Saturday, January 8, 2022

Challenge Submission #2 - Early WW2 Polish Reinforcements

I started painting an early WW2 Polish army two years ago, and wanted to flesh it out with a few more support weapons and vehicles. For this submission I have completed a Polish 10th Motorized Brigade Squad, a Polish Army Medium Motor Team, a boxed set of Polish Army Marksman, Anti-Tank Rifle, and Light Mortar teams, and a Polish Vickers E 6 ton Tank, all from Warlord Games. All are 28mm or 1/56 scale with the foot figures cast in metal and the Vickers 6-ton cast in resin. The armoured car is actually a 1/48 scale plastic model of a Soviet FAI-M light armoured car by Ace Models, a company out of Kyiv, that I picked up from a local hobby store. I painted it in Polish camouflage to stand in as a proxy for a Samochód pancerny wz. 34 light armoured car. As with the Polish Army miniatures I had already done, these were painted using Vallejo acrylics and then treated with Army Painter Strong Tone Quick Shade.

Polish armoured car and Vickers E 6-ton tank



Polish Army Mediuim Mortar Team


Polish Army Marksman, Anti-Tank, and Light Mortar Teams. The bases for the prone anti-tank rifleman, and the light mortar are cut from recycled plastic gift cards.



Polish 10th Motorized Brigade Squad consisting of a squad leader in the unit's distinctive black leather jackets, a BAR gunner, and eight riflemen. When the brigade was formed, the men were equipped with WW1 vintage German and Austro-Hungarian helmets.




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