From Curt: Spanish Civil War Falangist Infantry (52 Points)

As a nod to the upcoming inauguration of the new POTUS, here are ten fascists, er Falangists from the Spanish Civil War, wearing their distinctive blue shirts, tasseled gorrillo side caps and khaki jodhpurs all fighting hard to 'Make Spain Great Again'. 

The Falange was a Spanish right-wing political movement that rose to prominence during the Spanish Civil War. They were fervent supporters of General Francisco Franco in his bid to wrest control of Spain from it's Republican government.

The Falange was an organization built around strict authoritarian ideals, believing the nation state should have close control over all aspects of Spanish society. They were patriarchal monarchists who were anti-communist, anti-liberal, anti-intellectual and ant-capitalist (though they smartened up with this last one, quickly seeing the reality of competing in a world market). Yeah, these guys were real forward thinkers, but hey, they had sharp uniforms and won the war, so they couldn't have been all that bad, right? Riiight.

After the Civil War the Falange became a significant political force during the 1940s, extending later into the postwar period. Nonetheless, they  began to steadily loose influence as Spain had to adapt in order to relate to a increasingly secular, technological world. Upon Franco's death in 1975, the Falange broke up into a number of splinter groups, politically negligible, each bickering with the others to (get this) claim the name of 'Falange'.  The descendants of these d-bags can sometimes be seen giving Nazi salutes at their pathetic rallies and generally being useless wastes of skin. But I digress.

These 28mm figures are from the comprehensive Empress Miniatures range. Wonderful sculpts from the very talented Paul Hicks. The flag is (I think) from Flags of War.

These 10 figures should give me 50 points to add to both my general tally and to my Spanish Civil War side duel with Christopher, Nick and Phil. 

Alright boys, back to you!

MilesR: Just when I thought my Monday labors were over, Curt saunters in like he owns the place and drops this steaming pile of painting goodness on my virtual desk.  Sure the figures are wonderfully painted and based - really more like works of art than gaming pieces, but it is kind of last minute.  What to do, what to do?  The Angel on my right shoulders whispers that I should take the high road and forgive Curt his punctuality transgression and base upon the standard of 5 per fig plus an extra 2 for the superb flag, netting him a well deserved 52 points?  However the Devil on my left shoulder is bellowing that Mr C must be punished and pay some arbitrary points fine just like when I was in the Credit Card business.  Oh the pressure we minions undergo....

Wait a minute, I've got an clever, almost Canadian clever whimpyness- I can raise the points allowance for the flag to 5 but then viscously charge Curt 3 points for being late (as I define it).  Yes that will work and nobody will be the wiser - wait is this thing on?.....

Mr Campbell - a superb entry again that will net you a well deserved 52 points, let forget about the whole Angel/Devil thing shall we....

:)