Hello everyone, and what a great pleasure it is to be back in your company for the Challenge! Thank you Curt and Minions for making this highlight of the hobby year possible.
One of my goals for the year is to paint a Romanian army for WWII, using the figures from Great Escape Games. With very few changes, I'll be able to use this for Battle Group, Bolt Action and Chain of Command, and against Soviets from 1941-1944, and Hungarians or Germans from August 1944 until the end of the war. Not the most visually exciting army, but I've tried to liven them up by placing them in early winter with snow bases to contrast with the Fifty Shades of Mud colour of their uniforms. I've gone for the look of snow when it's still melting a bit, and after years of mockery over failed attempts to make realistic-looking snow, I'm feeling good about this. I anxiously await 'Miss Smilla' Curt's judgement.
During the Battle of Stalingrad, while German troops were being constantly sucked into the fight to take the city, their flanks were held largely by Romanian, Hungarian and Italian troops. When the Soviets launched Operation Uranus in November 1942, the Romanians were rapidly overrun, lacking the artillery and armour necessary to hold a major Soviet offensive. As a result, I think we can consider the ill-equipped troops left unsupported by their German allies as doomed, and worthy of claiming Caprica on the Quadrant map. Really, with Operation Uranus, I should be claiming two planets - but is Uranus a planet anymore? I lose track.
Nice and cold looking soldiers there, well done!
ReplyDeleteVery nice mate - great to see these posted already after watching you base them yesterday. Looking forward to seeing you field them on the table!
ReplyDeleteWell done. Gotta love the minor nation theme. I’ve a box of winter Italians I hope to start in the challenge.
ReplyDeleteBruceR
Nice to see the less usual stuff
ReplyDeleteThat is some great basing indeed, good starter for the Challenge!
ReplyDeleteAlways great to see some of the lesser represented armies of WW2. They look fantastic for your chosen theatre, cold and thoroughly miserable.
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done!
ReplyDeleteExcellent basing.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see some WW2 Romanians, they look great!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Super wintry bases and nice brushwork- good luck for Challenge 12
ReplyDeleteMaking good looking snow is hard, but you have done it well!
ReplyDeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteI’m new to the miniatures world, but I’m no stranger to snow! Your snow looks spot on!
ReplyDeleteI think they are awesome,Dux! Muddy, cold, and that looks exactly like that vile slushy stuff that makes your socks soggy and feet blocks of ice. You nailed it sir! 👏 ;)
ReplyDeleteGood start, Dux! :)
ReplyDeleteI do like your fifty shades of mud.
ReplyDeleteThanks all!
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