Over the past few years, I keep coming back to the German Revolution as a period and gaming project that particularly interests me. In my last submission in AHPC XI, I painted up some revolutionary sailors, and here we are again finishing off a few bits and bobs that I didn't get finished last year.
First up are some more revolutionary sailors, manning a nice model of a MG08. As with all the figures here, I removed their 'puddle' bases so that I could stick them directly onto cobblestone bases, a process that involved a file, knife, harsh language and sometimes blood.
Inspired by watching Babylon Berlin, I've added some Berlin Sicherheitspolizei cops (SiPos) this year. Although they came to be called the 'Green' police, due to the green uniforms they wore, my understanding is that they wore blue during the early post-WWI period, including during the 1919 Spartacist Uprising. I haven't been able to get a clear answer to when their uniforms changed, so if anybody happens to know, I'd appreciate being enlightened! The armed cops here, as well as the sailors, are from the lovely range of figures by Tsuba Miniatures, available here in Australia from Elite Miniatures. Directing the SiPos is the Inspektor, a hard-bitten veteran of the worst the streets of Berlin has to offer. He's a Copplestone figure I had lying around.
Of course, the elephant in the room is the Schupo Sonderwagen, seen lurking in the pics above. What a beast! Built by Daimler, this was one of the main armoured cars used by the Sicherheitspolizei in the early 1920s, although one example survived all the way up to 1945, its wreck featuring in some well-known photographs taken outside the Reichskanzlei after the Battle of Berlin. I do love these inter-war armoured cars.
Points:
7 x figures and one prone - 37.5
1 x crew-served weapon - 10
1 x vehicle - 20
Total - 67.5 points please Barks!
The Inspektor really looks the part, but the Sonderwagen is a little treat. I, too, love these period ACs. I'm going to round you up to 70 points in sympathy with your struggle against puddle bases.
Barks
