman artillery I left some of the figures with the original trousers and wide hats making some cuts here and there for it to look with some contemporary images. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4w_RmSpLvwhuZYy6Z7PbiLfJrvJcAZLnPeymj1wCaIQWZRFCAwhGvX1xg-4yo81gxL8eedegaOxx1oFW5i8Jx11xDj6z79aVW5raCZd9GvU4WqPYcLfxypJODmw5G5WjQv0hX_2iEcmx4ZTKNSMjeY_ra6Zl_eayrPv0KtQpr5tt7IMF6XjJ1qhOKek/s3420/1709976093542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2263" data-original-width="3420" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4w_RmSpLvwhuZYy6Z7PbiLfJrvJcAZLnPeymj1wCaIQWZRFCAwhGvX1xg-4yo81gxL8eedegaOxx1oFW5i8Jx11xDj6z79aVW5raCZd9GvU4WqPYcLfxypJODmw5G5WjQv0hX_2iEcmx4ZTKNSMjeY_ra6Zl_eayrPv0KtQpr5tt7IMF6XjJ1qhOKek/w640-h424/1709976093542.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Here you can see (?) the GreenStuff applied on the headdress but not on the trousers and sashes as these ones were a later decision. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next: The British Infantry in Metropolitan uniform for Gallipoli. </div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-25516750790810787192024-03-07T14:32:00.000-08:002024-03-14T04:36:15.511-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in heerr... 1/1 scale (part 7): W beach (Lancashire´s beach) on the 25th of April<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlD0Pda0rQhCZ8gegA0SGhnf13C2wwHgMXmgW45lT1BJ59aDvCLeo6SfGls9PFgIxBPkjAPRqiBTCGAPDRqTA1yeNhkW2MaWJLoSHa9JHRq9v12ZgnQExJAVKueXSZWPNnXouYvK9m5a-gpVn7mAcVUDI7g5iNUhDV94geDRWJhI4LfH5ApxljMwhtSA8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlD0Pda0rQhCZ8gegA0SGhnf13C2wwHgMXmgW45lT1BJ59aDvCLeo6SfGls9PFgIxBPkjAPRqiBTCGAPDRqTA1yeNhkW2MaWJLoSHa9JHRq9v12ZgnQExJAVKueXSZWPNnXouYvK9m5a-gpVn7mAcVUDI7g5iNUhDV94geDRWJhI4LfH5ApxljMwhtSA8=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>“The scene on W Beach was like Dante’s Inferno; a terrible sight. Wounded were calling out for help and there were several heaps of bodies, about 20 or 30 in each heap. We lined up on the beach, but the Turks started shelling and we were troubled by shrapnel, so we made our way to a position on the slope above the beach”.</b></span></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGeGDzowDcPPmlfkz3ZX6PtxVFxVBnoF5k3CwUt4pW_XQSo4EnmjXGydVejsDx0lEr1meqTMUDe8qKss53ccVKMFyh7QjP_wkFOtFBxnxsCDdXHBNsMSbzzxOZ3wRN4fsVwsgTUs2zerRUb0vBX3w6JavKAuNY2VKAIR56PLO8bxU1mEY0mNPu06rtG4/s2400/lancashire-landing.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGeGDzowDcPPmlfkz3ZX6PtxVFxVBnoF5k3CwUt4pW_XQSo4EnmjXGydVejsDx0lEr1meqTMUDe8qKss53ccVKMFyh7QjP_wkFOtFBxnxsCDdXHBNsMSbzzxOZ3wRN4fsVwsgTUs2zerRUb0vBX3w6JavKAuNY2VKAIR56PLO8bxU1mEY0mNPu06rtG4/w640-h480/lancashire-landing.webp" width="640" /></a></span></em></div><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></em><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">W Beach (Tekke bay for the Turks) is famous for its "six VCs before breakfast" and was an awful place of carnage for the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, 29th infantry division, who lost 709 men killed and wounded out of 1029. This picture is taken from the Turkish trenches manned by a company of 240 men with a machine-gun (the Turkish sources deny the existence of this MG, but other sources even speak of two MGs which allowed for enfilade fire...). </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gebXIFjKfrj-TqcwYUiZpTNQil6l7HHPRNmKKP2NLB4SPHOFOzL2iK3ma8nkOaWtls4ZhwFiz9gQmQ-owGQpu2pEzpNQm21PE0s93kMbADQyf83eayDHpq0LLI92cPiJiNk284O1xLmOtw4MHcw4XKX-y4a2yEfVThvhd0xCrQ77gx2qQCNwTq36xZg/s640/IMG_5911.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gebXIFjKfrj-TqcwYUiZpTNQil6l7HHPRNmKKP2NLB4SPHOFOzL2iK3ma8nkOaWtls4ZhwFiz9gQmQ-owGQpu2pEzpNQm21PE0s93kMbADQyf83eayDHpq0LLI92cPiJiNk284O1xLmOtw4MHcw4XKX-y4a2yEfVThvhd0xCrQ77gx2qQCNwTq36xZg/w640-h480/IMG_5911.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At the beach itself there are plenty of remnants of these days, particularly several boats and pieces from the two artificial piers built by the British.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQee3sgdexRG4uQbFyYTsU4AgBwMijtnnH8UGerJdkElvuEPTxt9e4ES3OZBVRqeqsD6HDL2q1OGM_XpiC3vswGJnc9LZPOR9HhAF1NrWAKML9HNFH5vjcHRi_TqbMdIZUQKuLsFiDv0UMeXgwvLtuw5WSb28_oBnbR5qZoaW23k0Qqjxw9h19GJPLdeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQee3sgdexRG4uQbFyYTsU4AgBwMijtnnH8UGerJdkElvuEPTxt9e4ES3OZBVRqeqsD6HDL2q1OGM_XpiC3vswGJnc9LZPOR9HhAF1NrWAKML9HNFH5vjcHRi_TqbMdIZUQKuLsFiDv0UMeXgwvLtuw5WSb28_oBnbR5qZoaW23k0Qqjxw9h19GJPLdeg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The boat remnants from the previous picture is probably this one circled in red. </div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02PGb7lG6luDucjDPFHaICwr30qvQ9UqeerMCBKhhzY456TCxUjCzo7uAijsf_xvW84Jf0WC6tL1cFfjLP4KHd5htLX7B9qX6ONMdMq0shTF9vyEk6MMhRc6zu6RI__N0JCim1BmWp10Fyc4GO8kN8WZudYhOB_rnSiIzSdZgQK3MSXm32UbTLN8TFWw/s640/IMG_5915.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02PGb7lG6luDucjDPFHaICwr30qvQ9UqeerMCBKhhzY456TCxUjCzo7uAijsf_xvW84Jf0WC6tL1cFfjLP4KHd5htLX7B9qX6ONMdMq0shTF9vyEk6MMhRc6zu6RI__N0JCim1BmWp10Fyc4GO8kN8WZudYhOB_rnSiIzSdZgQK3MSXm32UbTLN8TFWw/w640-h480/IMG_5915.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Turkish defences not only had trenches but also mines and barbed wire at water line. The casemates and pill box you can see in this picture are from the 40s and prepared for eventual WW2 and not contemporaneous of this action. The stone structures to the right are the remnants of one of the piers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_rrooEvQHQRZskcavcvujTa5WZDNwRCYswT2yrKM-6YOY_ddHFuRSgV_hOHRLb6quybc-zNvmWjTxdMC_tgKdC3ssDlFK0p1iI0pe2tjWUA27NWvLPyFow8Z9KXNgE8dJUQsZYaSieSdUzo8cz1MeWWA_epJM5w5cDUhCeZQoHW6C-mUztxmRLQlkIc/s1400/gallipoli_0007-1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1400" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_rrooEvQHQRZskcavcvujTa5WZDNwRCYswT2yrKM-6YOY_ddHFuRSgV_hOHRLb6quybc-zNvmWjTxdMC_tgKdC3ssDlFK0p1iI0pe2tjWUA27NWvLPyFow8Z9KXNgE8dJUQsZYaSieSdUzo8cz1MeWWA_epJM5w5cDUhCeZQoHW6C-mUztxmRLQlkIc/w640-h396/gallipoli_0007-1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Aproximately from the same spot as in the previous picture there is this photo that shows how busy was X beach during the rest of 1915/beggining of 1916. In fact this beach was one of the main evacuation spots for the entire campaign when it was realized how bad things were. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJeHV-zRNwwseRkb6M_0p7PdMUgEpRbJjnEF_91NqMph6xJuxM-SpV-yfGUWe58336u_Gn2QmgW2PxIoFwPg0y3ZWfQiNXnAdBu0bPqSgBEzEpDHGL4cZylJLGhfFMvUHDPMkJbUSZoIT71cGIlgmWX5dvlffcFMAhnqk8o-SC1ETKAjOwQyHTEb7Tnrs/s640/IMG_5916.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJeHV-zRNwwseRkb6M_0p7PdMUgEpRbJjnEF_91NqMph6xJuxM-SpV-yfGUWe58336u_Gn2QmgW2PxIoFwPg0y3ZWfQiNXnAdBu0bPqSgBEzEpDHGL4cZylJLGhfFMvUHDPMkJbUSZoIT71cGIlgmWX5dvlffcFMAhnqk8o-SC1ETKAjOwQyHTEb7Tnrs/w640-h480/IMG_5916.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The beach has a semicircular shape and its quite high on its exits which is ideal for defence. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuo3bKzFPtlNVG6vIds3QdQ4MtNuo44A0Y6GOQ04kNvqml6ymVhOOyrP4yAADS5O0J8nsb9i0WaSlzv58O9K1EkuaP4zTWYbUxa2mP0jYgXNkXUsHga1evPYB_JHtijuaAdNQC5QfsMN8v-hktOlBlgOkZHGnR5PYiMkdh4QlMax5YxUyHxLER_a8mWrA/s640/IMG_5917.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuo3bKzFPtlNVG6vIds3QdQ4MtNuo44A0Y6GOQ04kNvqml6ymVhOOyrP4yAADS5O0J8nsb9i0WaSlzv58O9K1EkuaP4zTWYbUxa2mP0jYgXNkXUsHga1evPYB_JHtijuaAdNQC5QfsMN8v-hktOlBlgOkZHGnR5PYiMkdh4QlMax5YxUyHxLER_a8mWrA/w640-h480/IMG_5917.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">From the beach you can see the road built by the British starting at sand beach level and continuing almost to the top and then to the east. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizdPNoQKmFW5EDz5gH2lipv6Yom6npZ6R_pzqLwf3UgXYxOr2E0rWXGVwuLEeMeMnQLMLbuYwMhn2NL1CTnVJLeOEQ9sWRb7I_UPnC7t-e-h8WSGnl5Uk7ZcYLhfcGf4MGZjaLYKWv0sC8-0H5SWXIY6y-Llmk8jzNUYSGjyLp8a3NuA_T-VScxeUi9JI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizdPNoQKmFW5EDz5gH2lipv6Yom6npZ6R_pzqLwf3UgXYxOr2E0rWXGVwuLEeMeMnQLMLbuYwMhn2NL1CTnVJLeOEQ9sWRb7I_UPnC7t-e-h8WSGnl5Uk7ZcYLhfcGf4MGZjaLYKWv0sC8-0H5SWXIY6y-Llmk8jzNUYSGjyLp8a3NuA_T-VScxeUi9JI=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The second wave of assault, after seeing the dreadful casualties suffered by the first wave decided to veer a bit to the west and disembark at this spot of the beach, very close the casemates built years later. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: British infantry for 1914-15 in Metropolitan uniform.</div></div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-73656505550413928622024-03-04T13:50:00.000-08:002024-03-15T02:41:50.965-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in heerr... 1/1 scale (part 6): V beach on the 25th of April<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrKk99blg4CtKbHL03WLQMDfdkk0gPaMcGVh2PiRbtk1U4biLS-tpumevpGtWVJo-dVHTNID6bwG6Ak80OFAPPRnu7gCHZw4_6CCz3rA0wE32Z21K9MRL6LgYL1JGi5ATi5LRhnf57BYBi595OMcDNP4kxivob2mMCFDu11iuiEkhxkSoEQkXs3BioBg/s541/teste2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="541" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrKk99blg4CtKbHL03WLQMDfdkk0gPaMcGVh2PiRbtk1U4biLS-tpumevpGtWVJo-dVHTNID6bwG6Ak80OFAPPRnu7gCHZw4_6CCz3rA0wE32Z21K9MRL6LgYL1JGi5ATi5LRhnf57BYBi595OMcDNP4kxivob2mMCFDu11iuiEkhxkSoEQkXs3BioBg/w640-h490/teste2.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a general view of V beach at Cape Helles, the place for the landing of the I/ Royal Dublin Fusiliers, I/ Royal Munster Fusiliers and two companies of the II/ Hampshire Regiment on the 25th of April 1915. The Turkish defenders were only around one company of 100 men. They had other companies in reserve to the rear and, specially, several Maxim HMGs placed on both the Sedd-el-Bahr fort (seen close to the horizon line in the centre) and Ertugrul fort (Western side) from were this picture was taken. In previous naval bombardments the 10 artillery pieces of the two forts were mostly silenced. The beach is only 270 m long and very prone to HMG cross-fire. In the 1931 movie "Tell England" you can see the dreadful effect of the Turkish machine guns on the men exiting SS River Clyde through the sally ports and gangways. Years later the famous Omaha beach will have WN 61 and WN72 with their 88mm PAK guns doing the same. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Red arrow- Barbed wire field (only noticed about it after seeing the diorama on the northern defences of V beach); nowadays occupied partially by the local Commonwealth military cemetery. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blue arrow - The place where SS River Clyde, turned into a sort of landing craft, disembarked its soldiers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Green arrow - The sandbank where many Irish and English soldiers looked for shelter (in fact the arrow should be pointing a bit more up and to the left into the darker division on the beach but I still don't know very well how this damn thing works).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1VW0SD8hAn3GjPVY-tPHvZTuDo-Vjc6U7rh4XM7WWNoceaciVd-VYblE4SLo44cIbAXqguYjkcrXbKBnlhLhKxcfdWMoeMX-5Yz5Ke62hMi6a1Zg8Y9-FQtdaRjAx85mpPaXjkd88Ca_9v4ihL6J2noQ6wkOyGOnmZ25lbBzSpbDKw58plJpWnwU3Zu0/s640/IMG_5908.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1VW0SD8hAn3GjPVY-tPHvZTuDo-Vjc6U7rh4XM7WWNoceaciVd-VYblE4SLo44cIbAXqguYjkcrXbKBnlhLhKxcfdWMoeMX-5Yz5Ke62hMi6a1Zg8Y9-FQtdaRjAx85mpPaXjkd88Ca_9v4ihL6J2noQ6wkOyGOnmZ25lbBzSpbDKw58plJpWnwU3Zu0/w480-h640/IMG_5908.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Reconstituted Turkish trenches maybe a bit too perfect. I´ve seen older pictures of the previous set of reconstituted trenches and it looked better than these ones. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUjhnwrWim4cWwI-cty4I5i7_d-NWd5wS7ZZpWHANfvkopAgRQOQloydkvyp3dpJBuzbzCG7tFGblZ-H4ng_AF9BSlHS0yguW2dbLl7gOw4TJkyRBrsy3n4ixEtyB0YKnPKyG_Vi3kjGPebLewZndLUiill_WvEdRs5lU6ge2jIh-BopZsXUV0zmRsew/s640/IMG_5909.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUjhnwrWim4cWwI-cty4I5i7_d-NWd5wS7ZZpWHANfvkopAgRQOQloydkvyp3dpJBuzbzCG7tFGblZ-H4ng_AF9BSlHS0yguW2dbLl7gOw4TJkyRBrsy3n4ixEtyB0YKnPKyG_Vi3kjGPebLewZndLUiill_WvEdRs5lU6ge2jIh-BopZsXUV0zmRsew/w640-h480/IMG_5909.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The view with a true (ex) Turkish soldier (by force) inside. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yrFJfu_uM0FBGel1riXAb975w7n87fBz3wHuSdphjetbHO6mT6fE5dQKoUZTlbz7vAazY_SKxhK1omHCvciF1wpDH_-3fO3QqBoF05gncOYtic-XoJ79utM3iubqixwdupQ3OILFOU2lQI1qKlJ_OWc6ztwYkWBXP_U4WzmBVgb_M-K3L2OHU4TEyYY/s640/IMG_5903.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yrFJfu_uM0FBGel1riXAb975w7n87fBz3wHuSdphjetbHO6mT6fE5dQKoUZTlbz7vAazY_SKxhK1omHCvciF1wpDH_-3fO3QqBoF05gncOYtic-XoJ79utM3iubqixwdupQ3OILFOU2lQI1qKlJ_OWc6ztwYkWBXP_U4WzmBVgb_M-K3L2OHU4TEyYY/w640-h480/IMG_5903.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On the Western side of the defences you can see a nice 1/72nd diorama of the battle. The Fort of Sedd- el-Bahr is shown after the naval bombardment with its partially destroyed walls. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7VwfP5SunzFk4n9wEflVVzjhs0d2YWVsvvnSN9zLBxlffIMEk5J-Rb5iuDneZj8TV2ESpoIXiBl79INoWRQq6MzHQKA5K1d4-xCO9AK3S5vYDPQAN5anSKIvbHuVEpt4H7_8plg4qtM3yvCYER07XLfonP8eJUJAvaWLpRh8ZSfBaeFLOnddePWrnGY/s640/IMG_5904.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7VwfP5SunzFk4n9wEflVVzjhs0d2YWVsvvnSN9zLBxlffIMEk5J-Rb5iuDneZj8TV2ESpoIXiBl79INoWRQq6MzHQKA5K1d4-xCO9AK3S5vYDPQAN5anSKIvbHuVEpt4H7_8plg4qtM3yvCYER07XLfonP8eJUJAvaWLpRh8ZSfBaeFLOnddePWrnGY/w640-h480/IMG_5904.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The SS River Clyde is also in the diorama but a smaller scale model was used. The two machine guns in its makeshift casemates at the bow seemed to have saved the day as they pinned down the Turkish fire or at least didn´t let it becoming even more deadly. The model is very nice and only the unfinished painted sand camouflage on the hull is not there. Also you can see the Turkish trenches and barbed wire closing the beach. The figures used were the obvious HAT Turkish infantry and Airfix British. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKvl9j9N0_Dt4pd0T0EzCyxdokPp59XaOtiD69GFjHaknZUPs_HJ3nwbigTLRx2skR5yHCWC_VzDCq44TeExM9EvZsXnY6Z8Jyebdl0C7fpIKU36q7GXTDbf-oYh4jlapUzyZG7FtXseukKforseYjYR4Qra_9gcVDAF-NuLUvw2PPyLY0_PWjVwEXJM/s640/IMG_5905.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKvl9j9N0_Dt4pd0T0EzCyxdokPp59XaOtiD69GFjHaknZUPs_HJ3nwbigTLRx2skR5yHCWC_VzDCq44TeExM9EvZsXnY6Z8Jyebdl0C7fpIKU36q7GXTDbf-oYh4jlapUzyZG7FtXseukKforseYjYR4Qra_9gcVDAF-NuLUvw2PPyLY0_PWjVwEXJM/w640-h480/IMG_5905.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>With this one I tried to capture the diorama bunker ( in sand yellow) and the true bunker on the western side of the Turkish defences, part of Ertugrul fort. In its interior there were HMGs that coupled with the ones at Sedd-el-Bahr contributed to more than 2000 casualties on the British side. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7Tzz5vayCsgJaPVD1C9opCAdcXwMA-C_CFCngy6X2psNT-ZOElWbcaWTsSHzNAQJs7A3zFHI6zSN_if7pReNh2kg8-OV4OHq5iNiD5EEmH1Wc8NjKcitOA8KKqJ5nUaa6aRLmEhmWjBryKule0y4FcIODFSYGBXOt-Ju9SZ033mgqTQZbJaZ2a6tOz0/s640/V%20beach%20forts%20.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7Tzz5vayCsgJaPVD1C9opCAdcXwMA-C_CFCngy6X2psNT-ZOElWbcaWTsSHzNAQJs7A3zFHI6zSN_if7pReNh2kg8-OV4OHq5iNiD5EEmH1Wc8NjKcitOA8KKqJ5nUaa6aRLmEhmWjBryKule0y4FcIODFSYGBXOt-Ju9SZ033mgqTQZbJaZ2a6tOz0/w640-h480/V%20beach%20forts%20.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Ertugrul fort also had some large guns, like the remains of this 240mm L/35 Krupp fortress gun, but these were apparently put out of combat by the Royal Navy before the landings at V beach. Besides these guns were aimed at the ships not at the beach. </div><div><br /></div><div>For a great article on the Turkish guns at Gallipoli check: </div><div><br /></div><div> https://www.navyingallipoli.com/Artillery_Heavy.asp</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-SvHMLguFqzbtDv3YMSwUKDpnXJY7MoFL__Kd5x7f49nQSG23oT1kIKfxg35bvcIWEeTw0bAHoUmkGyRd3nVR5CbtXl5Nyfn5LcqF8ee6hoASXEx7rI42Lq9z1rUJeJw0hAqQUTGb1eqz5Uamma0nHWmUOuJUKEJeOyd5KGVx731uew4-ROhOJfs9fA/s1024/18730872760_051b2142d6_b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1024" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-SvHMLguFqzbtDv3YMSwUKDpnXJY7MoFL__Kd5x7f49nQSG23oT1kIKfxg35bvcIWEeTw0bAHoUmkGyRd3nVR5CbtXl5Nyfn5LcqF8ee6hoASXEx7rI42Lq9z1rUJeJw0hAqQUTGb1eqz5Uamma0nHWmUOuJUKEJeOyd5KGVx731uew4-ROhOJfs9fA/w640-h442/18730872760_051b2142d6_b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div> This one is a Flickr and was not taken by me but its useful to see the sandbank that stopped many Turkish bullets to reach the British infantry at the beach. In fact in period pictures you can see a dark mass of men.... </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTRyd0j6RWq8G6QmfNFrDy9CFsa62t05AZNMEmmeHKVgAUxpfX1rDB6nqJUjFKxlV2WFDtMNipVdp9CU14Vlt9mxNIL1hpSjX51BS6esTRdZkBEq0vHbxUJg-9B21U1RMX-t5Xo9qpGmk3lThD49xktSRO1fsxi1QJPU5muSV1fRYRq_q6C5bikLCcT4/s1035/Sedd-el-Bahr_from_River_Clyde.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="1035" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTRyd0j6RWq8G6QmfNFrDy9CFsa62t05AZNMEmmeHKVgAUxpfX1rDB6nqJUjFKxlV2WFDtMNipVdp9CU14Vlt9mxNIL1hpSjX51BS6esTRdZkBEq0vHbxUJg-9B21U1RMX-t5Xo9qpGmk3lThD49xktSRO1fsxi1QJPU5muSV1fRYRq_q6C5bikLCcT4/w640-h372/Sedd-el-Bahr_from_River_Clyde.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>... trying to get cover behind this sand bank made by the tides of mother nature. </div><div><br /></div><div>And I know I'm a truly disgusting person, but all my Gallipoli figure's bases are textured with true sand from the several Gelibolu beaches, together with some cat litter !... </div><div><br /></div><div>Next: 1915 British infantry in metropolitan uniform or my visit to W beach. </div><div><p></p></div></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-8690750542454679332024-03-03T01:46:00.000-08:002024-03-03T13:56:05.215-08:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 5): The French 1st Provisional African Regiment <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWsOPEvHl_XtjMEJudbGNRy14OisacjlvB3YXQ_SaIyjMYySwgdkdvGdUhQ_q0O2KECKJq6ewmQFqFKmkm3bZ4b8MyMPRyfWPtQN7hsIHlVU15ZIhydI7iQFf15KGDW08XDh3ZTi2QQMNtXe_QBQwrBfVeDwIYqHoQgtmnMAfTJchy0xBSrdJwQxsWvPI/s2156/1709226814998.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1803" data-original-width="2156" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWsOPEvHl_XtjMEJudbGNRy14OisacjlvB3YXQ_SaIyjMYySwgdkdvGdUhQ_q0O2KECKJq6ewmQFqFKmkm3bZ4b8MyMPRyfWPtQN7hsIHlVU15ZIhydI7iQFf15KGDW08XDh3ZTi2QQMNtXe_QBQwrBfVeDwIYqHoQgtmnMAfTJchy0xBSrdJwQxsWvPI/w640-h536/1709226814998.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 1st Provisional African Regiment ( 1e Régiment de Marche d'Afrique) was the second regiment of 1st Metropolitan Brigade (the 175e RI was the first and you can see a post on it posted some three weeks ago). Building in miniature the Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient is a challenging task as you can´t find as much information as say, the ANZACS, as in fact this was a small business for the French compared to the huge task they had in the Western Front. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIG0p9_nT1lJEXbQtQiY2BN7gi6PCzYmUzXI0zCb5yniFAdKew8g9uQmHoS0f1q_USQfxQm-CZQehSjGSYCBm_KKaK87_PXECtXnrHXk29nfEeGMoWrYAXNeqtl1t6spvA2ExnI4Kr4si3xV7CDozC9HqrHPOGpHIH8jIISET1gTtfI6t_shfGuJm9oS0/s3929/1709226814991.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2800" data-original-width="3929" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIG0p9_nT1lJEXbQtQiY2BN7gi6PCzYmUzXI0zCb5yniFAdKew8g9uQmHoS0f1q_USQfxQm-CZQehSjGSYCBm_KKaK87_PXECtXnrHXk29nfEeGMoWrYAXNeqtl1t6spvA2ExnI4Kr4si3xV7CDozC9HqrHPOGpHIH8jIISET1gTtfI6t_shfGuJm9oS0/w640-h456/1709226814991.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So here is the 1st RMA with one battalion of Foreign Legion and two of Zouaves. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwMeEfJTLp89NYtwGGrO6YjIX4fwtEWhv2bjjALflLMUGIGYJ5T9UNeIkQ2kPI2bgeMaDMl1M0RjANAmoMHnxb_9xrRw2y-CaiQ3E2EXYCdpJk0yXQJcqNdOhVg6-CQ5j-pbUIdO3BzDgXSlQXWVGT3uIVNivD18wwRWn2kJOXfXU_brfIrBi4buzEts/s362/203931e61e6766dc4b36ba1174aa7762.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="355" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwMeEfJTLp89NYtwGGrO6YjIX4fwtEWhv2bjjALflLMUGIGYJ5T9UNeIkQ2kPI2bgeMaDMl1M0RjANAmoMHnxb_9xrRw2y-CaiQ3E2EXYCdpJk0yXQJcqNdOhVg6-CQ5j-pbUIdO3BzDgXSlQXWVGT3uIVNivD18wwRWn2kJOXfXU_brfIrBi4buzEts/w628-h640/203931e61e6766dc4b36ba1174aa7762.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The French Foreign Legion (FFL) at Gallipoli had, apparently, this uniform with the 1897 capote and pith helmet. Funnily enough, or maybe because the FFL participation was rather small with just one battalion, there aren't many period pictures of this unit available. Some period pictures even call FFL to clearly infantry units, probably in the absence of proper pictures. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp8HhTvCikDHjDyW74HZludNDGGlCyAwFaZqdNVEXiYc6R39-hsECB1Jf2wlUPQC0rM6dZl-B1Rtu9oVRvowov3lOBt7MlKyrw_e5YF2Z7TV48NPYINfmMJO5FtWhRb0NtN9k-nHiRCCvdJb01JMYq3G3yEpstwZVv4qEqwiUeF6eLm3gT-32Ym_7eTeI/s3602/1709226815011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="3602" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp8HhTvCikDHjDyW74HZludNDGGlCyAwFaZqdNVEXiYc6R39-hsECB1Jf2wlUPQC0rM6dZl-B1Rtu9oVRvowov3lOBt7MlKyrw_e5YF2Z7TV48NPYINfmMJO5FtWhRb0NtN9k-nHiRCCvdJb01JMYq3G3yEpstwZVv4qEqwiUeF6eLm3gT-32Ym_7eTeI/w640-h154/1709226815011.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">StreletsR already has a few figures in pith helmet and capote in one of the several sets of FFL but they are hard to get these days. So, as usual I went on with some conversions using Airfix, Hat and Esci bodies with British colonial heads. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9eQOp5AGlxNfUzagIXprhxOsgZ70sCzhV4crRAPJd5X_u2-Mk1XPs4KvGZiEZfvMLZwTD9Af2n8zYq8FVot5oSgH13nqHAXGaII40J2rbX4LURqK5Sr6Zqoa5x2_2L4tm2DR1sEM9cJljFO7bi6-2SvSQuP1tGFfertst9Q-zpgKN2XvER7vOJr-LKE/s2020/1709226814959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="2020" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9eQOp5AGlxNfUzagIXprhxOsgZ70sCzhV4crRAPJd5X_u2-Mk1XPs4KvGZiEZfvMLZwTD9Af2n8zYq8FVot5oSgH13nqHAXGaII40J2rbX4LURqK5Sr6Zqoa5x2_2L4tm2DR1sEM9cJljFO7bi6-2SvSQuP1tGFfertst9Q-zpgKN2XvER7vOJr-LKE/w640-h424/1709226814959.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The result is quite nice in my opinion. And, as only 19 figures were necessary, this was a quick job. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2hJ_jSV2MVz98203uv2rJo1sD93sdkxSsBVFSMdNsBHxAYBDvM7q2HsKdWVuXAco6uqV1LS9g7pIccWIeueGkwBQqjHE8Bx0a8oqpNcsP0zmxMIRcAkZVxVcf3Sn6LcNl8WnrJVzrdnKe0ouY_MZ3dIKJXkw0KHDNf1k-hDv71iNFGILm99rzwvfmVc/s1592/1709226815017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="1592" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2hJ_jSV2MVz98203uv2rJo1sD93sdkxSsBVFSMdNsBHxAYBDvM7q2HsKdWVuXAco6uqV1LS9g7pIccWIeueGkwBQqjHE8Bx0a8oqpNcsP0zmxMIRcAkZVxVcf3Sn6LcNl8WnrJVzrdnKe0ouY_MZ3dIKJXkw0KHDNf1k-hDv71iNFGILm99rzwvfmVc/w640-h584/1709226815017.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Hotchkiss MMG has two Hat 1914 figures with new heads. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWaBuAD7fDkt_ksJb0fCKIACyi-65GsJ61NkJomJLQgPXReIHqVDihgnRO745JOEImwxlTc_xFYWMeCUXcTCYTB_CXORR85DL6U2l-ugFTWvbhrFyiEISPb6cLocf-aKOSmCLL8kuV6gXEQzQ119WsmpA_V2A6hLkx_NmHOHOPzfjg5GJUIicvc2c3PA/s1700/1709226814985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="1700" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWaBuAD7fDkt_ksJb0fCKIACyi-65GsJ61NkJomJLQgPXReIHqVDihgnRO745JOEImwxlTc_xFYWMeCUXcTCYTB_CXORR85DL6U2l-ugFTWvbhrFyiEISPb6cLocf-aKOSmCLL8kuV6gXEQzQ119WsmpA_V2A6hLkx_NmHOHOPzfjg5GJUIicvc2c3PA/w640-h568/1709226814985.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I painted the base of the MMG with the light blue color of 1915 equipment simply hoping to be right...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4AjJkSVvbTKXh8ZlpF2iVFlHGKaSbQMSa7ftkN7rAwCw8Ma9zfWA6u4guLk8XoWaEfubBfKJpcnM5gJicF_XWjxv2Jx2kIGvwKPVYU2YQ8YjZDmkqDut67C5sDzhta_ncaUcStBjrWVQpbJcaQ07n98LGSz_5GZ97LAmQnwpsaht-2f0su3tlY55JMW4/s3430/1709420996158.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3430" data-original-width="2567" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4AjJkSVvbTKXh8ZlpF2iVFlHGKaSbQMSa7ftkN7rAwCw8Ma9zfWA6u4guLk8XoWaEfubBfKJpcnM5gJicF_XWjxv2Jx2kIGvwKPVYU2YQ8YjZDmkqDut67C5sDzhta_ncaUcStBjrWVQpbJcaQ07n98LGSz_5GZ97LAmQnwpsaht-2f0su3tlY55JMW4/w478-h640/1709420996158.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In Militaria Nº87 you can have very nice information on the 1915 Zouaves. To the left you have their parade and maneuver uniform (seen in famous picture of those day at Lemnos) and to the right the one they used in combat. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64ZFRY5xeOQGWJOPGVvas77Z880SMw8M-aWPirzC1L7Y-Vndh9JAJHPbphRD9vgsIHrTORn-DgckQrWHa9o4tVALm-nsLEmJNd3eEhSJKDr9U0v_us7O4eh_JvFrTMyxfM-j1hvzxwRcty3-gQ8IjZgblJjDeRen21uMK1XCgrd8i7qeItZoOEBkiR5Q/s2579/1709420996166.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2212" data-original-width="2579" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64ZFRY5xeOQGWJOPGVvas77Z880SMw8M-aWPirzC1L7Y-Vndh9JAJHPbphRD9vgsIHrTORn-DgckQrWHa9o4tVALm-nsLEmJNd3eEhSJKDr9U0v_us7O4eh_JvFrTMyxfM-j1hvzxwRcty3-gQ8IjZgblJjDeRen21uMK1XCgrd8i7qeItZoOEBkiR5Q/w640-h548/1709420996166.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Inside the article you have this colorized picture showing beautifully the Zouave uniform, all khaki, with an iron blue 1877 capote, covered chechia and blue puttees. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBy4pkDjtre-QK9if4rfZQ88U1Lrb6uhG_hIP43_WQY8X1qyi3MKvcXqdyVETa-NwcMAuSVEk_kGLRoWTK8Ucc-WL-mXqLEqIDk4wiz6CrQGpL1lJyLWB-e53XlVMJHrB-iP7M_HNhd2N3bes03564zNX44kGBWbiOBfV4HairjK2fTdRtmMDEZxmbuNo/s2760/1709226814965.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1647" data-original-width="2760" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBy4pkDjtre-QK9if4rfZQ88U1Lrb6uhG_hIP43_WQY8X1qyi3MKvcXqdyVETa-NwcMAuSVEk_kGLRoWTK8Ucc-WL-mXqLEqIDk4wiz6CrQGpL1lJyLWB-e53XlVMJHrB-iP7M_HNhd2N3bes03564zNX44kGBWbiOBfV4HairjK2fTdRtmMDEZxmbuNo/w640-h382/1709226814965.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The only thing I did was to cut the hat peak of the Airfix FFL and Hat 1914 figures and paint two battalions in the above colors. The officer is a Chinese copy of the Airfix French officer with a new right arm from Caesar. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7V1qTTmPs2Ex_mZnEy2rcFIsdQvCLKipjvD6DexpkBq7lma45moK1sPRHGr0IGY62zlyoA8I7x9P2Yab87JurbrR8ukMlEy0ej5CqlKxDQNXZMgEmG-euzK5ABQ6ungeUbEnUHCR4yMJje6tJtL8OiScwz6HGojRWdcBVW_wt9NKNSSpwmenF3TdXLs/s3304/1709226815003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="3304" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7V1qTTmPs2Ex_mZnEy2rcFIsdQvCLKipjvD6DexpkBq7lma45moK1sPRHGr0IGY62zlyoA8I7x9P2Yab87JurbrR8ukMlEy0ej5CqlKxDQNXZMgEmG-euzK5ABQ6ungeUbEnUHCR4yMJje6tJtL8OiScwz6HGojRWdcBVW_wt9NKNSSpwmenF3TdXLs/w640-h356/1709226815003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The same happened to the MMGs stands with the difference of the main server of the gun, and the gun itself. Can you find its origin? No?... C'mon one more chance!... That's right, and congratulations to that old sir in the last row who still has figures from the 70's ! It's exactly the Matchbox Vickers No1 server modelled with Milliputt to look like a Zouave and with the Vickers converted into an Hotchkiss. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HZQ3KD0wz6YuvaYA94sjiTZJ9319HxU-s8D3gA8voSGRgD2i5L8meGa_i0bKj3cuZlwxfoBn78Z7fbpuyqEJxa4CtNNlI40g8TOESEMxJAVQ39F7s1j2XVWKHxH1s0PXC89QUBQsomQFRDpc7D94-yq6F7ggPB6Ij4mFl3bkhrGHjoF5vXLwEwka00M/s3439/1709226814971.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2088" data-original-width="3439" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HZQ3KD0wz6YuvaYA94sjiTZJ9319HxU-s8D3gA8voSGRgD2i5L8meGa_i0bKj3cuZlwxfoBn78Z7fbpuyqEJxa4CtNNlI40g8TOESEMxJAVQ39F7s1j2XVWKHxH1s0PXC89QUBQsomQFRDpc7D94-yq6F7ggPB6Ij4mFl3bkhrGHjoF5vXLwEwka00M/w640-h388/1709226814971.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After a few more cuts and twists here they are looking like reasonable Zouaves. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: Pictures from my visit to V beach of SS River Clyde fame.</div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-28111402246787924812024-02-20T14:53:00.000-08:002024-03-12T06:18:39.079-07:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in heerr... 1/1 scale (part 4): A trip to the Naval events from January to March 1915<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlah5NKO0d3NuDbR4j7fM1fc0lQwaBLAyla4GRJjkVmWChM1hJSvpGv6WNk-wW9ERzh38IRkv1vgIknfArCU5ijrZit8nWqv03npKubrv9eSgK9RU0m61Sgrcvrc74K_IIdPgnc7duqNBg9_oOobAJ9wtHZY4-qb8UrvOfAvf30HhgB8IXEjE9INEWVMo/s640/FullSizeRender_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="640" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlah5NKO0d3NuDbR4j7fM1fc0lQwaBLAyla4GRJjkVmWChM1hJSvpGv6WNk-wW9ERzh38IRkv1vgIknfArCU5ijrZit8nWqv03npKubrv9eSgK9RU0m61Sgrcvrc74K_IIdPgnc7duqNBg9_oOobAJ9wtHZY4-qb8UrvOfAvf30HhgB8IXEjE9INEWVMo/w640-h484/FullSizeRender_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>In the last summer vacations I visited Gallipoli. On the first day I started with the coastal forts along the eastern part of the Gelibolu peninsula. In fact this is almost mandatory as the boat leads you to Kilitbahir, from where everything starts. I took plenty pictures of many forts, and guns but I will keep them for me as there are much better pictures of them in the Web free to see.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Like that I will concentrate this post on rare period photos the guns and emplacements from a small museum (may be temporary exhibition?) close to Kilitbahir coastal forts. These pictures shows some of the Turkish heavy coastal guns that created havoc on the British/French fleet. There was a total of 20 of these big guns of German origin mostly, some were British, in a grand total of 80 guns if counting the smaller calibers. This number was clearly insufficient and the guns were in open emplacements, but even so, due the the Turkish tenacity, the Anglo-French arrogance and some brilliant feats of arms like the one from the Nusrat minelayer, the Allies were forced to go for landing operations on the south and western parts of the Gallipoli peninsula in order to silence the guns and then reach Constantinople. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YU8E91K8EEh0IwF8hC756ymovYqiPfUK1l5zijzPKRe9bcBNZpveeEFCFwrp46gxu7nm7ugIxozbsl80fweGMFMWh4Yz3loABd44mGZu2wFsGEf3HuoBkhzNUEEk5-KDlKshSKn4zfbYCd4T8wH2R9O9QaHraJDd4PuS7Zs9QRbEsoJVXM1X_F_WK0Y/s640/FullSizeRender_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="640" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YU8E91K8EEh0IwF8hC756ymovYqiPfUK1l5zijzPKRe9bcBNZpveeEFCFwrp46gxu7nm7ugIxozbsl80fweGMFMWh4Yz3loABd44mGZu2wFsGEf3HuoBkhzNUEEk5-KDlKshSKn4zfbYCd4T8wH2R9O9QaHraJDd4PuS7Zs9QRbEsoJVXM1X_F_WK0Y/w640-h468/FullSizeRender_3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> A 355mm L/35 Krupp gun. These big ones were used at forts 16, 19 and 20. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnF5u6dHFzpSZ4TkBTcYlZKD2R_H_2YuYpM2b4PoS_UgcPE4pH6ExtE667FcruU_8hxxPh5yJFIGeWC2HM5_Y3iKLDMknKYhmB3j0OGHSiSMVerhyEaCQOLc2_-yP1a1TWo4a-1r3hqHvH5T2iyfiZ4AZ5NGkLpbVeXTUUEJC19PRBRpRrHwcPQJ7dtQ/s640/IMG_5868.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnF5u6dHFzpSZ4TkBTcYlZKD2R_H_2YuYpM2b4PoS_UgcPE4pH6ExtE667FcruU_8hxxPh5yJFIGeWC2HM5_Y3iKLDMknKYhmB3j0OGHSiSMVerhyEaCQOLc2_-yP1a1TWo4a-1r3hqHvH5T2iyfiZ4AZ5NGkLpbVeXTUUEJC19PRBRpRrHwcPQJ7dtQ/w640-h480/IMG_5868.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On the visit to the Military Museum at Istambul I took the picture of a 355mm L/35 were we can see <span style="text-align: left;">the famous future of corporal Seyit carrying on its back a huge shell ( which helped to sink HMS Ocean). The matching of Sayit with this gun is in fact wrong as Seyit and its crew were manning a 240mm L/35 Krupp gun. Sayit</span>, a very powerful man for sure, would have an impossible task when placing the huge 355mm shell into the breech. Eventually, after the battle Sayit was even asked to repeat the feat and place a 240mm shell in the breech by the force of arms and he simply couldn't. Apparently he wasn't lying as the fact had many witnesses and the story proves that soldiers can do incredible things under the stress of battle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoe1W7G_EuzfsBlv5fR6zSDWhJeWuW-FQ6tmMlv7vT9Pi8grAJLGJ8YAofcpUZOAZsDZx4MUP7wI2dQ8OVtQW7sEFF0vHycN10nW-gQZvgA2bPBo-niFtZiJaM6nk93_txn1PsM4oCYlqRN2BIQDIJAb2P4h5bG6eGafW7Ys5KkD8Fb_8WQGsT9eRAeU4/s640/IMG_5870.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoe1W7G_EuzfsBlv5fR6zSDWhJeWuW-FQ6tmMlv7vT9Pi8grAJLGJ8YAofcpUZOAZsDZx4MUP7wI2dQ8OVtQW7sEFF0vHycN10nW-gQZvgA2bPBo-niFtZiJaM6nk93_txn1PsM4oCYlqRN2BIQDIJAb2P4h5bG6eGafW7Ys5KkD8Fb_8WQGsT9eRAeU4/w640-h480/IMG_5870.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The left side of the 355mm gun. Not an easy thing to scratch build :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxn85UK5t1d4LZhhHCwU6k5S2toBYl2UdTpWzpxrPJmj2TKlI435iDq7cxaeJecc96BC10H2BQGaC48b-7EkpLLAytrqwOu5nKT7kIrMTSl6Z_1ugcx2-QFYb2pDnjrQX3sAqELx9WvWlHrofSmvzfcTNVj2Q2N3m8bu-RsCK7HYfunmh96AjSW7S2Pk/s640/FullSizeRender_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="640" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxn85UK5t1d4LZhhHCwU6k5S2toBYl2UdTpWzpxrPJmj2TKlI435iDq7cxaeJecc96BC10H2BQGaC48b-7EkpLLAytrqwOu5nKT7kIrMTSl6Z_1ugcx2-QFYb2pDnjrQX3sAqELx9WvWlHrofSmvzfcTNVj2Q2N3m8bu-RsCK7HYfunmh96AjSW7S2Pk/w640-h440/FullSizeRender_4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 150mm L/26 Krupp guns ( don´t take them for the 150mm Vickers model) of forts 6 and 9. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqiZakp61_G3R5h3hrKgumTIqzl_kdtFJsLOw8p6v4I_i_GmGnHuPHIqEfUjF8qAksciLEUI1hHlVGcBoKZnm0cfi4TK-l_WBpT_WoHrb2xDRQ1fCm1uM0-_PTzW4ft2Zxia8PV1a9kQFSVA_0CyZ574m2cKBH_2d3e0ejx6JcI3RBl72SueNrqOvET4/s640/FullSizeRender_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="640" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqiZakp61_G3R5h3hrKgumTIqzl_kdtFJsLOw8p6v4I_i_GmGnHuPHIqEfUjF8qAksciLEUI1hHlVGcBoKZnm0cfi4TK-l_WBpT_WoHrb2xDRQ1fCm1uM0-_PTzW4ft2Zxia8PV1a9kQFSVA_0CyZ574m2cKBH_2d3e0ejx6JcI3RBl72SueNrqOvET4/w640-h476/FullSizeRender_5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Another view of the same guns. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0VEioZGpA0rgWA5aecaaeiPmI2k6gdltr1uLuh6YR_R4jJQFL1S_6J9XoAwhyphenhyphenSU4F3USYUxiWqNWKBj7WCQ1po95mWCFFCYSsqzTq8_MWON-NpHuQ4Q790O9D1w3SSthkYLdWI1E6WXdRL9IaJx3H8h5cVW8jJ8Ip-u1qj4ytyBNL1vw6UHK0vJA3dg/s640/FullSizeRender_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="640" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0VEioZGpA0rgWA5aecaaeiPmI2k6gdltr1uLuh6YR_R4jJQFL1S_6J9XoAwhyphenhyphenSU4F3USYUxiWqNWKBj7WCQ1po95mWCFFCYSsqzTq8_MWON-NpHuQ4Q790O9D1w3SSthkYLdWI1E6WXdRL9IaJx3H8h5cVW8jJ8Ip-u1qj4ytyBNL1vw6UHK0vJA3dg/w640-h414/FullSizeRender_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 150mm L/26 in detail. The equipments and uniforms of the personnel involved in these period pictures also shows the variety and also the differences between ordinary artillerymen and officers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZsyyRou6zB-TworWTlT2IN6NTYthgNHlHSWVaznCbwgvVaQomYsh1RxtgdT3t9QP9qdc7sCJKWdZg1XGhRoDWaL7QrVq9VbBQ8AdZDEQ_2wK585N19rhkLD_4hkZv21Y760kY_8kLVGnYUtAFnTHyHGRpxEJMwMnXodI0OQSpelYq6zzvixRuyxFJNk/s640/IMG_5897.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZsyyRou6zB-TworWTlT2IN6NTYthgNHlHSWVaznCbwgvVaQomYsh1RxtgdT3t9QP9qdc7sCJKWdZg1XGhRoDWaL7QrVq9VbBQ8AdZDEQ_2wK585N19rhkLD_4hkZv21Y760kY_8kLVGnYUtAFnTHyHGRpxEJMwMnXodI0OQSpelYq6zzvixRuyxFJNk/w480-h640/IMG_5897.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Remains of Turkish Trenches facing the Dardanelles close to Çimenlik castle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkrpVEEpUmZpYXr1FsZ_PzltAMyKk16lCMjALIC7Ir2M4yODvYR3uomG5II4ItcPqiqdESCRzaJMW-tvVCf4tHNZKYs0LfOVTqK7JMMj8nncP0RvxamcBnzUz-tO2M2IKmR3KMhcvwBvem5eKw1sWW-KyrrezAELweHsWEMZh2AFpe3hqT-IGEqIXWsM/s640/IMG_5955.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkrpVEEpUmZpYXr1FsZ_PzltAMyKk16lCMjALIC7Ir2M4yODvYR3uomG5II4ItcPqiqdESCRzaJMW-tvVCf4tHNZKYs0LfOVTqK7JMMj8nncP0RvxamcBnzUz-tO2M2IKmR3KMhcvwBvem5eKw1sWW-KyrrezAELweHsWEMZh2AFpe3hqT-IGEqIXWsM/w480-h640/IMG_5955.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Just for the sake of curiosity, and to see the power of the naval allied fleet, you can see in an inner wall of Çimenlik castle and unexploded shell (yellow light) that bounced inside the castle and left a path of destruction. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: part 2 for the British beaches or a quick re-entering at WW2 North Africa. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br />João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-68400932127856005582024-02-16T15:32:00.000-08:002024-02-16T15:33:48.078-08:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 3): The British with Kitchener´s helmet and KD uniform<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBe-bo9QykUoIJJ6fKciyGb3DDeixioZULxItwGlMpoCWcRoq8wyyhiZkHOGpWh0KWZdSw3tGaiKXrHVtf_Jmlt0VJYjGzDwPhx5SOo-xUe34SPdr9MTmrWQeuZezNMCWixXfzjE2bTEPvMIMGr47BPXJz4FQjPRKWAaeVzruHZKM4RQiYxyC3t2CNZ-Y/s2936/1708095339825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="2936" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBe-bo9QykUoIJJ6fKciyGb3DDeixioZULxItwGlMpoCWcRoq8wyyhiZkHOGpWh0KWZdSw3tGaiKXrHVtf_Jmlt0VJYjGzDwPhx5SOo-xUe34SPdr9MTmrWQeuZezNMCWixXfzjE2bTEPvMIMGr47BPXJz4FQjPRKWAaeVzruHZKM4RQiYxyC3t2CNZ-Y/w640-h334/1708095339825.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I made these British for Gallipoli years ago and now it was time for some GWSH II rebasing. The figures are conversions using Esci parts, WW2 desert British bodies with Esci Colonial heads. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmH-QfparxmNcwX6t622omElxkfvkDlPCacK_P2VGC644Hom-IlimrHGoiTiAPToxvOC3Cyu2dMxe9qZ1UkDM8viIsivGMRWVqRbHiefZiCNhLUxK17Kbh7qonsMbNQprZ4iw99D9dDijSJbGOFLuWGbwvrbDcRy4puXma2URkqrda3qal_SPBzZ3uI0g/s2734/1708095339788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1669" data-original-width="2734" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmH-QfparxmNcwX6t622omElxkfvkDlPCacK_P2VGC644Hom-IlimrHGoiTiAPToxvOC3Cyu2dMxe9qZ1UkDM8viIsivGMRWVqRbHiefZiCNhLUxK17Kbh7qonsMbNQprZ4iw99D9dDijSJbGOFLuWGbwvrbDcRy4puXma2URkqrda3qal_SPBzZ3uI0g/w640-h390/1708095339788.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The result is not the best as the Wolseley´s helmet was larger than the late XIX century one from Esci. Even so they gave me some work and, just because of that, they entered the shelves. There are two different command stands as the one with the piper can go to any of the brigades of the 52nd division. The machine gunners are Esci WW2 British with half of the ammunition pouches cut out. The same happened to all figures. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgZ9q3JWqMP7Kgh4OFAt0blb2-5zCT_46zV2QOnzZVXLZ2Ybl2ia9Di75rOFyyJxwQoO_93V2QVUBnawt4I0Oru20mcjhpkEu9XJU9K8q5GFaza_1S_9QThvqVZyid2os5U4qEcVQeWFamrUdbl7KeqvA0qqGxWpP-QeDJRD9VUZwydCO1oiVs69p7dw/s976/_87278119_hi003236780.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgZ9q3JWqMP7Kgh4OFAt0blb2-5zCT_46zV2QOnzZVXLZ2Ybl2ia9Di75rOFyyJxwQoO_93V2QVUBnawt4I0Oru20mcjhpkEu9XJU9K8q5GFaza_1S_9QThvqVZyid2os5U4qEcVQeWFamrUdbl7KeqvA0qqGxWpP-QeDJRD9VUZwydCO1oiVs69p7dw/w640-h360/_87278119_hi003236780.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The newer Hat industries WW1 British tropical infantry box depicts very well the Gallipoli units equipped with the KD uniform. Mine are just in shirt order but in the future, while expanding the army, I´ll try to get some of the Hat tropical infantry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieigN4RUmlJ7Rwq5QdLW8cp89e14cxuGsdSnyaKfHvg5uNqmzYlW2nZ2eeG8aExaYgsCkUkX7Lr74v6SkTQ9aB_2LPTk7knITQno34GfZRgLTnfC4dIQFArvoW3j8pqQXu-9bLxgnIGdkz-NnVWx4yoQ9VTigY2dzyWI5CqCrZoLmqMawC0T4NJtVxJXw/s865/default.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="865" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieigN4RUmlJ7Rwq5QdLW8cp89e14cxuGsdSnyaKfHvg5uNqmzYlW2nZ2eeG8aExaYgsCkUkX7Lr74v6SkTQ9aB_2LPTk7knITQno34GfZRgLTnfC4dIQFArvoW3j8pqQXu-9bLxgnIGdkz-NnVWx4yoQ9VTigY2dzyWI5CqCrZoLmqMawC0T4NJtVxJXw/w640-h462/default.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Even if the British were much more careful with the uniform than say the Anzacs, after some time in the Gallipoli trenches their look was not the same upon the arrival. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlR7-h6cqP6HsjSPp1HdZLbFiJNFuxD5Jfe9In-PUEP0Na0mCvz_IEFVrmQPaswGFcWx17b2j4kB-_THuut_PAHSobbQ7x-6PaAIKEjyTVbuQqltdw15lwdf3Hjc-wcBzb7eYOi5lFrF1RqyJTFREut8KyfPNBipkEKIrJTo_dJZ5lcyR_kxgG2BW7HOc/s1280/kiwi3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlR7-h6cqP6HsjSPp1HdZLbFiJNFuxD5Jfe9In-PUEP0Na0mCvz_IEFVrmQPaswGFcWx17b2j4kB-_THuut_PAHSobbQ7x-6PaAIKEjyTVbuQqltdw15lwdf3Hjc-wcBzb7eYOi5lFrF1RqyJTFREut8KyfPNBipkEKIrJTo_dJZ5lcyR_kxgG2BW7HOc/w640-h480/kiwi3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Another possibility is to use the figures as Anzacs (see the left figure). Obviously the piper is out. <div><br /></div><div>Left: a small break in the Gallipoli series with some more WW2 British for the Western Desert. </div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-23200457870222995542024-02-12T14:59:00.000-08:002024-02-16T15:32:54.280-08:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 2): The French 175e RI<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fIy-l6f3GI26koxlq8yV5xboxn75h0vmdssFPwmTBEMpbd3MySEk-g5-vcoxa8r5hXWYf1k7bCAwmc8wLliCUMz-t3nMkB35DdBoRl_uAF_1dbIA6V3v_vUzQhnioBrVe3WlU7QXMkGgIT_l31Cp3hNXfVQ2wKi6FZPgmBGdmCiMhS1aav_7_4VHxXA/s3353/1707741170649.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="3353" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fIy-l6f3GI26koxlq8yV5xboxn75h0vmdssFPwmTBEMpbd3MySEk-g5-vcoxa8r5hXWYf1k7bCAwmc8wLliCUMz-t3nMkB35DdBoRl_uAF_1dbIA6V3v_vUzQhnioBrVe3WlU7QXMkGgIT_l31Cp3hNXfVQ2wKi6FZPgmBGdmCiMhS1aav_7_4VHxXA/w640-h314/1707741170649.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Not only Anzacs and British troops were at Gallipoli fighting the Turkish army. There was also a divisional size ( two, in august) from day one (25th of april, 1915), first at the Asian side at Kum Kale (the Sand Castle) and transferred a few days later a bit to the north of Sedd-Ul-Bahr of the SS River Clyde collier fame. <span style="text-align: left;">The 175e RI was one of the four regiments of the 1st Division of the Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient among other colorful units like Zouaves, Foreign Legion and Senegalese soldiers. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1xK40CTV1XuBIarnqWMGKq_NhdfH3C0EUDEdOQODo0LdhKRWNU7XAF5jz8jGlw5GbMTONd2Gm3Dsm8f5Fhyphenhyphen5iA-V9aUtVYZavhDFK0CLdUU-SdmMf5giUr9p4jwXRumxIFllAMKEoyzEeZE9mtJElGeLGPUXzO6QZ1eTMI2cvnTSLfEK5eP_NiVn1V4/s2679/1707741170643.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1581" data-original-width="2679" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1xK40CTV1XuBIarnqWMGKq_NhdfH3C0EUDEdOQODo0LdhKRWNU7XAF5jz8jGlw5GbMTONd2Gm3Dsm8f5Fhyphenhyphen5iA-V9aUtVYZavhDFK0CLdUU-SdmMf5giUr9p4jwXRumxIFllAMKEoyzEeZE9mtJElGeLGPUXzO6QZ1eTMI2cvnTSLfEK5eP_NiVn1V4/w640-h378/1707741170643.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 175e RI was one of the four regiments of the 1st Division of the Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient. The Adrian Helmet is still a few months away but the horizon blue capote is already distributed even if in a lighter tone than in the future. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The figures are all HAT WW1 Early French Infantry with the exception of a few officers taken from the Esci box of the Foreign legion (right figure in the command stand, with bent arm). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_wF3zNgP7IPE8yNM6rYOiSvsKKjNZ7PhD6p4DaYuNP6L2Xj5p7RjQuaTzc2DnGqfEhAEDQZyYwuT01AVtt0RiWA5cgWcMQ9aZgQiWCqfpUgNWoO84YPKATavqZuBFHgpDSMurwyaavCprqCQh8J63-CidCz6IjBaDBcUu7vm3_kqBnZqQHWOucisJYWM/s4000/1707747312133.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_wF3zNgP7IPE8yNM6rYOiSvsKKjNZ7PhD6p4DaYuNP6L2Xj5p7RjQuaTzc2DnGqfEhAEDQZyYwuT01AVtt0RiWA5cgWcMQ9aZgQiWCqfpUgNWoO84YPKATavqZuBFHgpDSMurwyaavCprqCQh8J63-CidCz6IjBaDBcUu7vm3_kqBnZqQHWOucisJYWM/w477-h640/1707747312133.jpg" width="477" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This picture came from Militaria magazine No 21 (1987, my goodness) and they are from an article about the 1915 Poilu. The text and photos mentions brown trousers and I went for it in this group. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsdv7cIfAu69Z4shAY3yw911nWAbaUgaJIQYZyoD7pCXFSyzuA9uzTIHmAjP4C50Q1hXKrbOHx7qod-oMmczLxaH4b7rINVi0-xjb6rAwOBr4GUtXJvyHC0G4O-eK7XuWGa_p00HtGCmUqZ-L3637jcXXswl_H4rEENUq3u9hSTq2uRsIf-6Jiyfy5k0/s600/legion-orient-1915-alexandrie-drapeau%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsdv7cIfAu69Z4shAY3yw911nWAbaUgaJIQYZyoD7pCXFSyzuA9uzTIHmAjP4C50Q1hXKrbOHx7qod-oMmczLxaH4b7rINVi0-xjb6rAwOBr4GUtXJvyHC0G4O-eK7XuWGa_p00HtGCmUqZ-L3637jcXXswl_H4rEENUq3u9hSTq2uRsIf-6Jiyfy5k0/w640-h426/legion-orient-1915-alexandrie-drapeau%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I also got some inspiration from this picture taken in Egypt in which the trousers look to have a different tone than horizon blue. Which in fact may only be the shadow. Well, this is one of the beauties of our hobby, sometimes you will never know.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaAXM4L4Zz6agzUszIVAm5KHBhIAgVzOwwpctW4un9Jp4Ceia9Y8KY-dMN0pZgePC3Noh23c1htTOUkX8UJHzmSUD_rmH_4EscyWeMuLP60-hXHQEoDKeYBoD-eVO0vbxO3XqtQnkStthCecvo4jCxvpD4MeqbaNxeU4q5gG9RBq4CpmO5L6cbNklFkM/s2518/1707741170637.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="2518" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaAXM4L4Zz6agzUszIVAm5KHBhIAgVzOwwpctW4un9Jp4Ceia9Y8KY-dMN0pZgePC3Noh23c1htTOUkX8UJHzmSUD_rmH_4EscyWeMuLP60-hXHQEoDKeYBoD-eVO0vbxO3XqtQnkStthCecvo4jCxvpD4MeqbaNxeU4q5gG9RBq4CpmO5L6cbNklFkM/w640-h384/1707741170637.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My late father built, among thousands of 1/43 cars, slot cars, HO trains, some 50 TAP (Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa) and FAP (Força Aérea Portuguesa). Most of them were kits and were given to friends after my father's passing but I kept all the scratch-built ones as they are true works of art. Luckily, there was also this 1/72 scale Farman MF 11 Shorthorn in the survivors, also completely scratch-built, that somewhat resembles the Farman F40 used by the MF98T squadron of the <span style="text-align: justify;">Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXaoEnf6GccquDruX9DZq8EM6hfx_5kgklgmG0ZFRwvA0d7APdH4SZ-UGZuDtKe2NEa_oa1aSyqtjZhggNGFu_B0l2PEFjoJjLE4Xm4AlfeHXxKNFmbI7_dYD3aabMH8QorkgQvzQo2ZZAGVCBf4B9F5RRYT6-82-BDlSOetd0_DMYq1eh2PLuJkgMHY/s3486/1707741170624.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3486" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXaoEnf6GccquDruX9DZq8EM6hfx_5kgklgmG0ZFRwvA0d7APdH4SZ-UGZuDtKe2NEa_oa1aSyqtjZhggNGFu_B0l2PEFjoJjLE4Xm4AlfeHXxKNFmbI7_dYD3aabMH8QorkgQvzQo2ZZAGVCBf4B9F5RRYT6-82-BDlSOetd0_DMYq1eh2PLuJkgMHY/w640-h388/1707741170624.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I only added an MG and the crew made out of old Airfix figures. The wings are made of wood and covered in tissue, like the real thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjejyY3Avtn0C3L8cp82EiSfNx8jgEH44G6A5nIdSg5uD5-ASsjBBO-aISCcceC7DlLPYemgiTzKqeFcABwKmfM8-vXMoiM2AW8Ktilkj2MtOWnIpZ6bJSTsx4l6b7Em05d2gPERG5q3cI_cYO7_awjJBP_OYiElVDBuoJFM3_W0uB_Odqj3BW25NJ4uw/s3462/1707741170631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2232" data-original-width="3462" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjejyY3Avtn0C3L8cp82EiSfNx8jgEH44G6A5nIdSg5uD5-ASsjBBO-aISCcceC7DlLPYemgiTzKqeFcABwKmfM8-vXMoiM2AW8Ktilkj2MtOWnIpZ6bJSTsx4l6b7Em05d2gPERG5q3cI_cYO7_awjJBP_OYiElVDBuoJFM3_W0uB_Odqj3BW25NJ4uw/w640-h412/1707741170631.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Also some french colors were painted on top of the portuguese ones. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqtHKZt_NOSqdHPxwA7gSmSUMLsgTkwzEtfOIMiR8LqtDZkj15uf46DyS-A7N0SxN-lVC0N8zHrgIHPw0TovOv7H-rlg9fb0dFW0N0igMengE3Eg1ZLCDuY2iGVl2OaF_GlKo6cZ1PmNUXJLdcxkg-1v-gBpniQWy7CJtvNRILRygYWThcXt9IMLRE-P8/s2512/1707777331810.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="2512" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqtHKZt_NOSqdHPxwA7gSmSUMLsgTkwzEtfOIMiR8LqtDZkj15uf46DyS-A7N0SxN-lVC0N8zHrgIHPw0TovOv7H-rlg9fb0dFW0N0igMengE3Eg1ZLCDuY2iGVl2OaF_GlKo6cZ1PmNUXJLdcxkg-1v-gBpniQWy7CJtvNRILRygYWThcXt9IMLRE-P8/w640-h390/1707777331810.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My father only had this two pictures of the farman MF11 taken from the book Aviões da Cruz de Cristo. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju56gtSGu57TyyTY6ZUG7EzrjuJKcTMTk3TD8nBKJ6Rc4ntvXkXJhcPnmJGZBtjz-Ab6j_14x7DEQHWclN3HiQpPJzsBp5R6fIStsR3nIkY7JIulBLj-ZMw_82Wv4nllLomtIt8JT3qFFo8DptZNKdFiCrjhlloP1XoAi7d9ylR97f7AQJOpjxUV5gwvs/s2234/1707777331822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1578" data-original-width="2234" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju56gtSGu57TyyTY6ZUG7EzrjuJKcTMTk3TD8nBKJ6Rc4ntvXkXJhcPnmJGZBtjz-Ab6j_14x7DEQHWclN3HiQpPJzsBp5R6fIStsR3nIkY7JIulBLj-ZMw_82Wv4nllLomtIt8JT3qFFo8DptZNKdFiCrjhlloP1XoAi7d9ylR97f7AQJOpjxUV5gwvs/w640-h452/1707777331822.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Farman MF11 is the one on top while the smaller Farman F40, used at Gallipoli, is at the bottom. They look similar but in fact the F40 only has one rudder which makes the two machines very different. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNB9aCmUdLRjYbaUP-93ZcdEBvu4HCyu1X8HrcITeuimMvaIa018xWhpDivNigVoCZ9FDuOqcXaBZlOPXXMa5tfX2LI-0e9huEycuc0JpplN6-IF3FBzLnsjc7Mc0yp6qvdBR1dDbheHwh28LXacZlzmychRIMT06PXbpesrUshXVwZQD9jcrh245kLw/s640/blogger-image--482685760.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNB9aCmUdLRjYbaUP-93ZcdEBvu4HCyu1X8HrcITeuimMvaIa018xWhpDivNigVoCZ9FDuOqcXaBZlOPXXMa5tfX2LI-0e9huEycuc0JpplN6-IF3FBzLnsjc7Mc0yp6qvdBR1dDbheHwh28LXacZlzmychRIMT06PXbpesrUshXVwZQD9jcrh245kLw/w640-h480/blogger-image--482685760.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My dear father. Love you every day, miss you every day. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-66595371723059483382024-01-31T06:41:00.000-08:002024-02-16T15:33:11.911-08:00Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 1): The Turkish army <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mVgihbwpSa0CHD6qA3-QBhOFtDSyBcqdjFV-X0F-K8s4j9pFWmKyvAzcbpAiTMFGovsNz4hbXsSOYUoXwwYgyNjWykV30RzuPO__fV2a5ootBEPRmGzA3TRqBEt69sG2iBzS9eqwkLhBMDu8-dz1abx_74QAx1PpurZ5FgtyPk9I1ZgduCa9Y0bSQiA/s2213/1706707938141.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1954" data-original-width="2213" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mVgihbwpSa0CHD6qA3-QBhOFtDSyBcqdjFV-X0F-K8s4j9pFWmKyvAzcbpAiTMFGovsNz4hbXsSOYUoXwwYgyNjWykV30RzuPO__fV2a5ootBEPRmGzA3TRqBEt69sG2iBzS9eqwkLhBMDu8-dz1abx_74QAx1PpurZ5FgtyPk9I1ZgduCa9Y0bSQiA/w640-h566/1706707938141.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">More than 20 years ago, still not knowing that Hat industries was on the way, I made up a Turkish WW1 small army from the Esci British colonials, Atlantic and Airfix Japanese infantry and copies of the WW2 hard plastic Soviets from Esci. Later on, Hat released its two boxes of WW1 Turkish figures (infantry and artillery+MGs) and I found my old conversions to be better hidden in some boxes. Recently I visited Gallipoli (Turkish Gelibolu) and the interest for Turkía in WW1 was reignited. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9wgctOCDxkJ-GILv7YAnMkzFzhKyZnm6X8QK_8bQZsix7qh684gGbFNJYEN4auqs8UbocaGQohlhz1b_hkbjq3yq-fp9iEEA8Cqj0n1MblJHadb8T3NnhxpsSvpE1AYMNKSyj076vN06W5osHyq1jkag7ATAlABM3ogdi2yT16cmC7l1EzYfZl1SYwo/s3406/1706707938130.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="3406" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9wgctOCDxkJ-GILv7YAnMkzFzhKyZnm6X8QK_8bQZsix7qh684gGbFNJYEN4auqs8UbocaGQohlhz1b_hkbjq3yq-fp9iEEA8Cqj0n1MblJHadb8T3NnhxpsSvpE1AYMNKSyj076vN06W5osHyq1jkag7ATAlABM3ogdi2yT16cmC7l1EzYfZl1SYwo/w640-h562/1706707938130.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With these old figures two full regiments and (right) the divisional rifle battalion were made for Shawn Taylor´s GWSH II. The pair of Hat Turkish boxes are on the way from Italy and it will allow me to make the 3rd and last infantry regiment for the division and add a few more artillery and HMGs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvX0NqsZ65Vn-gtjxMY8f2309pKMEDfB2_N_T7aGeWfD92SKUw-HKevbKUbIKNJz9xcd5OsXCX43JI1egN_Uzh95DobbBRiquaA01WyBIHKuQC8FiMNoBcOS5YPKsIKiUloCeSsUV1NHaF73t518JwLM4Ej2R3NFc7laAGz139eal5BsRjOyA7yjMTORk/s3215/1706707938116.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2715" data-original-width="3215" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvX0NqsZ65Vn-gtjxMY8f2309pKMEDfB2_N_T7aGeWfD92SKUw-HKevbKUbIKNJz9xcd5OsXCX43JI1egN_Uzh95DobbBRiquaA01WyBIHKuQC8FiMNoBcOS5YPKsIKiUloCeSsUV1NHaF73t518JwLM4Ej2R3NFc7laAGz139eal5BsRjOyA7yjMTORk/w640-h540/1706707938116.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Esci British colonial officers were also converted to divisional and regimental standard bearers. All british colonial helmets got a few small cuts at the front so they can look more to the Turkish M1909 Kabalak, in fact a piece of cloth wrapped in a specific way around a wooden structure. The other officers are the Russian Esci copies, some with the Kabalak, others with the Kalpak. The Kalpak was made using heads of the Esci Hussars. All flags are hand painted. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWohpXzoAoSxqlkk16lOuVHNU9t4OtoJmzJHC5ZCPdqncsoNRvhyphenhyphenOzzs9fE6PaWhxmfhwxdPcMFpwzyk7GRAKFa2wqrCs3IXwaCCcUYodZNGxknYzQinVAlWIUr4i5z65cYSunKOObWXDMmSWEcJu-6eOwcXKouXMWpuQtf__MFbBjn9WvhRVP96ns8M/s2114/1706707938109.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="2114" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWohpXzoAoSxqlkk16lOuVHNU9t4OtoJmzJHC5ZCPdqncsoNRvhyphenhyphenOzzs9fE6PaWhxmfhwxdPcMFpwzyk7GRAKFa2wqrCs3IXwaCCcUYodZNGxknYzQinVAlWIUr4i5z65cYSunKOObWXDMmSWEcJu-6eOwcXKouXMWpuQtf__MFbBjn9WvhRVP96ns8M/w640-h450/1706707938109.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Also some flags were added to a few battalion stands with Airfix Japanese used for cornets and flag bearers. The Japanese field cap is easily cut to look like the red Fez, still in use in WW1 even if in dwindling numbers. To the right an Atlantic Japanese officer was also converted. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR43sOapek-V5LGqzOxBKeuShhXW2ZHVCMIMSrwV4yzJhG50MmTp9Ff_o3AjXEWVqFLS34218GL4sDOzBQS3gWqPguFV_0j_51dgJKOfvw6HM2g5f8srF-3yuKRYxSDStZyhaWv4cmdPTRo5pRo3ugs3bVH5aHADNsH4vt7RdWCPziN8Vr90UiSWouSx4/s2057/1706707938096.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1420" data-original-width="2057" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR43sOapek-V5LGqzOxBKeuShhXW2ZHVCMIMSrwV4yzJhG50MmTp9Ff_o3AjXEWVqFLS34218GL4sDOzBQS3gWqPguFV_0j_51dgJKOfvw6HM2g5f8srF-3yuKRYxSDStZyhaWv4cmdPTRo5pRo3ugs3bVH5aHADNsH4vt7RdWCPziN8Vr90UiSWouSx4/w640-h442/1706707938096.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Esci colonial infantry became WW1 Turks. Some got a Fez from converted heads with Napoleonic shakoes, others saw the Kalabak made from the already mentioned cuts at the front (small) peak of the Esci colonial helmet. The big difference from the true Turkish uniform are the puttees but somehow they get slightly disguised with the <i>en masse</i> looks... at least I like to think that way. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgydfEth6J9hOcewVR64tk5SFCy46vz89tPzoWqfvq6IfRXIk75R3IWN3Gx1GE-97gT5wJC_dOmq_3KEchyphenhyphenSy5IjZ6mEig_-FeM_AOlGG4jFJZoF4EWSopdLK-pTqiBe_TtSjWUyV0r25c6jBYifpW_TxhDphEBXo8s8XmcAp6Nl7apYYqMeK5siiKOZow/s2762/1706707938103.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="2762" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgydfEth6J9hOcewVR64tk5SFCy46vz89tPzoWqfvq6IfRXIk75R3IWN3Gx1GE-97gT5wJC_dOmq_3KEchyphenhyphenSy5IjZ6mEig_-FeM_AOlGG4jFJZoF4EWSopdLK-pTqiBe_TtSjWUyV0r25c6jBYifpW_TxhDphEBXo8s8XmcAp6Nl7apYYqMeK5siiKOZow/w640-h490/1706707938103.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Hotchkiss HMGs came from the Atlantic Japanese set and the crew from the Esci British colonials. The HMG firer is the figure pulling an ammo box converted here as to be firing the gun (sort of). The guns look a bit like cannons and will be replaced by the Hat ones (German 08s, which were much more common). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnxicr4AgcnOccsQrakIHJ0PBxYz36LA4fV6KzBLztzj0oWVXe28YYfzyUvr8aNpP9iz_8ULufObThNK_0Xfu2ZFl2-zw7uiUspDOh_hmyr0038z4UUezWHPFAnrssNU-TNWjwM0VZ8XmGis4TsKoCHAFYq6uzV4phrjcWJjhKqCT_QlF1BgMX0_Br7U/s2394/1706707938081.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2020" data-original-width="2394" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnxicr4AgcnOccsQrakIHJ0PBxYz36LA4fV6KzBLztzj0oWVXe28YYfzyUvr8aNpP9iz_8ULufObThNK_0Xfu2ZFl2-zw7uiUspDOh_hmyr0038z4UUezWHPFAnrssNU-TNWjwM0VZ8XmGis4TsKoCHAFYq6uzV4phrjcWJjhKqCT_QlF1BgMX0_Br7U/w640-h540/1706707938081.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The German 77mm guns are IT Figures with Irregular Miniatures crew. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4LkFQwW7iwiBr_eRVWNiemebYLKoE-AcsXqxkgEE8FweqAA9FiYDTzabTWM3YLwbxBSYtA7msWilmmIW3AyFFR6awZpOxARmdMsqmc8oHFkz_-4R323irpIiEZN6FjNWBwbUzoyKZNFzyS_bEg9sn3l1r7zUo-_jj8-kQItj-45BZhuDwz9z_gRGC0s/s2766/1706707938091.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2001" data-original-width="2766" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4LkFQwW7iwiBr_eRVWNiemebYLKoE-AcsXqxkgEE8FweqAA9FiYDTzabTWM3YLwbxBSYtA7msWilmmIW3AyFFR6awZpOxARmdMsqmc8oHFkz_-4R323irpIiEZN6FjNWBwbUzoyKZNFzyS_bEg9sn3l1r7zUo-_jj8-kQItj-45BZhuDwz9z_gRGC0s/w640-h462/1706707938091.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The 15cm Krupp 1880 and crew are all Irregular Miniatures with Arab crews. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: Depends on the mail but eventually the first video on the Iraqis 1990. </div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-91502618937943714392024-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:002024-01-26T12:37:52.598-08:00Impetus Rules - Mohacs 1526, part 10 - A batch of Ottoman infantry from Lucky Toys in 20mm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibpFD54wd4NTyIim9gkYTLi_XOOnpYiLQ-Ra4dZAgcm7LLfTEPNIJ6rbzS8w-p6tV4dejyn_7bt7pxhJU_bQM1vXJHFskxM9J151yXGO0XRkUKR1_EgwHYcJsDpOb6xcw4ucQyzzicwWHpL_j195jyHkB141HUs7lmzI0CGLJSx3wpTWtUkt5Dl7lVFw/s3755/1706266309420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="3755" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibpFD54wd4NTyIim9gkYTLi_XOOnpYiLQ-Ra4dZAgcm7LLfTEPNIJ6rbzS8w-p6tV4dejyn_7bt7pxhJU_bQM1vXJHFskxM9J151yXGO0XRkUKR1_EgwHYcJsDpOb6xcw4ucQyzzicwWHpL_j195jyHkB141HUs7lmzI0CGLJSx3wpTWtUkt5Dl7lVFw/w640-h342/1706266309420.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="text-align: justify;">Lucky Toys have a nice box of Ottomans mixing both infantry (less the Janissaries) and cavalry. The figures are some of the best I´ve seen in 20mm and their faces are true works of art (Lucky Toys is affiliated with Caesar somehow). The figures are best for the previous century and for the campaign that led to the fall of Constantinople but they fit reasonably well for the campaign of 1526. My Lucky Toys cavalry was made years ago already and the swords and maces were replaced by spears, a more proper weapon for the XVI century. </span></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-5b8paJNaB2e6YN61wT9y8VAZraDFKs3GT6oJV7bJolll4xO9K1WBuB11CBRIcsyeyihsbB4zUNWarTZgUuqVCiihJieatA4kh-YjGPdfT_PiOXFmmcwJ6yUXVdd5XIcuTMYcnFeHc2OqXpg0ykpBpChFyWmRz5POYIcMRT9ATgHacxG8_-p6NFgyds/s2509/1706266309409.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2300" data-original-width="2509" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-5b8paJNaB2e6YN61wT9y8VAZraDFKs3GT6oJV7bJolll4xO9K1WBuB11CBRIcsyeyihsbB4zUNWarTZgUuqVCiihJieatA4kh-YjGPdfT_PiOXFmmcwJ6yUXVdd5XIcuTMYcnFeHc2OqXpg0ykpBpChFyWmRz5POYIcMRT9ATgHacxG8_-p6NFgyds/w640-h586/1706266309409.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These heavy infantry figures belong to the Kapi Kulu corps and will be placed close to the Janissaries. Most of the shields were bent with fire for more frontal protection. I thought about replacing the axes and swords with spears but maybe i´ll do it in a next batch I find. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrT9NpSSW9h_RK2qn3rve6-FjT_JdsQQ6zGNdC8NWaeHF6wUFCYTa8q0uGeq_1dhTxOLuS9Wt_bQOiGjDhbuAoBPixm-eYfL1M-SD731eZyB2ppq0KKx-fm7VPnsJIaZucpDo2Yoco-EJP2Ew4o37uozwpDt5uA43vhA4mRXR4hNORDmYEYZ9-CE74S20/s1849/1706266309398.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1849" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrT9NpSSW9h_RK2qn3rve6-FjT_JdsQQ6zGNdC8NWaeHF6wUFCYTa8q0uGeq_1dhTxOLuS9Wt_bQOiGjDhbuAoBPixm-eYfL1M-SD731eZyB2ppq0KKx-fm7VPnsJIaZucpDo2Yoco-EJP2Ew4o37uozwpDt5uA43vhA4mRXR4hNORDmYEYZ9-CE74S20/w640-h542/1706266309398.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These Yayalar were some of the most common Ottoman infantry together with the Azab. The figures with the spear to the front got a plastic shield. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfqb2WOWYjMktqtusr1mXCfHQJNhZZi8UpJ54Wd9R9orDYUE1I93kJmkDUvMrR3luQbgpBQTyzwIhSuPN-EEJ4gNJquU-CUBaGguUXdodF4wPnaPVS7ScwdfnVtvEJ7NAH4MXtl0ykCjJddVA7jLKP7QpDtXfHQ1rpv9ALUbqBbpVXMm8uF4JNK8_MEPI/s1571/1706266309389.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="1542" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfqb2WOWYjMktqtusr1mXCfHQJNhZZi8UpJ54Wd9R9orDYUE1I93kJmkDUvMrR3luQbgpBQTyzwIhSuPN-EEJ4gNJquU-CUBaGguUXdodF4wPnaPVS7ScwdfnVtvEJ7NAH4MXtl0ykCjJddVA7jLKP7QpDtXfHQ1rpv9ALUbqBbpVXMm8uF4JNK8_MEPI/w628-h640/1706266309389.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Only one position for archers but even so a very nice figure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4VCMJOZUs_G97xgDJFLk_x89xOc14x5QLs6IvNwR4A14XaBkP7VObFaD_2_aXvONT_AgxAa-E-JCbdDb9bLonnCxgnbACBhYhOLOBmc3a0F4wnEAIO4x5AUDnC7auCK_5gAAiI9f8YpDUa-0E6sZJ05yk7r-5Kcjgv3hu2MDyPBKA9Xsss-NGbZadV8/s1785/1706266309381.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="1785" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4VCMJOZUs_G97xgDJFLk_x89xOc14x5QLs6IvNwR4A14XaBkP7VObFaD_2_aXvONT_AgxAa-E-JCbdDb9bLonnCxgnbACBhYhOLOBmc3a0F4wnEAIO4x5AUDnC7auCK_5gAAiI9f8YpDUa-0E6sZJ05yk7r-5Kcjgv3hu2MDyPBKA9Xsss-NGbZadV8/w640-h570/1706266309381.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These two command stands have a commander thats transpires Turkish from all pores and also an European looking figure that may be inspired in the Balkanic allies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: WWI Turkish</div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-67131946531866575362024-01-24T06:37:00.000-08:002024-01-24T06:46:18.668-08:00Impetus Rules - Mohacs 1526, part 9 - Ottoman Light Cavalry in 20mm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EMNEL6AsQXoCOXVJLxqUrgucWmKekvlHAunQHxVAGX0olCKWOJe4RNRr1rtt-cMbYsXDHQT8ZrrcQ9z1339qr6z9Lva7yZqG05hQgUiJOgRNEsp4gpTkcIQBIFLEXx30XuCnC5e9ut993sWZYsW-NbJBUr4T1j1zPdeX8ymo0ELUDCnXFU0IF8EbHEQ/s3333/1706096174953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="3333" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EMNEL6AsQXoCOXVJLxqUrgucWmKekvlHAunQHxVAGX0olCKWOJe4RNRr1rtt-cMbYsXDHQT8ZrrcQ9z1339qr6z9Lva7yZqG05hQgUiJOgRNEsp4gpTkcIQBIFLEXx30XuCnC5e9ut993sWZYsW-NbJBUr4T1j1zPdeX8ymo0ELUDCnXFU0IF8EbHEQ/w640-h278/1706096174953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Turcoman archers shoot at the Hungarian lines with their own 'Caracole' tactic while protecting the arrival of the Akinjis. In fact the only thing noticeable about this post is the position of the Turcoman archers inside the stands. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzwUccvpRPs74nb_wWkvx1O66s5M1c53gv3LRFZvJIGHe4rXHeYUvI-OsXChn1J5kbbxIGox5wFEob0aw62HfY0L86FFvxzPzLX69MclQHKkFa8uSHYCuChCKETZDxFGgTvOQHSqjLv38Wxz3U34fovCULTGTan_K0_CfR-TmYT4hvaKwmd8ZiskwYxc/s3609/1706096174936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="3609" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzwUccvpRPs74nb_wWkvx1O66s5M1c53gv3LRFZvJIGHe4rXHeYUvI-OsXChn1J5kbbxIGox5wFEob0aw62HfY0L86FFvxzPzLX69MclQHKkFa8uSHYCuChCKETZDxFGgTvOQHSqjLv38Wxz3U34fovCULTGTan_K0_CfR-TmYT4hvaKwmd8ZiskwYxc/w640-h206/1706096174936.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">By placing them by side on the stands they can simulate the 'Caracole' with a central stand shooting its arrows and the two others mostly recharging and getting ready to shoot again. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjVzfyhFQR4IqJwKeN0ikXqNR1cjETjOo-jn5SfHo9nsYvKDkRRYhVl_RA8TewMpYsvQNewZGAzFUiBLpawot9wW2o65bfrc2UuWMvcmFsA2667Izrwm_qnPb36H9ctTdKUWhdNQctZ7mesg8jfs56IhpHIv8Dt8LkM90qDFxvakdoXwdYiib2b6Wg-A/s3328/1706096174943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2017" data-original-width="3328" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjVzfyhFQR4IqJwKeN0ikXqNR1cjETjOo-jn5SfHo9nsYvKDkRRYhVl_RA8TewMpYsvQNewZGAzFUiBLpawot9wW2o65bfrc2UuWMvcmFsA2667Izrwm_qnPb36H9ctTdKUWhdNQctZ7mesg8jfs56IhpHIv8Dt8LkM90qDFxvakdoXwdYiib2b6Wg-A/w640-h388/1706096174943.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The figures are all StreletsR and all of them are different which makes the group pretty lively. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3ACHuv9t8vYELyXl-k2gz7eeUzL7NMTjkRLv29aKjlLYWBDKSZp52sB_Oto6NtvuVVXZkEsp_ceNF-2AmIKOXcFtsFHaIYaQB8PIVhynPMD5J4JtkHxzyQaJP2fWc3h3fdd9uxXvY1xaBDnbL7r4mG2Txc0EGOHf6nxEz3bUnyfKXvtACAGI7_QC9ZU/s3331/1706096174928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="3331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3ACHuv9t8vYELyXl-k2gz7eeUzL7NMTjkRLv29aKjlLYWBDKSZp52sB_Oto6NtvuVVXZkEsp_ceNF-2AmIKOXcFtsFHaIYaQB8PIVhynPMD5J4JtkHxzyQaJP2fWc3h3fdd9uxXvY1xaBDnbL7r4mG2Txc0EGOHf6nxEz3bUnyfKXvtACAGI7_QC9ZU/w640-h320/1706096174928.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Akinjis in fact are figures from the Muslim Cavalry box by StreletsR but, with a different painting, stressing red and green, they make reasonable Turkish Akinjis. Most of the horses came from Italeri as the original migrated to the Norman army at Hastings. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: More Turkish for Mohacs 1526 or Gallipoli 1915.</div><br /><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-4825572072152637192024-01-21T10:16:00.000-08:002024-01-22T23:01:22.495-08:00RFR/Able Archer - The Portuguese Brigada Mecanizada 2008-24 in 20mm size<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HhxgzC-ylJA?si=CAgqku8gTrFUMHKh" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This Brigade is one of the three of the Portuguese army. It's made around a powerful group of Leopard 2A6 and infantry on M-113 under the fire protection of M-109 A5. The models came from a number of different brands like Die-cast Altaya, Riich, 3d BPM and many conversions. The infantry are plastic US, NATO and German figures with cuts in the weapons for them to look like the G3.</span></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-1113490575659945372024-01-14T08:27:00.000-08:002024-01-14T08:27:14.332-08:00The Portuguese campaign of 1895 in Mozambique in 20mm<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/42JFlDZjhRI?si=36ucz4_gvo7vpGHM" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">Years ago, after finishing my Anglo-Zulu War figures, I started another campaign were I could use once again the Zulu army without many changes. It was from the idea of reusing the Zulus that I started the actions around the uprising of the Landins and Vatuas (Shangane, for the British) of Mozambique against the Portuguese rule during the years of 1894-95. These African tribes were affiliated with the Zulus and most of its weapons and garments were similar so my 20mm Zulu army could be used once more this time a few years later and a bit to the northeast of Africa. The major battles like Marracuene, Magul and Coolela were big affairs not smaller than most of the engagements of the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879.</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">The Portuguese army, both the colonial and the metropolitan, had to be made from conversions as nothing exists in 20mm. First I made all infantry necessary using French Legionaires from Esci and heads from Confederates and Australians and many others to portray the Portuguese uniform in Mozambique. In my help came three excellent articles on this campaign by Jorge de Freitas in Miniatures Wargames No 144, 145 and 146. On those days of 1995 wargame magazines were packed with more information and had less pictures so the total 12 pages of the series gave a good insight of the military actions, organization, equipment and uniforms. Then with a few extra books, namely the Portuguese Tribuna book 'Moçambique 1895, a ca<span style="font-family: inherit;">mpa</span>nha de todos os <span class="st"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Heróis' by A.J. Telo, photos from my visits to the Army museum in Lisbon and nowadays precious internet, I got the rest of the information.</span></span></div></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-50964232464068487802024-01-12T12:27:00.000-08:002024-01-12T13:39:51.712-08:00Hastings 1066 - The two last Fyrd stands for the Saxons in 20mm for Impetus rules<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZem2GQ19I2KKFrVfv4LDJ68fMcNze-r08Dre-HB6kKeDkXwcok8-82a0T9bcNl713kGqKf8xcTi6WKFSIFcTuWws1N1mLgU7iKcSZB9cmSpbqHtVtrCnLhhuvl9f3Ayl1jHvfZlmPjfy1Ug8gjn5j9c6DQzn2gVcJX5lupaAsgWwAAuScfoR7mH1PKs/s3771/1705087056413.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1373" data-original-width="3771" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZem2GQ19I2KKFrVfv4LDJ68fMcNze-r08Dre-HB6kKeDkXwcok8-82a0T9bcNl713kGqKf8xcTi6WKFSIFcTuWws1N1mLgU7iKcSZB9cmSpbqHtVtrCnLhhuvl9f3Ayl1jHvfZlmPjfy1Ug8gjn5j9c6DQzn2gVcJX5lupaAsgWwAAuScfoR7mH1PKs/w640-h234/1705087056413.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These two stands of Fyrd were made from the Robin Hood Airfix set and a few leftovers of the last Revell Saxon´s box. Like this my Saxon army got to 17 stands against 15 stands of the Normans and I will probably let it be like this. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlD3RJRzxC4EvLNzN_gV0omTFoX8eVatHYLGhN3H3FHjLK03J6QIPX9e-v5Yp9YCf_Z63VYDttmcw4uifvbapWSezo8tVMB-FgbMycUwkYEy0jLNkhWRzoMI8hXRCxZn5hdBpllS13H5694S_y17IBiSzufpQNlOCcy7mQslHahJaVldiZSsjDSbqLBIM/s3369/1705087056430.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1701" data-original-width="3369" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlD3RJRzxC4EvLNzN_gV0omTFoX8eVatHYLGhN3H3FHjLK03J6QIPX9e-v5Yp9YCf_Z63VYDttmcw4uifvbapWSezo8tVMB-FgbMycUwkYEy0jLNkhWRzoMI8hXRCxZn5hdBpllS13H5694S_y17IBiSzufpQNlOCcy7mQslHahJaVldiZSsjDSbqLBIM/w640-h324/1705087056430.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>All figures got some degree of conversion. The Airfix figures got plastic card round shields and broomstick spears and the Revell figures also got spears replacing axes and swords.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqpTgs4lP9xauHglDygSt9jYxFc96o2X8ux8opg0qlAOP4UMjsa0uGRGRfsekbjxRwr0qbAkeigZ4mvpI84N8Lhta6mqAWUk59edhZ0OdZ85o1GA0RZzzCf3fU7kNwkbU9Ov6Dc0wJPN4wg3_doBKDcg8PuqfBSGlrWNgnNZyW-WzYxAsbVMNIKNjSeY/s3506/1705087056422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1781" data-original-width="3506" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqpTgs4lP9xauHglDygSt9jYxFc96o2X8ux8opg0qlAOP4UMjsa0uGRGRfsekbjxRwr0qbAkeigZ4mvpI84N8Lhta6mqAWUk59edhZ0OdZ85o1GA0RZzzCf3fU7kNwkbU9Ov6Dc0wJPN4wg3_doBKDcg8PuqfBSGlrWNgnNZyW-WzYxAsbVMNIKNjSeY/w640-h326/1705087056422.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>These stands of interlocked shields consume a lot of figures but make some very nice and varied groups. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCbu3CzvhgGHkHeLdwThuSocCqkwcm3uzip_tg6MALj7yvH-hevvVZb4ZHrCUefKM9Manh_ovEBCy337VM3GmUdsqMLYcifuSVHjah7v37MaIDsbt09Zve0AiJVYrCB86-Pb7OTjBU9wWo_aZScAdl9E1xT5XDtXaMmsk64DchaFzsXDMAdJy9wZUoHeE/s2463/1705087056406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2123" data-original-width="2463" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCbu3CzvhgGHkHeLdwThuSocCqkwcm3uzip_tg6MALj7yvH-hevvVZb4ZHrCUefKM9Manh_ovEBCy337VM3GmUdsqMLYcifuSVHjah7v37MaIDsbt09Zve0AiJVYrCB86-Pb7OTjBU9wWo_aZScAdl9E1xT5XDtXaMmsk64DchaFzsXDMAdJy9wZUoHeE/w640-h552/1705087056406.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Only two colors were used for the tunics which speeded painting. The shields were also kept with only a few colors and mostly some sort of cross. I felt tempted to glue paper shields but ended up by painting them as the Saxons symbols look simpler than the Normans. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge30eIBhltNEy439B1NBS1-0aHxsC_KygQQctYJaJrahTJuLwAdGjQD6hHJ947D83HTgkv7lLVIP55xVcUoNPnUYn9Lqvrwevlnw85ZhqwdBzcUMhEYAU0dFios6WizS0AUchtkoFSbcFQz90VTD28AyZ6RIhQxGdkJ6o8mSZAIhYQYcgHVldj_dgd9tc/s2077/1705087056387.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="2077" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge30eIBhltNEy439B1NBS1-0aHxsC_KygQQctYJaJrahTJuLwAdGjQD6hHJ947D83HTgkv7lLVIP55xVcUoNPnUYn9Lqvrwevlnw85ZhqwdBzcUMhEYAU0dFios6WizS0AUchtkoFSbcFQz90VTD28AyZ6RIhQxGdkJ6o8mSZAIhYQYcgHVldj_dgd9tc/w640-h484/1705087056387.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On the other stand there is a lonely Saxon lord in its chain mail armor leading its peasantry into battle (but at least fighting within its ranks). You can find one of the several Friar Tuck figures with shield and spear on the back row, left figure. There are two archer poses in the Robin Hood box and some four of these are spread on the second rank just for some variety. The original bows were a bit too big for 1066 and they were slightly shortened as the famous English/Welsh longbow is still far in time. From the box, only the Robin Hood figures, Lady Marian, and the figure with the pole high in both hands (another Friar Tuck figure?) were not used. All others are great peasant figures for many Middle Age armies up to the XIV century. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: a video on the Portuguese campaign in Mozambique,1895.</div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-4468475068439708222024-01-07T15:04:00.000-08:002024-01-09T04:59:52.761-08:00Hastings 1066- The Norman army in 20mm for Impetus rules<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGq_thO38IJor91eLaJ-LIPXYP2TXLHNSRt27wZgJ6ly9vWFMPLWh_mbfPJxLSKav7BSllfBa7BWk_EFxxKGOsKyNOWfd3xw1ly9jDsQadfFNH7_2S-5yXqEZlKCPQyKwa2dvhoKqFsPV1mpISM9W7ixLtaHrCFMdAHCV0UYVVHQUeLBcewV-KbJsWJzE/s2915/1704659097026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="2915" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGq_thO38IJor91eLaJ-LIPXYP2TXLHNSRt27wZgJ6ly9vWFMPLWh_mbfPJxLSKav7BSllfBa7BWk_EFxxKGOsKyNOWfd3xw1ly9jDsQadfFNH7_2S-5yXqEZlKCPQyKwa2dvhoKqFsPV1mpISM9W7ixLtaHrCFMdAHCV0UYVVHQUeLBcewV-KbJsWJzE/w640-h404/1704659097026.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This Norman army was an old wish of mine since Revell released its box in 1989. While the figures looked great there was the obvious problem of only two horsemen per box and only with rearing horses. Also a number of other armies from the early Middle Ages could be modelled, like Portuguese and Castillan for the Reconquista or Crusaders for the first few rounds of invasion of the Holy land, but the horsemen problem continued and the project kept on being delayed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ21DdndkQvfMLHwThvZqthh2V7IqL1G16iR7fTLVfHBFHj6u2VUKKd_E_qx7mgTmZvOforyggBxSf5q45jFE5pbf-fSigEV7LBXArhOd3ZC3D28CryUwJO5b1anFrRZo7r4DkZd3mUhVxCY3nl47FBiYytpw0qZe4PU24vgPGfRhe5cexZH7XAggHaqU/s3924/1704659097015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1498" data-original-width="3924" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ21DdndkQvfMLHwThvZqthh2V7IqL1G16iR7fTLVfHBFHj6u2VUKKd_E_qx7mgTmZvOforyggBxSf5q45jFE5pbf-fSigEV7LBXArhOd3ZC3D28CryUwJO5b1anFrRZo7r4DkZd3mUhVxCY3nl47FBiYytpw0qZe4PU24vgPGfRhe5cexZH7XAggHaqU/w640-h244/1704659097015.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is how the Norman army would have looked like at Hastings. The centre would be occupied by the Normans themselves with Roger of Montgomery´s French and Flemish on the right and Alan of Brittany´s Bretons on the left. The first line would have been made of archers; the second, of heavy infantry and the third, of heavy or medium cavalry. A total of 15 Impetus stands were made, a match for the Saxon army. They are ready to climb Senlac hill or Caldbec hill if you prefer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjndMGv4M34SdYc6OQkMO1cWGgB36ar3Rzk_b3Sh61-GKMS9JkGPiFXBGsMX4AqKIxrSxwNLDFhw2oVqSjAzSgUfPiyOJ85D7G0URPvMNluVNe9QUx4OP3dJlFZw7DLn0YYNcdYcxzzERyCDO2TxYgs8DeR8NpZutfNmDH5oXJUdjDcrem1HhLMPv5dY/s3786/1704659096998.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2428" data-original-width="3786" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjndMGv4M34SdYc6OQkMO1cWGgB36ar3Rzk_b3Sh61-GKMS9JkGPiFXBGsMX4AqKIxrSxwNLDFhw2oVqSjAzSgUfPiyOJ85D7G0URPvMNluVNe9QUx4OP3dJlFZw7DLn0YYNcdYcxzzERyCDO2TxYgs8DeR8NpZutfNmDH5oXJUdjDcrem1HhLMPv5dY/w640-h410/1704659096998.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now for the Norman host proper, the most numerous of the three groups with maybe around 5000 men. All figures are Revell (with the exception of Bishop Odo of Bayeux with a club, an Italeri figure, leading the army next to William). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwKMo6OiuIhVHazKDzNU8MmdWXCXU82zYkORIgVFYxlN2mnypIRx_ZB9uR80CFya04u4QWu5BMv_aUqa_rziZcgYTHTk4TTgylvZ4skIp2r3CPdWysU5pMjXW_9dd9b3aarLtuLSYs5mgXsRzuyTVEzHMTUK79DeSqtSOFTIdiQcsHmMvhq7CT4eXZe4/s4000/1704659096985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="4000" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwKMo6OiuIhVHazKDzNU8MmdWXCXU82zYkORIgVFYxlN2mnypIRx_ZB9uR80CFya04u4QWu5BMv_aUqa_rziZcgYTHTk4TTgylvZ4skIp2r3CPdWysU5pMjXW_9dd9b3aarLtuLSYs5mgXsRzuyTVEzHMTUK79DeSqtSOFTIdiQcsHmMvhq7CT4eXZe4/w640-h478/1704659096985.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is the trick I used to produce some 20+ cavalry figures. I used some of the poses of the foot Revell Normans with swords, carved a bit of plastic from the middle of the legs (ouch...) and sat them with the help of an hot glue gun in Airfix or Italeri Medieval horses from several boxes. Also a few of the rearing Revell horses got some heat for them to bend to some more common poses. The Pope's flag was placed in the front rank of this stand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61j6PSFwPoOhQHeTeA6QPyKaVDE1EceiC0SsEUYQaflb64-lB7l6Tk-gJW6_UWuSqITJxsK2CMg0olapvX37o_qKdCdrQL2Gnx4hZJ_653Hkjju32qO3SUdDg_UWxj9SdROgeIjudgnhyOe7Gb6hiZ0NROoVqlXj365cpVbHCd82YV3hhI1_Dz4gTlAQ/s3639/1704659096955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="3639" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61j6PSFwPoOhQHeTeA6QPyKaVDE1EceiC0SsEUYQaflb64-lB7l6Tk-gJW6_UWuSqITJxsK2CMg0olapvX37o_qKdCdrQL2Gnx4hZJ_653Hkjju32qO3SUdDg_UWxj9SdROgeIjudgnhyOe7Gb6hiZ0NROoVqlXj365cpVbHCd82YV3hhI1_Dz4gTlAQ/w640-h412/1704659096955.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The infantry was less problematic as Revell gives a nice assortment of poses. The only aspect worth mentioning was the usage of glued photocopies of 25mm Norman shields from the web, scaled down and retouched as the brands place those lines to avoid, well, exactly what I did... In fact all Normans and French have this trick both in cavalry and infantry. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDbul9lq45SAFAlXvyhzLh3d6wHS-ZhoUmdA0qRcuIXoaPNdxLqpkKRrh_spufGapQ2w-uqP92cuZ3avo73Wk2nibUGQNX71FcUc2utyfT__-7FLyyKGzLRFM1VQhyWRf0r3JBz8TJEPzESvEQKl_WCETtimZ05g8i55RpfmsWaTyhSJUAz_zjzFSLEs/s3359/1704659096941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="3359" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDbul9lq45SAFAlXvyhzLh3d6wHS-ZhoUmdA0qRcuIXoaPNdxLqpkKRrh_spufGapQ2w-uqP92cuZ3avo73Wk2nibUGQNX71FcUc2utyfT__-7FLyyKGzLRFM1VQhyWRf0r3JBz8TJEPzESvEQKl_WCETtimZ05g8i55RpfmsWaTyhSJUAz_zjzFSLEs/w640-h570/1704659096941.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The archers are the same for the three hosts. In the end I regretted not placing the mailed archers only in the Norman stands but frankly I don´t know if this was the case. </div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_TqSxoIMz0KUjvxHw76O2JSqlQMh3kkSw1luC6Vg54nxoGViMuxGBzSGH4f5xsGpbW6I9_C9rzrau5Jlv8Abw_KQveAyIX-KVaOvB-dkYZvp8x9A2uR8KTm_6wXOKdjbCSUyS3Pi2snSbVLBsAEAALcsLNS_9_3WsXQPHUV0X-zqzo1Ox_ZeVhGmB-8/s2674/1704659262659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2540" data-original-width="2674" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_TqSxoIMz0KUjvxHw76O2JSqlQMh3kkSw1luC6Vg54nxoGViMuxGBzSGH4f5xsGpbW6I9_C9rzrau5Jlv8Abw_KQveAyIX-KVaOvB-dkYZvp8x9A2uR8KTm_6wXOKdjbCSUyS3Pi2snSbVLBsAEAALcsLNS_9_3WsXQPHUV0X-zqzo1Ox_ZeVhGmB-8/w640-h608/1704659262659.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now for the Bretons which may have been some 2000+ at Hastings. Their main visual difference to the Normans characteristic was the lack of mailed armor or maybe its use under the clothes both in cavalry and infantry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUZKw0M0GxeFcEBp-pwea1R6U5HwL6XdUdu1NyK4mKpEAFYLESTnCBTjJ5L-lSacPFED4StScTlKu_a0bNdOTZe6inclShrUA1Z5AIhglmTNqo78wBGQcRhelHOk9ODWdVSSaPOBezq7ugT8a0X_1SQfFQSIKMZNLSDG1iJM1_g3pomTkR2Z8LPR6ApM/s3893/1704659376390.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="3893" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUZKw0M0GxeFcEBp-pwea1R6U5HwL6XdUdu1NyK4mKpEAFYLESTnCBTjJ5L-lSacPFED4StScTlKu_a0bNdOTZe6inclShrUA1Z5AIhglmTNqo78wBGQcRhelHOk9ODWdVSSaPOBezq7ugT8a0X_1SQfFQSIKMZNLSDG1iJM1_g3pomTkR2Z8LPR6ApM/w640-h228/1704659376390.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For the Breton (and French/mercenary) cavalry I did not use Normans. Instead I looked in the several sets of early Medieval cavalry from Italeri (Russian, Teutonic and Crusaders) and used the ones with conical helmets or Kettle hats. Their cavalry was mostly discarded as they have the Caparison cover and were replaced by StreletsR horses. These two stands have one less figure than the Norman stands so they can be used as CM or CP as the difference between 7 or 8 horsemen is barely noticeable. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNW4DvpdQzh7f-WTj3bX3u8-sv5jlvdgDYUkBepGbp48ci4hhTG8yXMarn3xSuteAMO0dv2wGudcQem1D-q6c-YuiC-Sm8lqQ4UUUainjBeLd4dFUpgndk1CUJrRQQSITCFxec7kkY_Ek9iCua-Tv7XMCbv2FmgjXcWeFs-qKKy8VTrSsxisKDYhnmzlA/s3378/1704659262651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2420" data-original-width="3378" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNW4DvpdQzh7f-WTj3bX3u8-sv5jlvdgDYUkBepGbp48ci4hhTG8yXMarn3xSuteAMO0dv2wGudcQem1D-q6c-YuiC-Sm8lqQ4UUUainjBeLd4dFUpgndk1CUJrRQQSITCFxec7kkY_Ek9iCua-Tv7XMCbv2FmgjXcWeFs-qKKy8VTrSsxisKDYhnmzlA/w640-h458/1704659262651.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The shields were enlarged with the glued photocopies. This time, just to make them different from the French, I painted the shield in one color only a practice I saw in a number of Breton from different sources. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8yufjT84iIR8dhhcxSnGgQ62CNAL0ZB3D21b-LkP5Jvr8iyrPKL9I2QlF2UwCygm1tsjYPdnnkyrD7NMzqCiT5OJmsQ-r_iBqmVpNUU-zzAT_mGtvxp6NQ2kmiWPVloJYO9g1r-Teo-iDfh-MDKtJ597qmhzPH9vyvpTyYs31QoDlReNwcHm7rD1Gz4/s3672/1704659376357.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2238" data-original-width="3672" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8yufjT84iIR8dhhcxSnGgQ62CNAL0ZB3D21b-LkP5Jvr8iyrPKL9I2QlF2UwCygm1tsjYPdnnkyrD7NMzqCiT5OJmsQ-r_iBqmVpNUU-zzAT_mGtvxp6NQ2kmiWPVloJYO9g1r-Teo-iDfh-MDKtJ597qmhzPH9vyvpTyYs31QoDlReNwcHm7rD1Gz4/w640-h390/1704659376357.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As you can see here the smaller original shields were dwarfed by the paper ones. In the end if you place a good layer of PVA at the joint between the plastic and the paper shields you will barely see the difference and they become very tough. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7fgDsprf_87GVIZrsCDu5qh3tFAVaShNpsetSgLFiRbJSZOZsw6qoJI4hobes9JC608-bCvX8UNcly9pC5ni9fsHzCcoMswIAGVxVdb64P4MRoVo4jCus4BCPjdeeJrtgdpQsC7_Vc38Idcsbk1KlBZiYQaraQ8qV6aeN_2q_nBSF2WdU4hPUmLDrLo/s2352/1704659262629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2352" data-original-width="1681" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7fgDsprf_87GVIZrsCDu5qh3tFAVaShNpsetSgLFiRbJSZOZsw6qoJI4hobes9JC608-bCvX8UNcly9pC5ni9fsHzCcoMswIAGVxVdb64P4MRoVo4jCus4BCPjdeeJrtgdpQsC7_Vc38Idcsbk1KlBZiYQaraQ8qV6aeN_2q_nBSF2WdU4hPUmLDrLo/w458-h640/1704659262629.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Italeri figures, used for Breton infantry, had even smaller shields which were enlarged with the same trick. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4S6rZFCAWDUATa7qed91eBT6OZZNFNNFl802MrzBVIZdHYpdI8LTFriFKCe-1TDSkxOtWf5m7kxH-eoyAx-qfcID6PxS7lQg86zO0cKvCRe9wlQP1kGWxWDeVYqw8WOndNvMFb3BtSQwsfxHtaLPoN3hnr1hhTl6VAY0IDOyvmlgJoCOeVxSTXrEeds/s3043/1704659262641.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2313" data-original-width="3043" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4S6rZFCAWDUATa7qed91eBT6OZZNFNNFl802MrzBVIZdHYpdI8LTFriFKCe-1TDSkxOtWf5m7kxH-eoyAx-qfcID6PxS7lQg86zO0cKvCRe9wlQP1kGWxWDeVYqw8WOndNvMFb3BtSQwsfxHtaLPoN3hnr1hhTl6VAY0IDOyvmlgJoCOeVxSTXrEeds/w640-h486/1704659262641.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The full stand of Breton Infantry made of Italeri figures mostly with kite shields. When the kite shields were small they became bigger with the photocopies trick. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXhHPtfsZmXWaEti9D-L3w53GINgmwnFzRRYCbPXHPS-N0ip77SBmwjTbu-U5fJckI8ydCH2cP2DRKHp31-bNGJ9MEkuduzMhG656QlqLwvhrOimbgwJlCluXid7OS2FVWN_W5SzXlOiQu9knYGmCI4tHC3dP3aJr5VSmFogyXZXrZoexeSUcU3vA9k8/s2310/1704659376380.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2234" data-original-width="2310" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXhHPtfsZmXWaEti9D-L3w53GINgmwnFzRRYCbPXHPS-N0ip77SBmwjTbu-U5fJckI8ydCH2cP2DRKHp31-bNGJ9MEkuduzMhG656QlqLwvhrOimbgwJlCluXid7OS2FVWN_W5SzXlOiQu9knYGmCI4tHC3dP3aJr5VSmFogyXZXrZoexeSUcU3vA9k8/w640-h618/1704659376380.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Lastly, the French and other european mercenaries, maybe some 1500 or 2000 men. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLw3eoea_v-iosvVefSU5Jar33uc8EghWJZCe_mmgRI38MTFPoIRfY-YfyV-fqosMaQW8UDenZAWwLWjY7yK6E8byovRhm6ZDMk4JWRYRozVy-XhS29nU9lBmyMF-Jnw8WxddgbimoCclG2CoUpe-wHHUig3glM7ZrbobBljsrQUF7H83gkf6N24cpDjs/s2790/1704659376368.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2230" data-original-width="2790" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLw3eoea_v-iosvVefSU5Jar33uc8EghWJZCe_mmgRI38MTFPoIRfY-YfyV-fqosMaQW8UDenZAWwLWjY7yK6E8byovRhm6ZDMk4JWRYRozVy-XhS29nU9lBmyMF-Jnw8WxddgbimoCclG2CoUpe-wHHUig3glM7ZrbobBljsrQUF7H83gkf6N24cpDjs/w640-h512/1704659376368.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The cavalry was made pretty much like the Bretons, only with printed and retouched colorful shields. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6iV3NW2bo3HRAHXrwYOMtarhL61n6WQdt35u3A6HXCvyBcGT7fTDGQ-OWF6mx8ejC5j2hRI4ts45NY_e8Pjk1Bs3eb8F4Ha0dVu8kssewnum0PJcyPrWJ8S1DXwkGev7D93p03KHcdK_XYJ7MhgJLcKscWiBx8hMyoLFDqVU-qGuSRs2WN7OT-jJuNI/s2466/1704659376344.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1814" data-original-width="2466" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6iV3NW2bo3HRAHXrwYOMtarhL61n6WQdt35u3A6HXCvyBcGT7fTDGQ-OWF6mx8ejC5j2hRI4ts45NY_e8Pjk1Bs3eb8F4Ha0dVu8kssewnum0PJcyPrWJ8S1DXwkGev7D93p03KHcdK_XYJ7MhgJLcKscWiBx8hMyoLFDqVU-qGuSRs2WN7OT-jJuNI/w640-h470/1704659376344.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The French Infantry was made like the Bretons as I couldn´t find any relevant differences. Eventually they also used plenty of mailed armor like the Normans. The main source for this period, the obvious Bayeux tapestry, was made years after the battle and many details and differences between the fighters are not clear. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLK5TIr2o0bvozIV1M5QXdhj2hzGWGIW5CiDLcEp_5bc5_u4L3NX8l_aUw86EnrBUn4g8Au7JDRre5jZxw1WbIyI7rPuKQcXN6pfG9jsRZBpWFRX4b2tsFZXXGZ3F5cGYCHyBiA5ZD5uMWfVgq4jrRM3F-hGj78UaKWNKrlFWM0VylaSP72bK2nK9fsI/s3642/1704659376331.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2187" data-original-width="3642" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLK5TIr2o0bvozIV1M5QXdhj2hzGWGIW5CiDLcEp_5bc5_u4L3NX8l_aUw86EnrBUn4g8Au7JDRre5jZxw1WbIyI7rPuKQcXN6pfG9jsRZBpWFRX4b2tsFZXXGZ3F5cGYCHyBiA5ZD5uMWfVgq4jrRM3F-hGj78UaKWNKrlFWM0VylaSP72bK2nK9fsI/w640-h384/1704659376331.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One more stand of French archers, mixing mailed and non-mailed figures. I thought about placing some crossbows but there are already two in the Breton infantry stand so this one became archers-only. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Wva_UvVsiKLggb2fOpqR5LfKVOGxAgbhnBY1yaTzDQRyVFz51u3oMR6XOJZeD0zRhIdKVi5bn4-YbAhpXlm33qDSFL9fAEqSRQtpICt1C5jrCNvpeDr_ZQzl8UEOoYInAkwhxCOfP7FJlLCE21WLY9EPoaIZQSgNJxapNiOZxz115nF7WJRUn-e6ZrE/s2880/1704659376318.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2337" data-original-width="2880" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Wva_UvVsiKLggb2fOpqR5LfKVOGxAgbhnBY1yaTzDQRyVFz51u3oMR6XOJZeD0zRhIdKVi5bn4-YbAhpXlm33qDSFL9fAEqSRQtpICt1C5jrCNvpeDr_ZQzl8UEOoYInAkwhxCOfP7FJlLCE21WLY9EPoaIZQSgNJxapNiOZxz115nF7WJRUn-e6ZrE/w640-h520/1704659376318.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Odo of Bayeux and William still need the company of the Breton and French leaders which will join the ranks when I find a bit more of information on Alan and Roger. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next: a video on Hastings or on the Iraqis of 1991. </div><br />João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-53557670497125971852023-12-31T10:26:00.000-08:002023-12-31T10:26:54.443-08:00RFR/ Able Archer- The Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade of the 2022/23 Russia...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/59R7nYgyCVo?si=sktQMfPz-1wmYNHb" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In this one you can see a good part of the heavy ground weapons of the Ukrainian Mech Bgde in three periods: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- the initial ex-Soviet and indigenous Ukrainian equipment;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- the big lot of equipment from eastern NATO countries used in the Kharkiv/Kherson offensives </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- the latest batch of western NATO type of equipment used in the 2023 summer offensive.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I forgot to mention the three BMP-1U Shkval converted from Fabbri die-casts. Go to the blog to see more information on how these were made and also more some technical information. </span></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-66860504416248065252023-12-25T05:11:00.000-08:002023-12-25T05:11:26.161-08:00Able Archer/ RFR rules (?) - Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022 in 20mm (part 14) - The Russian BREM-K recovery vehicles<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipwuqKJ68azldtzRXTzKxKI4C5kM7kNOcJK6Fz309A7Izol0k_jsex57oiLdXJfVnKKefuAzAqXxAa6_B0NvEV6GwOktFKgsZDE_ea4S4SZTVeEqNhADuaPVTf1JQyigTkGgj_NuZ_w-eISrLpqyUyaTm4wSEaX-b0P2r0MYPYoQRjuOFayynt2t9YqBs/s3469/1703432965466.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="3469" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipwuqKJ68azldtzRXTzKxKI4C5kM7kNOcJK6Fz309A7Izol0k_jsex57oiLdXJfVnKKefuAzAqXxAa6_B0NvEV6GwOktFKgsZDE_ea4S4SZTVeEqNhADuaPVTf1JQyigTkGgj_NuZ_w-eISrLpqyUyaTm4wSEaX-b0P2r0MYPYoQRjuOFayynt2t9YqBs/w640-h316/1703432965466.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The BREM-K is the standard Russian recovery vehicle for towing the wheeled series of the BTR-80 and similar or lighter vehicles. It's a relatively numerous vehicle in the nowadays war in Ukraine and you can find plenty of images in the web and full articles about it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoIFLOb9ERPfiF5LQb-hif4ktWfzK8Bo-oHYCC4tNFt2AuMqrFXTx15bBFc4bc7HquOcWyjb7cJSZcVw8ob_3-IJ_4yWo8NQrBbcsz-L-ihD9HgxiEI7ArIfx_JlM1lWRqqLBRE3WxSEayFiwozxglll2Fd_AyKITNtwL2C5LkJUjxMcZme3as_0qqvOs/s800/BREM-K_-_TankBiathlon14part2-06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="800" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoIFLOb9ERPfiF5LQb-hif4ktWfzK8Bo-oHYCC4tNFt2AuMqrFXTx15bBFc4bc7HquOcWyjb7cJSZcVw8ob_3-IJ_4yWo8NQrBbcsz-L-ihD9HgxiEI7ArIfx_JlM1lWRqqLBRE3WxSEayFiwozxglll2Fd_AyKITNtwL2C5LkJUjxMcZme3as_0qqvOs/w640-h414/BREM-K_-_TankBiathlon14part2-06.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I had a number of BTR-80 leftovers after building a number of regular BTR-80 and converting others to the BTR-82A variant. This BREM-K didn't look too difficult to convert besides being a normal company of the basic version. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRCIuMGkPdZPLbKEoRqRkqbNmtLgMDsxhcJ6J5qK7tSo1T2GrOwE7L3ERPNBf5dxXSaIu_s0B2xu__cNjswEW5yu6MlsRCaLcLJSDU6_nAF3Gy6Mvk5YA0mVYB-oOtgwA4KRb3SAw88Qc6N5EmAL7g6LNg5nhIlY3WmTMk0PfPlcF2e8oWvJ7FYueoVE/s2632/1703432965447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2627" data-original-width="2632" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRCIuMGkPdZPLbKEoRqRkqbNmtLgMDsxhcJ6J5qK7tSo1T2GrOwE7L3ERPNBf5dxXSaIu_s0B2xu__cNjswEW5yu6MlsRCaLcLJSDU6_nAF3Gy6Mvk5YA0mVYB-oOtgwA4KRb3SAw88Qc6N5EmAL7g6LNg5nhIlY3WmTMk0PfPlcF2e8oWvJ7FYueoVE/w640-h638/1703432965447.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Due to a number of added details and absence of its heavier guns this version of the BTR-80 becomes quite different from the basic one. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfQsYYKoQKlyD5kD3iOmBQDpOHHoOoU8pMvrJf5MBQZEAu4WPc3ohHg763HORBwETgTHGSNruv9llebzrvCDCve2SbOI11z9a1W_iyr3E1rpWctbl-j48O6c3rtb3iLqgDkcOTDgjDRhRLFyl-I49JqFDUAbQ3la1RoXOhC-da0NnqzSSb5LzOC5OJkY/s3212/1703432965456.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2056" data-original-width="3212" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfQsYYKoQKlyD5kD3iOmBQDpOHHoOoU8pMvrJf5MBQZEAu4WPc3ohHg763HORBwETgTHGSNruv9llebzrvCDCve2SbOI11z9a1W_iyr3E1rpWctbl-j48O6c3rtb3iLqgDkcOTDgjDRhRLFyl-I49JqFDUAbQ3la1RoXOhC-da0NnqzSSb5LzOC5OJkY/w640-h410/1703432965456.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The figure is another Orion soft plastic figure. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFfyiu36Fp38ANMtzGXEH9BEob3ip5RDku1PaXzOMeAL7Zt3nZbemyD7uJjYCT7ISMiPpYvwn2Y6KI9u9ktqLr6Yl_2Q1PlY6b9dy9qsn3UHRzTClTmPJusiGUQsV7ED3MDpCk9hyk4cZRLyaI2CJ2GNo-75jV1hpszLiK9n4vREch27zlPofqt_T4OQ/s3228/1703432965490.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1842" data-original-width="3228" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFfyiu36Fp38ANMtzGXEH9BEob3ip5RDku1PaXzOMeAL7Zt3nZbemyD7uJjYCT7ISMiPpYvwn2Y6KI9u9ktqLr6Yl_2Q1PlY6b9dy9qsn3UHRzTClTmPJusiGUQsV7ED3MDpCk9hyk4cZRLyaI2CJ2GNo-75jV1hpszLiK9n4vREch27zlPofqt_T4OQ/w640-h366/1703432965490.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The basic materials for these conversions were:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">- 3d printed replacement wheels</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">- plastic card tubing and plate</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">- metal parts from HO trains</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">- WW2 Tiger front wheels from Hasegawa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8avTfoeWOjfalmm0IaRcpjH1vFYA9FcCqlMso3S0_G7AhKiAWGnRkAChyfZXc8ML8MZE3Cp9RXYnFlvBgKmo0GLBP_ePaTJDhXWfAlhdTNvwY4zIdvxvFekrCehaD0r6hEjK5E99tj00fI9jQA7yGf9slhSsjAktbXx2Zsz_rVmU4dkYSa9kazbHYkE/s3469/1703432965499.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2152" data-original-width="3469" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8avTfoeWOjfalmm0IaRcpjH1vFYA9FcCqlMso3S0_G7AhKiAWGnRkAChyfZXc8ML8MZE3Cp9RXYnFlvBgKmo0GLBP_ePaTJDhXWfAlhdTNvwY4zIdvxvFekrCehaD0r6hEjK5E99tj00fI9jQA7yGf9slhSsjAktbXx2Zsz_rVmU4dkYSa9kazbHYkE/w640-h398/1703432965499.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Many parts are over simplified but after painting the result is OK. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6J6wV1jGC_Y9qRx42i4LusXf7KM6zALsky400zaRiuxWJeRZsLHDVqlPVH_sYtlzYKrVz0Up0xeryduRF3wLxeo1gLZReu_4DetHdM6Qj0kFCK8udPURcuPFeVCOm6gqhBjn7Mv89uJaIpfuSrFBcVwb7xVTdvqC9d0YVo038NqKdkfsVr3-GZy237A/s2414/1703432965508.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2226" data-original-width="2414" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6J6wV1jGC_Y9qRx42i4LusXf7KM6zALsky400zaRiuxWJeRZsLHDVqlPVH_sYtlzYKrVz0Up0xeryduRF3wLxeo1gLZReu_4DetHdM6Qj0kFCK8udPURcuPFeVCOm6gqhBjn7Mv89uJaIpfuSrFBcVwb7xVTdvqC9d0YVo038NqKdkfsVr3-GZy237A/w640-h590/1703432965508.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The winch became a bit too thick but at least is unbreakable :). <p></p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfY9K3P7ScWsgOxfyAHQhQ2vpF1MtNNUnIqvUnAwwO_ghZs6mof4yIlbP6vCG7VlmNAp3ge2lrQqFkkycv9tU7PxH4b5Pukwhk24Am38IsBdN8xcUK1Ky8nL5m2f69mkSGupI_uiKPZWa06bP3ZGyhF27dWKBTzz_I-aH3QfDFSSMNROKGQ184cHW_f8/s1796/1703432965519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="1796" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfY9K3P7ScWsgOxfyAHQhQ2vpF1MtNNUnIqvUnAwwO_ghZs6mof4yIlbP6vCG7VlmNAp3ge2lrQqFkkycv9tU7PxH4b5Pukwhk24Am38IsBdN8xcUK1Ky8nL5m2f69mkSGupI_uiKPZWa06bP3ZGyhF27dWKBTzz_I-aH3QfDFSSMNROKGQ184cHW_f8/w640-h588/1703432965519.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The front needs a coulter-stop for fixing the machine on the ground when working. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR3BdvAG0zxhH5y5PQTI0fmkENqf4S-VsWDxHkvfb5AqTA-C3ZuZnQy6H-Fd65t_Q6MfxKuRHpiOw_PcqgoRO20QGdMOmKxRYhe64lHgiGyyj2QHOPlKeKItR81XtQRBNs_Pv1-qP84Ac8N82qYcUgmFrZrZFwlnQMZPDJytJdPvAZ1hzE2kdxFmq1UA/s2761/1703432965528.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2611" data-original-width="2761" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR3BdvAG0zxhH5y5PQTI0fmkENqf4S-VsWDxHkvfb5AqTA-C3ZuZnQy6H-Fd65t_Q6MfxKuRHpiOw_PcqgoRO20QGdMOmKxRYhe64lHgiGyyj2QHOPlKeKItR81XtQRBNs_Pv1-qP84Ac8N82qYcUgmFrZrZFwlnQMZPDJytJdPvAZ1hzE2kdxFmq1UA/w640-h606/1703432965528.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For extra strength some of the supports of the winch in the turret are metal parts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: a video on the nowadays Ukrainian army. </div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-20131665731630216772023-12-24T08:38:00.000-08:002023-12-24T08:38:00.356-08:00Anglo-Zulu War 1879 in 20mm - The British army at Isandlwana (part 2 and final)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAxYPwnoogXeaCiPyrm4SEwdn200QS9fv23gnpBbkuiHg5jicClSOhFocmeaytVT6WDYXlImNEG85laos17yG-dgP8tV2Ge9fJ6P3E7OfpQGrGn1npdHw5JYHjxLB7x7ghzlgxw-MU8pro4meNeUbgmT5GwTirzGp8j3aHDxInhqdOIDDTU23L7IghRQ/s3670/1703264923315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="3670" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAxYPwnoogXeaCiPyrm4SEwdn200QS9fv23gnpBbkuiHg5jicClSOhFocmeaytVT6WDYXlImNEG85laos17yG-dgP8tV2Ge9fJ6P3E7OfpQGrGn1npdHw5JYHjxLB7x7ghzlgxw-MU8pro4meNeUbgmT5GwTirzGp8j3aHDxInhqdOIDDTU23L7IghRQ/w640-h220/1703264923315.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Just a few more stands made recently to finish the British army at Isandlwana. You can see them "in action" on the last video. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SKWD60pNjTFUmaUlum08Ni3w6JUVkRq3qB2TEpOXZEJBDq5fAGJDQhbHAIR2LVQmHjJP8dia8RVwi4nIQLTn_f8T71BrOl6JHk1duUCovN7WaDWi548QTRIaIq7xSw1kNp2uxA-mkXDX1ooUcOul6wb0a9yL8O5M6Sk2DUqVfPLudcSkvzHT2hJa5ro/s2639/1703264923286.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2148" data-original-width="2639" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SKWD60pNjTFUmaUlum08Ni3w6JUVkRq3qB2TEpOXZEJBDq5fAGJDQhbHAIR2LVQmHjJP8dia8RVwi4nIQLTn_f8T71BrOl6JHk1duUCovN7WaDWi548QTRIaIq7xSw1kNp2uxA-mkXDX1ooUcOul6wb0a9yL8O5M6Sk2DUqVfPLudcSkvzHT2hJa5ro/w640-h520/1703264923286.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These two blurred figures represent the 50 or something Natal Mounted Police. I already had the Natal Carbineers made in the same way and these just had some more colour. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfUWgCCocu2oCiRheRHCTjw5nuqVWuz4cGpdRW9FteJbwXozz_wcUChB1NqohEwi5nrUlUVlRoVZP-5ZB9-OJ7sY8Uy-NgMci9WjiZoqqQGGFJt7HWaHipkBbjhlR7Tav25aspZnkpyGe6FFepZSvP_m7qezQbAy9sZPGe_UEDXsgaLyiAJBQIP5wsJw/s2224/1703264923344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="2224" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfUWgCCocu2oCiRheRHCTjw5nuqVWuz4cGpdRW9FteJbwXozz_wcUChB1NqohEwi5nrUlUVlRoVZP-5ZB9-OJ7sY8Uy-NgMci9WjiZoqqQGGFJt7HWaHipkBbjhlR7Tav25aspZnkpyGe6FFepZSvP_m7qezQbAy9sZPGe_UEDXsgaLyiAJBQIP5wsJw/w640-h424/1703264923344.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These two figures were converted from the Esci standard bearer that you can see to the right. The arms were bent with a lighter and two rifles were glued to the arms new positions. Also some spikes were drilled into the helmet as typical with the NMP. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFejqc2Zq7oczeFzIC1q42Cvgxb1EmfLYEFeJtVUubCtFFW7j8UCeoOEwDvTT3gzTj_9uRSGR1wr3iMfreXh2cQXXG24WCAlsgGuTnBbYf4vqyn8joKqW9p80DdEhmBWWie0trs1XGabIzgf6YawCnYwG7BrPWMIim08nVpJc-Mxvat9WYqCvdukas_c/s2539/1703264923294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="2539" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFejqc2Zq7oczeFzIC1q42Cvgxb1EmfLYEFeJtVUubCtFFW7j8UCeoOEwDvTT3gzTj_9uRSGR1wr3iMfreXh2cQXXG24WCAlsgGuTnBbYf4vqyn8joKqW9p80DdEhmBWWie0trs1XGabIzgf6YawCnYwG7BrPWMIim08nVpJc-Mxvat9WYqCvdukas_c/w640-h468/1703264923294.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Rocket battery was still missing as well as its "limber", the Esci Alpine´s donkey with a Revell Confederate figure as its driver. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU066HL-4TxcYQ2skuBKZGK48GCmDJUaj8Mi2wFawWVtFqGQO5ljOcenophWXilseqeW-bNfUF08n50mikWbpoFGN1YQsVpFh21WQCxtjmY3tj1pyyqUyjei7jrPEzP16UURnvEQYUhryOo5eEopx5YaUNeP7IIXhoPeh7PtQ15nNysi9XR2xDP4xd27Q/s2572/1703264923337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="2572" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU066HL-4TxcYQ2skuBKZGK48GCmDJUaj8Mi2wFawWVtFqGQO5ljOcenophWXilseqeW-bNfUF08n50mikWbpoFGN1YQsVpFh21WQCxtjmY3tj1pyyqUyjei7jrPEzP16UURnvEQYUhryOo5eEopx5YaUNeP7IIXhoPeh7PtQ15nNysi9XR2xDP4xd27Q/w640-h396/1703264923337.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Again two of the figures were heavily converted with the exception of Major Russell. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi0lgbuUOz7-G3XQlRZuSd1W8zYdNh5tbkd95lveCtwslBG0uIdeAuOMpq2-UN6-pq9YaaYfgYwm-yTfcFmMo7vfCeglopXyjAE0XOK0QCy_JYR88H7JdAqhKldlDavLxt3JVGOL6XxW8czJ7Em5OZ599KI0tJs4O_5T3OdXAvbNeq8T_cnJZiqX758U/s1379/1703264923330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1379" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi0lgbuUOz7-G3XQlRZuSd1W8zYdNh5tbkd95lveCtwslBG0uIdeAuOMpq2-UN6-pq9YaaYfgYwm-yTfcFmMo7vfCeglopXyjAE0XOK0QCy_JYR88H7JdAqhKldlDavLxt3JVGOL6XxW8czJ7Em5OZ599KI0tJs4O_5T3OdXAvbNeq8T_cnJZiqX758U/w640-h516/1703264923330.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Hale Rocket system was made from pieces of plastic cut and glued until it looked OK. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXzmOH5VkQVqj9E74OqBCwNes6sfX0R_7sH_YEgTmPkh5DlSn3WsZuGfFxxh4lfExb8uF22FAPklgJbOalr2ndymlJYBYS8zFUd-65P7gCBhsUfj4DwybweNY7MPKypMS2sTpig1H1_e7k7LpGYYYlu5rIP_JG-u7r4gxYW83rf9fLMsLSOG9fFjB-8Lc/s2446/1703264923301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2056" data-original-width="2446" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXzmOH5VkQVqj9E74OqBCwNes6sfX0R_7sH_YEgTmPkh5DlSn3WsZuGfFxxh4lfExb8uF22FAPklgJbOalr2ndymlJYBYS8zFUd-65P7gCBhsUfj4DwybweNY7MPKypMS2sTpig1H1_e7k7LpGYYYlu5rIP_JG-u7r4gxYW83rf9fLMsLSOG9fFjB-8Lc/w640-h538/1703264923301.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Just in order to have and officer in their striking blue jacket I made one last stand of Natal Native Horse. All figures are converted Confederates from Revell and A Call to Arms.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijmQ4R2mhVNiDeFQi2ZeJqudYPonRruHwfqBau-CiXIdqW_uzbjyr17nw6n36SfeCBzcOjgFanX2Hy7A4mp9gF-m2iag_Vg_pRxL0OwYPIGVEeHZd4uHsWi6cYQbTKKq2e3c0Q3XGZOidwkfqXtP_thmmuK1K3iHijCbr_OtrmE_xPF-tDI5qwoUfBhU0/s2832/1703264923308.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="2832" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijmQ4R2mhVNiDeFQi2ZeJqudYPonRruHwfqBau-CiXIdqW_uzbjyr17nw6n36SfeCBzcOjgFanX2Hy7A4mp9gF-m2iag_Vg_pRxL0OwYPIGVEeHZd4uHsWi6cYQbTKKq2e3c0Q3XGZOidwkfqXtP_thmmuK1K3iHijCbr_OtrmE_xPF-tDI5qwoUfBhU0/w640-h526/1703264923308.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 3rd and last NNC company was made from the original Esci Zulus with added plastic card shields. Only the officer is - again - a Confederate Esci figure. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHb9jeWTckn7x_APdb8oBynWYLxSS49d5vXxsj92gOopbfVNEvmRzjbWebcfTprVmAvIfeSOFkB3VtQMLfIJLLc0FyPDzsrQ2jnxAIPkZTVIyjfNinugWx9oISw_9JNpLghT3ccY5rXX6vGp_p-qFVCJ7VFUQSmx_Fe4VxT7Qe3sP-DVWXBCK3r69iHA/s4000/1703264923324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="4000" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHb9jeWTckn7x_APdb8oBynWYLxSS49d5vXxsj92gOopbfVNEvmRzjbWebcfTprVmAvIfeSOFkB3VtQMLfIJLLc0FyPDzsrQ2jnxAIPkZTVIyjfNinugWx9oISw_9JNpLghT3ccY5rXX6vGp_p-qFVCJ7VFUQSmx_Fe4VxT7Qe3sP-DVWXBCK3r69iHA/w640-h478/1703264923324.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I also finished some more 200 Zulus figures, many in plastic card shields and central spines made of pieces of broom sticks. This kind of shields are also the ones on the previous NCC figures. <p></p><p>Next: BREM-K vehicles for the Russians in Ukraine. </p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-74313975125770267042023-12-19T10:39:00.000-08:002023-12-24T08:38:42.753-08:00The battle of Isandlwana 1879 in 20mm<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/FNQRu8SwzRk?si=sQpyTxGImqMVQSxL" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In this video you have both the Zulu and British armies at the battle of Isandlwana. Everything is plastic with mostly Esci and a few A Call To Arms and Revell conversions. The Esci Zulus don´t have enough shields on the box so plenty of them were made from Evergreen plastic card. Some corrections: I mention the release of the Esci colonial sets at the end of the 80ies when in fact they were released in 1984 (thanks PSR) and I call ´regiments´ to the six stands of British infantry when I wanted to call them companies, obviously (five from the Ist battalion/24th foot and one from the 2nd).</span></div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-17913390671042955352023-11-17T03:16:00.000-08:002023-11-23T06:20:46.667-08:0028mm Warlord WW2 Soviet infantry<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ForfkkgW1vOlPVqEjOpy9iclKA-ww3xfPetFSScl97Ing3z7v7JA2KWrqjATjDwxC3wZtTgraUs8nQ9AG5SfH0asDmYM85ulMJClDXTdIKmSFfPGiezpSM6JQIxPUw5_WX2ryTsPlZuScy3o5K0ktiHZ2lBqJWRvO3bbOJBGji_REleDo309ddxscjk/s3360/1700218103900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1499" data-original-width="3360" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ForfkkgW1vOlPVqEjOpy9iclKA-ww3xfPetFSScl97Ing3z7v7JA2KWrqjATjDwxC3wZtTgraUs8nQ9AG5SfH0asDmYM85ulMJClDXTdIKmSFfPGiezpSM6JQIxPUw5_WX2ryTsPlZuScy3o5K0ktiHZ2lBqJWRvO3bbOJBGji_REleDo309ddxscjk/w640-h286/1700218103900.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Last week, and after 7 years of patient waiting, I painted a box of 40 Warlord WW2 Soviet infantry for my friend JMM. All figures became different from one another as both the sprues of bodies and weapons easily allows for it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpsxJMFwev4xNIAT_v7m4ySSkRZvN_tMFt2TcnqBFwrgyEfa4rpGBM647M8zZ7zVdGaQzAQ7SzlwAqg7aBlK0T4rs9GjsvFPz3PQzD83AUCHO14xH8J102-SwcE17H8Yd7zYPy2URn8-bY34XEoy2Y_xHOZasAb0coyHXXAayts_XdLB_ItKIY-ib01M/s1651/1700218103885.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1345" data-original-width="1651" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpsxJMFwev4xNIAT_v7m4ySSkRZvN_tMFt2TcnqBFwrgyEfa4rpGBM647M8zZ7zVdGaQzAQ7SzlwAqg7aBlK0T4rs9GjsvFPz3PQzD83AUCHO14xH8J102-SwcE17H8Yd7zYPy2URn8-bY34XEoy2Y_xHOZasAb0coyHXXAayts_XdLB_ItKIY-ib01M/w640-h522/1700218103885.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The figures are very good, even if time consuming at assembling due to separate weapons that sometimes are tricky to glue to the arms. Here one of the officers became an NKVD officer, a kind of psychologist, specialist at persuasion. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9RsGcztfNrVViUjweC2OlyQ5YFw4RhNniFtpASGUD74zEQpeTSEkhDINg2DEY1GUHkh53kcmzhvl4_kWvpK2UmgxU6DcdnwmU1gTleQ5-G1yRi2v32rHZqTmcFFw1x7G4hLHyK6XcW6V5n_XZP1HuCOS4p473COFzHsMv6atBiW1nVK07iZ7wjEGR5A/s1852/1700218103889.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1427" data-original-width="1852" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9RsGcztfNrVViUjweC2OlyQ5YFw4RhNniFtpASGUD74zEQpeTSEkhDINg2DEY1GUHkh53kcmzhvl4_kWvpK2UmgxU6DcdnwmU1gTleQ5-G1yRi2v32rHZqTmcFFw1x7G4hLHyK6XcW6V5n_XZP1HuCOS4p473COFzHsMv6atBiW1nVK07iZ7wjEGR5A/w640-h494/1700218103889.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Only two figures got converted. One of the laying down bodies became a radio/telephone operator with extra radio and telephone made out of EverGreen plastic. The other other is the obvious Vassily Zaitzev with a cape made of tissue paper. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNAtTVUr9Xn0oKSG3DutDaqlfULUIISrZG9Prk_CpZe0_Je6Hh1UWmuDz8OB-yspZsQdodu13iY8G2NEw9VdN7I24ch_duRnjpY4nAhYVlawPMWGuuONbwk8H9ajcMOy8vih9nOV4VP7LFrgVgY9GmYgqgHutvBt4dCfGrYLUQoE5ETrWwyL9RIGpxM4/s1305/1700218103894.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="1305" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNAtTVUr9Xn0oKSG3DutDaqlfULUIISrZG9Prk_CpZe0_Je6Hh1UWmuDz8OB-yspZsQdodu13iY8G2NEw9VdN7I24ch_duRnjpY4nAhYVlawPMWGuuONbwk8H9ajcMOy8vih9nOV4VP7LFrgVgY9GmYgqgHutvBt4dCfGrYLUQoE5ETrWwyL9RIGpxM4/w640-h576/1700218103894.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> The Soviet standard uniform (L) was painted with Vallejo Russin uniform while the Telogreika was painted with Vallejo Grey Brown. I painted them as I paint my 20mm figures: black spray as primer; followed by the main colors; then, main colors with 50% white all mixed. The helmets get a bit of metal color mixed with dark green as somehow they become more lively. <p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-30884761555258080522023-11-11T05:14:00.002-08:002023-11-30T05:24:20.814-08:00Airfix nostalgia batch from the 50´s built and painted<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUrBtrL8sRNSCBJ3RolbwAN1bOfcdx3QBhUlb7rpFapUKfJtEA6lTUXqPAacopd5qwQMG2nfSueE1c1BxOve6XAXwsIxh4xptBLewXwkeC4zCV85Tr-PLkbSS0y907bwSHrbGRE_3rnIqYOTEGuAV3p21ybZoSok9VsA_jnb8wVu9bqO7rqCVS81fh6U/s3052/1699614264863.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2348" data-original-width="3052" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUrBtrL8sRNSCBJ3RolbwAN1bOfcdx3QBhUlb7rpFapUKfJtEA6lTUXqPAacopd5qwQMG2nfSueE1c1BxOve6XAXwsIxh4xptBLewXwkeC4zCV85Tr-PLkbSS0y907bwSHrbGRE_3rnIqYOTEGuAV3p21ybZoSok9VsA_jnb8wVu9bqO7rqCVS81fh6U/w640-h492/1699614264863.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some two years ago I found a batch of eight very old bagged Airfix models from the 50´s and 60´s for sale in our local flea market in Coimbra. They looked OK, for the exception of the card which contained the instructions of the kit, completely ruined. No parts missing and a group that could be useful for a number of wargames scenarios. Besides I could revisit models like the Lysander or the Gladiator that I had decades ago and that got ruined on their own or eaten by my dear Breque, an Epagneul Breton that loved to chew plastic. Probably he simply loved everything I did, and my scent was probably in the painted models. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3mDh9nhXIl05uqihFTqLSlYYleG4rTpcEb5Wo2bCLfIELQYwWGUR0mq-xPyQlzfyIwJaoIwv8pTr16prArbl__j1c42i9SffR2r3KZ2mO_6hz14SWO3SEuRSQQs5gDoAt6LklgqqpqO46EiCCVFOGsetBuNR4QxptCv9UkK-brKWfJeF8X9bJFVK6u4/s1220/267503142_4870584259630880_6687995481401291941_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3mDh9nhXIl05uqihFTqLSlYYleG4rTpcEb5Wo2bCLfIELQYwWGUR0mq-xPyQlzfyIwJaoIwv8pTr16prArbl__j1c42i9SffR2r3KZ2mO_6hz14SWO3SEuRSQQs5gDoAt6LklgqqpqO46EiCCVFOGsetBuNR4QxptCv9UkK-brKWfJeF8X9bJFVK6u4/w566-h640/267503142_4870584259630880_6687995481401291941_n.jpg" width="566" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">They were like this. At the beginning the seller wanted 75 euro each but in the end I took the lot for 90 euros after explaining him that the instructions were not understandable, with paper that got so moldy that self destroyed while touching. Of course this is BS as you can find the instructions easily in the Web. Only the Comet Racer was put aside as it has no purpose in wargaming. All these models took some 20 minutes each to build, with closed cockpits and a flow of super glue in all joints in order to harden the construction. All decals were mostly ruined and markings had to be hand painted. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQbtWrRdExdb7uGvKLNiGtAvN1I082CeXImhB_0bO57nhqvYigBBxilGTJsOyYc_DgeN98dTDIzkT4t6AMuc8IiRcl_5CM0hk_MdZAJd9tuauDysW4_TrfgzCc2B0K63JaQUZVbT05nOJrUuiJge-b8CKwZ6Nv_KubeHzI4NJj8ku-8jqV-U5pPGzEI8/s2811/1699614264831.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2259" data-original-width="2811" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQbtWrRdExdb7uGvKLNiGtAvN1I082CeXImhB_0bO57nhqvYigBBxilGTJsOyYc_DgeN98dTDIzkT4t6AMuc8IiRcl_5CM0hk_MdZAJd9tuauDysW4_TrfgzCc2B0K63JaQUZVbT05nOJrUuiJge-b8CKwZ6Nv_KubeHzI4NJj8ku-8jqV-U5pPGzEI8/w640-h514/1699614264831.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I already have a number of these Fiat G.50 bis for my desert Italians so this one was converted for the SCW Nationalists, and the G.50 Freccia version. For that the rotor of the changed and a piece of heated plastic covered the open cockpit. I just followed the nice cover of the AML kit for the painting scheme. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TABG0XxcM_DGIk4SSzxQNslqYVwAJRxja3ayEQ1pvMnGQuyNiVxriF83gtCqr2v3RY71nN-FPFOx6P2wBj89aRsl5Or9G4rgeBPUBb375uLAOeJSEEJnCCvink1PJliv1cemIYR4yLetf3oibukCrgWh5veJzQM41skiimw0VigwskSqFXMublkHW1o/s2302/1699614264869.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2302" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TABG0XxcM_DGIk4SSzxQNslqYVwAJRxja3ayEQ1pvMnGQuyNiVxriF83gtCqr2v3RY71nN-FPFOx6P2wBj89aRsl5Or9G4rgeBPUBb375uLAOeJSEEJnCCvink1PJliv1cemIYR4yLetf3oibukCrgWh5veJzQM41skiimw0VigwskSqFXMublkHW1o/w640-h474/1699614264869.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When I opened the Gladiator bag I could see the very old Airfix way of having a pilot. I think this one must be from around 1957, so 11 years older than me! The pilot convinced me that the Gladiator I had in the past must have been the Matchbox one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwzLxQrgryd5mgl4WVqbByti1uRn6oKDZ0XpcoNpEoAdSEgv0DEWln9j1TPxAPoIwGASghVw9SFLB-OiwzF-otff9FQ4-PNVa_MOfAE87DjaHBBGETGOx6BSyToz_T9za0Eg1FYAP0_nyC3nJElEXQecguNiWxO6X-7EBiqRCBpzfjZ8LEnzmKz1BsZE/s2379/1699614264789.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="2379" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwzLxQrgryd5mgl4WVqbByti1uRn6oKDZ0XpcoNpEoAdSEgv0DEWln9j1TPxAPoIwGASghVw9SFLB-OiwzF-otff9FQ4-PNVa_MOfAE87DjaHBBGETGOx6BSyToz_T9za0Eg1FYAP0_nyC3nJElEXQecguNiWxO6X-7EBiqRCBpzfjZ8LEnzmKz1BsZE/w640-h494/1699614264789.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I used this standard camouflage as it fit the two squadrons present in France 1940 before being replaced by Hurricanes, and the ones present in Crete. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9lMnsYRa0W4NW2ZpT2xgsql-MskzqwtkO0-j_DJrpSyyPGo2xjNgP5vfqSoVXLkY7wcL7LsR3s9tWW42NZBlVem3yYid-Rcj91_WJ-CEg8TxvvxqkrOl7WknIVQDuxQMlwYmRuBUSu84Odeo-2ZvXpOOI1JrBBbf-28x3WCSos3bAFKYtTAfEQPGaok/s3697/1699614264840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2303" data-original-width="3697" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9lMnsYRa0W4NW2ZpT2xgsql-MskzqwtkO0-j_DJrpSyyPGo2xjNgP5vfqSoVXLkY7wcL7LsR3s9tWW42NZBlVem3yYid-Rcj91_WJ-CEg8TxvvxqkrOl7WknIVQDuxQMlwYmRuBUSu84Odeo-2ZvXpOOI1JrBBbf-28x3WCSos3bAFKYtTAfEQPGaok/w640-h398/1699614264840.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In the end it became 'Joe' Fraser aircraft of No 112 Squadron at Crete, 1941. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMhBOcbJKzfX3GH_lRJos90lgsYZuJ80D-XUmeYGEh9tKusz42P3Zx2YCcYiiCMbordpqPKYI61U3amAP7_GFam_-zzUUEGE8qmbXiTesn2hsKSIQ-IV1GZTGet0A2BdsmMcjS7szkey3ySyLPWWIBVA19ixUxChWMqmAv2WxiV2Zpl0rskOf_7x82ps/s3140/1699614264847.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2221" data-original-width="3140" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMhBOcbJKzfX3GH_lRJos90lgsYZuJ80D-XUmeYGEh9tKusz42P3Zx2YCcYiiCMbordpqPKYI61U3amAP7_GFam_-zzUUEGE8qmbXiTesn2hsKSIQ-IV1GZTGet0A2BdsmMcjS7szkey3ySyLPWWIBVA19ixUxChWMqmAv2WxiV2Zpl0rskOf_7x82ps/w640-h452/1699614264847.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Westland Lysander became one from the No 13 Army Cooperation Squadron in France 1939/40.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cb3u6ku3XrNKYLvUJAJdGHdy4SSI3dm0q2ix-DLKMtbTVbI0UrvG041ni2F7wisc1becIekz8Nvfdg5eE8A2V-K4P1Z8d4ZyTImiQiDLSsgesvwqRYZ-RzVL5R9wnJRgO_CmaEjW33DszM5J06uDXLZO5V6xwUlrrZiUSe5FMiHOOMk6jVl3RiCKCU0/s3091/1699614264854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="3091" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cb3u6ku3XrNKYLvUJAJdGHdy4SSI3dm0q2ix-DLKMtbTVbI0UrvG041ni2F7wisc1becIekz8Nvfdg5eE8A2V-K4P1Z8d4ZyTImiQiDLSsgesvwqRYZ-RzVL5R9wnJRgO_CmaEjW33DszM5J06uDXLZO5V6xwUlrrZiUSe5FMiHOOMk6jVl3RiCKCU0/w640-h346/1699614264854.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The only part missing (slipped from the holes in the bag) from the entire lot was the right wheel of the Lysander. I had to built on from scratch in plastic card, GreenStuff and a new small wheel copying the left one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKj24Xp5Bj3Z3hC6ER6KajIM0iPYtnuZ394aFwd-s6-4yJVtQ8HyXYJ8aq1sI6FaXBc2h8p0pfj4PGmtspnp_B2y2ZhuBPZPAaJEF8BHkLgxcOGElrPGq1O24AmQdLkf3JGCuX-RPGgD7SPok0p2K3kVrWBVk6nycQO2Z0HC3lTbYIIfiL3w3kLgKa-g/s2851/1699614264814.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2178" data-original-width="2851" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKj24Xp5Bj3Z3hC6ER6KajIM0iPYtnuZ394aFwd-s6-4yJVtQ8HyXYJ8aq1sI6FaXBc2h8p0pfj4PGmtspnp_B2y2ZhuBPZPAaJEF8BHkLgxcOGElrPGq1O24AmQdLkf3JGCuX-RPGgD7SPok0p2K3kVrWBVk6nycQO2Z0HC3lTbYIIfiL3w3kLgKa-g/w640-h488/1699614264814.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I already have several of these both in plastic and die-cast but this P-47D is always a nice addition. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcMhxegqibbEy8JiZ0xhZF2DtdPQ0dLuiCo9UWPwHun0-AqcxoGtJG0hqMp_dfrgpuHfKRjgPukuV5lEooYUWxRqv6zGUPDvAyVvzvzcOjpO796pep0ST7uYYI6dgNK2wWlzOXygrIfZtYa6iaTwZrB607i51pUWXxz6Jt9IyEgbmacY93Ql0TM-S1qo/s2811/1699614116112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2323" data-original-width="2811" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcMhxegqibbEy8JiZ0xhZF2DtdPQ0dLuiCo9UWPwHun0-AqcxoGtJG0hqMp_dfrgpuHfKRjgPukuV5lEooYUWxRqv6zGUPDvAyVvzvzcOjpO796pep0ST7uYYI6dgNK2wWlzOXygrIfZtYa6iaTwZrB607i51pUWXxz6Jt9IyEgbmacY93Ql0TM-S1qo/w640-h528/1699614116112.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I like a scruffy finish to the under parts of the aircrafts. Yes, that is the hand of your beloved author but the left one that is only used to hold stuff and not the one that really makes all this magic!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOSiNzd4ATV0f-Yg4sZzJ_fky58p0ngnEIjPv2AtKxtV0UEaUpo1OuqRqG6TQfGW1UEqtazbW2FoS9lNMgsTCNMAmlEBe3-pOpLDfcAuRm5S7iQSXWr3sc3kCJaxQPVw_8JBVNt2LK54BAxYcnk1YWNoCZ6qi56AbcVoXes7seKlJB25usrPr8A2CTE0/s2624/1699614264823.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="2624" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOSiNzd4ATV0f-Yg4sZzJ_fky58p0ngnEIjPv2AtKxtV0UEaUpo1OuqRqG6TQfGW1UEqtazbW2FoS9lNMgsTCNMAmlEBe3-pOpLDfcAuRm5S7iQSXWr3sc3kCJaxQPVw_8JBVNt2LK54BAxYcnk1YWNoCZ6qi56AbcVoXes7seKlJB25usrPr8A2CTE0/w640-h498/1699614264823.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Grumman Gosling for the RN joined the ranks. Its something virtually useless for wargaming but its cute. The colors are not the right ones as I copied some printed painted instructions. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlc45jz5X8ytt4TGzb-kGFUHRa-5qvMQ-kQwbudEMSXBaNutAw9AHSeBI2lomZG8dtj96enG5mR5wgcMuiNa6Tehsf_l5MMrhUP8kLXtSvoqhx6HB2bKRKOlnwde5_emq3cC9647ppChP2pj_YboKsqVBmdV78LEUjoB3fR-DzY2UkThZ6IC85LkrVcjQ/s2681/1699614264806.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1779" data-original-width="2681" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlc45jz5X8ytt4TGzb-kGFUHRa-5qvMQ-kQwbudEMSXBaNutAw9AHSeBI2lomZG8dtj96enG5mR5wgcMuiNa6Tehsf_l5MMrhUP8kLXtSvoqhx6HB2bKRKOlnwde5_emq3cC9647ppChP2pj_YboKsqVBmdV78LEUjoB3fR-DzY2UkThZ6IC85LkrVcjQ/w640-h424/1699614264806.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Australian Boomerang is my first and ready to fight the Japanese. Here it shows the colors of a sample at Mildura in 1943. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cGfsjdZ5LniF4sdnuMTI3CKoh40mavTyd39z5RDkww6DkFr72irGgkXwEEGMBydiEu1yHRmdtuRY47e74JaN9Z3pMy5VGTsbl6Ul5FnSivjSuRA8jhWfzeG5VocyYjNp19E0gHjkuS4Yxn08ZaYC7FPVHIheAYC3cDzdiKhyphenhyphen7ElRTOm1NfLeT1UuuF0/s3431/1699614264799.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="3431" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cGfsjdZ5LniF4sdnuMTI3CKoh40mavTyd39z5RDkww6DkFr72irGgkXwEEGMBydiEu1yHRmdtuRY47e74JaN9Z3pMy5VGTsbl6Ul5FnSivjSuRA8jhWfzeG5VocyYjNp19E0gHjkuS4Yxn08ZaYC7FPVHIheAYC3cDzdiKhyphenhyphen7ElRTOm1NfLeT1UuuF0/w640-h340/1699614264799.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Finally, an Iranian F-5 fighter jet joins two die-casts in the shelves in my struggle to balance my Iraqi air force that counts some 30+ machines. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: a video of the Ukrainian army in 2022/23 or the Iraqi 3rd Saladin AD. </div>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-87757084623396956372023-11-10T11:36:00.001-08:002024-01-04T04:13:42.189-08:00Hastings 1066 - The Saxon Lithsmen in 20mm for Impetus rules<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgGqvb3ddpk_S8nn3B_OJ3pHBZJ2yBqX5kU1ilAddD630lZqRD7FteJV1AHsnD64Z0UtA40uGJk9xvdriVxgV-rvyE74IytYbVzakMVUxUkqdN6kJ6bciNFZsJIngWEiUA79JmN30rJ06Z7Mmu2BuA1fsUtQO6LcswkveV9_GUnYdi7wfFHerqfsH-yk/s3194/1699644233433.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2357" data-original-width="3194" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgGqvb3ddpk_S8nn3B_OJ3pHBZJ2yBqX5kU1ilAddD630lZqRD7FteJV1AHsnD64Z0UtA40uGJk9xvdriVxgV-rvyE74IytYbVzakMVUxUkqdN6kJ6bciNFZsJIngWEiUA79JmN30rJ06Z7Mmu2BuA1fsUtQO6LcswkveV9_GUnYdi7wfFHerqfsH-yk/w640-h472/1699644233433.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The Saxon line at Hastings had Nordic mercenary -Lithsman- also. I imagine them with Viking looks which favours the beginning of a Viking army for the previous battle, Stamford Bridge and many others. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztYMVYhrqy-5qo9-K1DfwlkMoi6byAF2yH4DcZfT4M9095rcv2IGGmVQxheLtoD_GKmP2pUX3ig8lRQ0wVJQYEbjeXtBa0IeIk6apA5p1WgyVv0l2gMwWDCa4J9Kjtkyc1d4kf3Sf2t6FGDJpxb0Rv5D57MDICmpg3fhPkxlcEBgpMPILmbGajYHSLPE/s2000/1699644233422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1872" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztYMVYhrqy-5qo9-K1DfwlkMoi6byAF2yH4DcZfT4M9095rcv2IGGmVQxheLtoD_GKmP2pUX3ig8lRQ0wVJQYEbjeXtBa0IeIk6apA5p1WgyVv0l2gMwWDCa4J9Kjtkyc1d4kf3Sf2t6FGDJpxb0Rv5D57MDICmpg3fhPkxlcEBgpMPILmbGajYHSLPE/w600-h640/1699644233422.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I gave them a Nordic look with plenty of axes and blond hair. All figures with the Gjermundbu helmet were concentrated in these stands as this helmet is typically Nordic and a trademark of Viking equipment. Some of the figures got a spear instead of a sword as Revell (and before Elastolin, which are copied in the Revell box) exaggerated the number of swords. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MbkqjXvDMZ_yO6uc_xYbGrcJZ23DR27sQinNjs8CcERj_Bs8-tmPbgmBAYqGXgj__Msgo9gzwLAtiCFds6NJTJYSPf59tM_AuUnKQB86MZJsfF_YSdIGfBrNZCofKUQU4j2mC8ppuwB-uzYOWRKY7Z3zR0B0hxgTssdVz2kvXQnEjkGzDSI_5bMu30U/s3858/1699644233427.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="3858" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MbkqjXvDMZ_yO6uc_xYbGrcJZ23DR27sQinNjs8CcERj_Bs8-tmPbgmBAYqGXgj__Msgo9gzwLAtiCFds6NJTJYSPf59tM_AuUnKQB86MZJsfF_YSdIGfBrNZCofKUQU4j2mC8ppuwB-uzYOWRKY7Z3zR0B0hxgTssdVz2kvXQnEjkGzDSI_5bMu30U/w640-h258/1699644233427.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Like this the Saxon army grew to 15 stands and 5 more Fyrd stands will make it complete. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Next: My latest batch of Airfix models from the 50's or a video on the Iraqi 3rd Saladin Armored Division in 1991. </p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443869906224599299.post-77566275776923536582023-11-06T02:45:00.001-08:002023-11-06T12:25:10.422-08:00The French tank projects for 1941 in 20mm for Rapid Fire! rules<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2txk4tpIhZAf_IcHSuGLhYix9EooSRmA0sK4Xu758NGCBYMccnDtVceqi7ZAwXj-kqNL9APKluTjbN7295S3BN05zORASdHsGU0XLJ8I-AM9ritcZMzJQ2Dl4mhLsFs6jQ09CAID4TbnMzRRXAdOW_9-eCAiyEXOmhhWPWSiTc3hf7Mcby2LJkhkhqfc/s3288/1699037857553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1984" data-original-width="3288" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2txk4tpIhZAf_IcHSuGLhYix9EooSRmA0sK4Xu758NGCBYMccnDtVceqi7ZAwXj-kqNL9APKluTjbN7295S3BN05zORASdHsGU0XLJ8I-AM9ritcZMzJQ2Dl4mhLsFs6jQ09CAID4TbnMzRRXAdOW_9-eCAiyEXOmhhWPWSiTc3hf7Mcby2LJkhkhqfc/w640-h386/1699037857553.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">If the French had held the Germans (if also the British, the Belgians and the Dutch did the same) maybe, just maybe, a future French tank column might have looked like this one. In fact this group is made of disparate vehicles with no relation to any French 1941 unit, just a group of vehicle projects that never saw its integration in the French army (that excludes the Lafflys W15T). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQITWc-CQp9jOB3y5IIhyphenhyphenad3jTl5wbsgCG9ZXCVOsKjKzj2LfeUoGct9BPrphFRi62_44t0ubMe8Ft-qEBn4UQPQV-7jIWgrzB828Bz6EF0avJ_pp_PfgQ2jpW9BCDaKJCQuqf6uzfwO3M51fI59jwnVyfUTmeIf6tmsEtNuBo88kfPU-2-o_gQvGNvE/s3688/IMG_20231029_082056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2836" data-original-width="3688" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQITWc-CQp9jOB3y5IIhyphenhyphenad3jTl5wbsgCG9ZXCVOsKjKzj2LfeUoGct9BPrphFRi62_44t0ubMe8Ft-qEBn4UQPQV-7jIWgrzB828Bz6EF0avJ_pp_PfgQ2jpW9BCDaKJCQuqf6uzfwO3M51fI59jwnVyfUTmeIf6tmsEtNuBo88kfPU-2-o_gQvGNvE/w640-h492/IMG_20231029_082056.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is one of the possible futuristic organisations of the French army 1941 (eventually late 1940), in this case an armored division as thought by the Commander Ayme. The picture is taken from the GBM magazine ('what else?' as George Clooney would say). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPZecm3ZTGyEijsCfJ3-N-HPBr0-mCCm9AyelWF7JiM5KVtkpQe8eRbB_YQyv21_ru09covzuUtGGbPJkVkNPWwM2y9b8rvTd3cgq18oyBa4tNCGIg4hE6bg3viRq27oM6SjpoVgUAJrijSfi3zVSI40-tTUnmxKQBVFGTPxp2JbkwWhyphenhyphenbDjtbz8nLgU/s3624/1699037857535.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="3624" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPZecm3ZTGyEijsCfJ3-N-HPBr0-mCCm9AyelWF7JiM5KVtkpQe8eRbB_YQyv21_ru09covzuUtGGbPJkVkNPWwM2y9b8rvTd3cgq18oyBa4tNCGIg4hE6bg3viRq27oM6SjpoVgUAJrijSfi3zVSI40-tTUnmxKQBVFGTPxp2JbkwWhyphenhyphenbDjtbz8nLgU/w640-h528/1699037857535.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The FCM F1 would have been one of the biggest tanks of the conflict with 120 tons but only a wooden mockup was built. It was designed to pierce the Siegfried line while replacing the aging Char 2C. The model is a MiniGeneral PLA 3d print, like all others in this group, which had to take two coats of varnish before the primer to see most of its printing lines relatively disguised. The camouflage of the lot is based on the latest scheme applied to French vehicles around may 1940. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0QCHAq12SE4dMCumN9T_TmbHlP9Xwxn7_Ks9DOH0x5Z_iDhnCDNlXKRZVPMHD1_xQ1W4U0FtVRrasP3Pbrn5yXorhKxO4m_ViyJsRptAbt5MP0J9MrpOWtrrMJbn3tUhA27xlh8wxwqC2zJB_1kqG39RioiPfi8dIByeVrl83E8k2m0qXa4YkFJACcQ/s4000/IMG_20231027_121249.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="4000" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0QCHAq12SE4dMCumN9T_TmbHlP9Xwxn7_Ks9DOH0x5Z_iDhnCDNlXKRZVPMHD1_xQ1W4U0FtVRrasP3Pbrn5yXorhKxO4m_ViyJsRptAbt5MP0J9MrpOWtrrMJbn3tUhA27xlh8wxwqC2zJB_1kqG39RioiPfi8dIByeVrl83E8k2m0qXa4YkFJACcQ/w640-h478/IMG_20231027_121249.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Another possible painting scheme is to copy the Char 2C layout as can be seen in this TNT magazine proposal. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCVXW_ioZdpqIu1Stg6kmeS6OJqJ2s3dlWIU8tVxpr4vzGG5wSNSw4mL0T2gXDMAaykNKrbbOv6rfdcImEuTvJTzci1ZE_zthCQ6hDVTC_VHIAj8-By8-B2qMwGCZfeanpf_xwV8RMxWI168qxWbAziQyaUxwZ1qpfFkpfAVJsKcoh_YNFERgOvdRZMc/s4000/IMG_20231027_121307.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="4000" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCVXW_ioZdpqIu1Stg6kmeS6OJqJ2s3dlWIU8tVxpr4vzGG5wSNSw4mL0T2gXDMAaykNKrbbOv6rfdcImEuTvJTzci1ZE_zthCQ6hDVTC_VHIAj8-By8-B2qMwGCZfeanpf_xwV8RMxWI168qxWbAziQyaUxwZ1qpfFkpfAVJsKcoh_YNFERgOvdRZMc/w640-h478/IMG_20231027_121307.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Another camouflage also from TNT, which is the same I used in my two Char 2C. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxbEbUPAtl3HbUHqV45E_in-fLMQcpH4j07TDiwxTCOw2kFz3goX6szjNyoXuDPL6nVu1ZNhilxrl-13iflz836-J0sS4na68fYBJTjMnO6Lf7n9RcvJRud0n2u6Fms2S5v3mvRBA5Eaqw_zYsIna1LT5Y1dZLXLrxM09BxIPaKbz7CHrxAE2PH80OvI/s3359/1699037857517.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2574" data-original-width="3359" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxbEbUPAtl3HbUHqV45E_in-fLMQcpH4j07TDiwxTCOw2kFz3goX6szjNyoXuDPL6nVu1ZNhilxrl-13iflz836-J0sS4na68fYBJTjMnO6Lf7n9RcvJRud0n2u6Fms2S5v3mvRBA5Eaqw_zYsIna1LT5Y1dZLXLrxM09BxIPaKbz7CHrxAE2PH80OvI/w640-h490/1699037857517.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Laffly W15T was already serving in the French army as the tow for the 25mm and 47mm AT guns and the 25mm AA gun. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VL9zw1ZRu4ZqNAAwJBmZIfPwJI8LJSIqodqeRrKyPQ5WwH1z3JyXKX-hIuPjFSlK3LQKPx-gmX1GtdUFl39PommTOTxJUzbF3GxRH-86IuMuAjrfQNSY3GmUEHkRFvakfpTQtqbXlAfQdbKcSATYf7bXxrhI-1B6UlNsz9T14_KvZUgS2e9KvcaHKxQ/s474/w15t25_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="474" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VL9zw1ZRu4ZqNAAwJBmZIfPwJI8LJSIqodqeRrKyPQ5WwH1z3JyXKX-hIuPjFSlK3LQKPx-gmX1GtdUFl39PommTOTxJUzbF3GxRH-86IuMuAjrfQNSY3GmUEHkRFvakfpTQtqbXlAfQdbKcSATYf7bXxrhI-1B6UlNsz9T14_KvZUgS2e9KvcaHKxQ/w640-h348/w15t25_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A famous picture of the Laffly W15T with LMG mount and making its usual business of towing the 25mm CA39 AA gun. </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy6EEIslq1boVBGDIf7A9ce0GSnpFz8h_8oCStXtAHoWfmeudkVWTtpL2b0BSOLoJ7g7aa3tEFAtNfLs1IQ124CCNUWXdL-fQiA02Xv-zwQcxhbC7Js3lNdkwAk5g5_Bs062VhyphenhyphenAQ7dE93p6fkdY8VDDig_uOXG7Cqfv06KuAvSX4NWI4fN6f9PBypC00/s3003/IMG_20231025_153930.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1901" data-original-width="3003" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy6EEIslq1boVBGDIf7A9ce0GSnpFz8h_8oCStXtAHoWfmeudkVWTtpL2b0BSOLoJ7g7aa3tEFAtNfLs1IQ124CCNUWXdL-fQiA02Xv-zwQcxhbC7Js3lNdkwAk5g5_Bs062VhyphenhyphenAQ7dE93p6fkdY8VDDig_uOXG7Cqfv06KuAvSX4NWI4fN6f9PBypC00/w640-h406/IMG_20231025_153930.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The additions to the models were the metal and soft plastic drivers and the LMG from Caesar on a support as seen on the B/W picture. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaSa0M7WSgF5pInJv0Bmtd7z2YvKLxNPXJyQx9USdBpmJhInqgzncJ8xQZ4dLmI3FjyovI-1LHWL3TG0PgtWiuEnTuauLiCvu0trwZtm5BMAISPW34bkVrD7Zq5R3iEaYrkbwGSJuDMGWPek28b_UN8W33Feu3TMBQ1M-a43YLXje8V21q4SMRM5Mvrw/s2390/1699037857500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2181" data-original-width="2390" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaSa0M7WSgF5pInJv0Bmtd7z2YvKLxNPXJyQx9USdBpmJhInqgzncJ8xQZ4dLmI3FjyovI-1LHWL3TG0PgtWiuEnTuauLiCvu0trwZtm5BMAISPW34bkVrD7Zq5R3iEaYrkbwGSJuDMGWPek28b_UN8W33Feu3TMBQ1M-a43YLXje8V21q4SMRM5Mvrw/w640-h584/1699037857500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">No, this is not the famous Panhard EBR of post-war fame but its predecessor, the AM40P that already had an oscillating turret and bullet proof tyres. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF87fOA5Al2H36-20AIsAXaM6-Y3M5yOYSPNn4gOAZQVY9YYmhePMuyCmGcOXPcdM03JqjXT4h7oIapgflejK109d7E8-KvHCJy48YntH83Gof-9CCNBmHNyUSWQjdoVCcA63H2ri1RJb_dD57_DpA8JKi1edKoQOn3Wa1ehH3Wa_iBqYL4OCb0TxhSKk/s2409/1699037857509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="2409" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF87fOA5Al2H36-20AIsAXaM6-Y3M5yOYSPNn4gOAZQVY9YYmhePMuyCmGcOXPcdM03JqjXT4h7oIapgflejK109d7E8-KvHCJy48YntH83Gof-9CCNBmHNyUSWQjdoVCcA63H2ri1RJb_dD57_DpA8JKi1edKoQOn3Wa1ehH3Wa_iBqYL4OCb0TxhSKk/w640-h566/1699037857509.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The ARL V9 was the SPG for the DCR as it had parts of the Char B1bis. Only two were made but ended its short career hidden in a tunnel in Morocco. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiniIuV9QjjLIWmJQ4-fmnJ6eVS9nkJ5mT0yVFffbgL2ikexWz_fIHe43JnQvUbHaGPWXok2Q_3L1DgChg9nhyTCjlsGqanV9p5TzPrI7w9Yr1hZcNTaU3ykaY6Upo37P4y0mz9Z9qyudPSFMq47Ik-Sb0w3VbcnXKizu44bK8OX8ftuqxJGn8VKZ7Etug/s3208/1699037857525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2415" data-original-width="3208" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiniIuV9QjjLIWmJQ4-fmnJ6eVS9nkJ5mT0yVFffbgL2ikexWz_fIHe43JnQvUbHaGPWXok2Q_3L1DgChg9nhyTCjlsGqanV9p5TzPrI7w9Yr1hZcNTaU3ykaY6Upo37P4y0mz9Z9qyudPSFMq47Ik-Sb0w3VbcnXKizu44bK8OX8ftuqxJGn8VKZ7Etug/w640-h482/1699037857525.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The AMX 38 was meant to replacing the D2. Also only two different prototypes were built but not put into production. The figures are (left) Irregular Miniatures and (right) CP models. All models in the group have antennas which would have been a priority for sure for French tank warfare in late 1940/1941. I chose a buff color for the numbers on this group but this has no historical base.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next: the Saxon Lithsman at Hastings 1066.</div><p></p>João Pedro Peixotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497167196585927637noreply@blogger.com2