Sunday 22 September 2024

A few more 1919 Poles and White Russians

I have pushed on with some more 1919-20 Poles this week. Mainly cavalry with a few more infantry in the German Uniform.

These WW1 Germans bring my Royal Polish unit to over half painted, around 10 more infantry and an MG are they will be completed.

Left to right these are Renegade with a Studio Siberia Head swap, Wargames Atlantic plastic, Renegade and Great War Miniatures officer.
The Uhlans completed give me enough for a second squadron of these guys.
Again a mix of figures these include the first Scheltrum figures I a have painted along with a small mix of horses.
Here we have 3 Renegade German cavalry, 4 Scheltrum lancers including the right hand three, these have a mix of Scheltrum and Studio Siberia Heads. Two of the horses are Scheltrum which are very nice and the other 5 are Mutineer miniatures .
And on their bases ready for texturing.


Whilst doing this I also pulled together a couple of White Russian Officers as I was short for a game and decided to use the new light box with them.

Still needs extra lighting but nicer images than the last light box which is falling to pieces anyway.
These figures are Empress from the Tsuba Miniatures Russo-Japanese war range and very nice too.

Ive also finished some Plastoon (Foot Cossacks) and tried putting a house in the light box. Empress miniatures these and very nice too.


Cossacks provided their own uniform in large part and as Plastoon were Cossacks who couldnt afford a horse I am making them all with slightly different gear and in some cases white civilian shirts under the Cherkeska. The officer of course can afford a red dress shirt.
I have a few more of these, both Empress and Studio Siberia so will have at least two companies of 8.
Chris has taken to refering to them as "Naughty Cossacks" which does make me chuckle.
The Poles of course also need supporting arms, Rich Croisdale has painted the below Spad 13 fighter plane for me after Chris C built it, bit of a "Pain in the arse" this one but a lovely job. Thanks gents.
The Camo scheme is taken straight from google.
I made add a little dry brush to lift the model a little and give it some depth but really pleased with this addition.
The Poles had almost total air superiority and desperately needed it so this is a really useful addition and we will hopefully see this on table very soon.
I also picked up this lovely little armoured car from Company B.
Again painted and this time built for me by Rich Croisdale. Lovely model and the colour scheme straight off the box.
The vehicle is a converted Model T ford and the Poles had a few of these, it definately looks the part.
So the Poles are nearing a point where we might be able to get them on table. More to follow shortly.

Thanks for stopping by.

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