I finished what I had for my BEF and looked around and found some desert Italians. I have a rather large set of DAK and Free French. The French have a number of indigenous troops and I figured I would expand into Italians.
These are Empress miniatures and are likely actually for the interwar years. I’ll likely use them to battle my French. Hard to resist the pith style helmet. The Empress figures are excellent, some flash on faces, which can be hard to deal with and not maim the figure in the process. Basic riflemen and an NCO in a hand signal pose. Some have googles with one rifleman trying to kneel and fire while wearing them .
Pretty basic paint work. Uniform, helmet,webbing, rifle, and boots. Washed, highlighted and based
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| The group |
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| The loaders machine gunner is in the next batch. |
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| NCO giving hand signals to the section. |
Fun figures to paint and play with. I hope to have a few more different models done and the other 10 of these Italians
Points.
10 28mm @ 5. = 50 points.
Race to the finish.
Bruce
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Nice 'eye-ties' Bruce. I quite like the colonial/early war Italians too. Classy chaps with a refined palette and appreciation of fine art. Not like those brutish black shirted chaps who are best kept at arms length.
You've done a great job on these lovely sculpts despite the limited colours (yet not complained about it like some we know eh Millsy?) - simple or not its very effective. Best of luck squeaking a few more before the Challenge closes!
- Paul
nice paintwork and inter war to boot.
ReplyDeleteThey look good, Bruce! Different shades of brown here and there, wash them with brown and couple of highlights later they are done? Unless all the browns start to look the same and it takes ages to make them better again. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat looking painting
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