For my penultimate submission for this year's challenge I painted up some more troops for my 10th Polish Motorized Brigade, also known as 'The Black Brigade'.
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| 10th Polish Motorized Brigade |
Ten of the figures are from a
box of Warlord Games Polish Infantry Squad in Greatcoats that I bought
last July at Historicon. After I got back home I decided I would rather
have a fourth squad of Black Brigade motorized troops and did a bit of
conversion work, carving away the gas mask bag and replacing it with a
German style canister, and swapping out the heads that came with Polish
helmets for spare German ones. The M35 helmet doesn't have quite the
same profile as the M16 helmet, so I added 'ventilation horns'
characteristic of the earlier helmet.
The remaining 24 figures are 3D prints using an STL from MyMiniFactory
of Polish motorcycle troops wearing the black leather coats that gave
the formation the nickname of 'The Black Brigade'. I am generally
pleased with the look of the prints, but again there are a few niggling
errors - the bayonet looks more like a belt knife, being rather small
and mounted too high, the profile of the helmet is off at the back,
rising much like a Soviet helmet, and two of the figures have 'carrying
straps to nowhere', running over the shoulder, but with nothing
suspended from them like a haversack or gas mask canister.
All
the figures were mounted on 25mm round bases, and some fine sand was
added using PVA glue. They were then primed with Vallejo Black Surface
Primer using an airbrush. Painting was done using Vallejo acrylics as
follows: faces and hands - Flat Flesh; greatcoats and trousers - Green
Brown; haversacks and equipment straps - Green Grey; gas mask canister -
Luftwaffe Camo Green; helmets - Brown Violet; belts and ammo pouches -
Flat Earth; rifle stocks - Beige Brown; rifle slings - Mahogany Brown;
leather coats and metal weapons parts - German Grey; jackboots - Black,
bayonets - Gungrey. When all was done, the figures got a coat of Army
Painter Strong Tone Quick Shade.
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| Polish motorized infantry squad (front) |
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| Polish motorized infantry squad (side) |
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| Polish motorized infantry squad (back) |
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| Closeup of conversion work (gas mask canister) |
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| Closeup of conversion work (ventilation horns added to helmet) |
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| Polish motorcycle infantry Squad 1 (front) |
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| Polish motorcycle infantry Squad 1 (rear) |
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| Polish motorcycle infantry Squad 2 (front) |
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| Polish motorcycle infantry Squad 2 (side) |
Since getting these troops painted, I acquired another STL from the same designer
for motorcycles with sidecars and the field car similar to the Kromlech miniatures I
painted up last year, but I haven't got them printed yet. A project for
AHPC XVI?
Thanks for stopping by.
1 comment:
Good job on these Poles!
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