From PeterD: Badass Women of the Nordic Resistance (30 points)

You maybe noticing a theme to my 28mm posts this year...These are a set of 6 28mm female miniatures from Bad Squiddo, five from a WW2 Resistance kickstarter than I bought into.  Lovely figures, well researched, sculpted and cast.

First up, two Norwegians.  Anne Margrethe Bang had no formal nursing training beyond first aid, but served as a volunteer nurse to the defenders of Hegra fortress during a 25 day siege in 1940.   She lost several toes due to wet and cold conditions.  Captured and then released, she joined the Norwegian resistance.  Eva Klovstad joined the underground and from late1944 was leader of a 1,200 strong unit.  Both women survived the war and lived past 90.

Elsa checks out the scene while "fixing her sock", while Hedda makes sure that all it well with her dynamite.

Next two Danes.  Hedda Lundh was an explosive expert who ran an all female unit which included Elsa Marie Pade.  They relied on the Germans not bothering with a bunch of silly drunk girls (they were teenagers in 1940) while they planned sabotage attacks.  Else liked to use pulling her socks up as ruse.  When the group was captured, Hedda and her husband escaped to Sweden.  Later she became a journalist and teacher.  Else became a prisoner but after the war became a prominent electronic music pioneer.  Again they both lived past 90.

I like the pose on Vera, who is checking her compass to make sure that she's got her bearings straight.

The last pair are Vera Laska, A Czech and American photographer Toni Frissell.  Vera joined the underground in 1938 when she was 15, helping jews get out across borders.  She later sabotaged the V-2 program.  After the way she moved to America, got her PHd and became a college professor.  Toni Frissell was a well know fashion photographer who joined the Red Cross in 1941 and later worked for the War Department.  She took well known photos of the London Blitz and the Tuskegee Airmen.  Both survived the war and lived past 80.

For all of these figures I basically followed the colour schemes on the Bad Squiddo website where painted figures were shown.  I tried and bailed on Eva's argyle socks.  Doing the solid green for Toni convinced me never to do WW2 Americans.  Basing wise, Anne Margrethe was in a fortress and the two Danes appeared to be in an urban setting, so I tried representing a gravel ground scape for those three figures.  I'm not sure if I'll try it again. For the other three I used a more typical basing style.

6*28mm figures =30 points

I'll also claim a squirrel for the 5 figures (25 points) or Resistance fighters. 

 

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Sylvain: Again, the quality of your post is outstanding. You provide very lively information that add another layer of interest to your figurines. With your brushwork, you made each of these character unique and I hope you will find a way to integrate them in a game. Bravo!