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Title: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 25, 2019, 10:21:54 PM
Last year I played a few scenarios set in Heraklion in 1941 featuring the Germans fighting the Cretans inside the city - here’s a few photos.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Redmist1122 on January 25, 2019, 10:48:17 PM
Very cool!  Some of the pics look like they were in the latest copy of WSS #100.  They have a whole spread about the FJs.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: gamer Mac on January 26, 2019, 12:21:38 AM
Great set up :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Marine0846 on January 26, 2019, 03:02:05 AM
Love the terrain.
So well done.
Can we see more?
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Hang Tuah on January 26, 2019, 04:50:08 AM
Those look very cool. What make are the gendarmes?
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 26, 2019, 12:02:30 PM
Those look very cool. What make are the gendarmes?

Thanks! The gendarmes are conversions, mostly Woodbine ww1 Ottoman Turks (plus a few Footsore BUF And Tiger Miniatures WW1 Greeks). I swapped the heads for Woodbine French with kepis and green stuffed some boots.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 26, 2019, 12:07:52 PM
Very cool!  Some of the pics look like they were in the latest copy of WSS #100.  They have a whole spread about the FJs.

Thanks! Yes, the photos are some of my iPhone shots from that WSS photo session.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Agis on January 26, 2019, 01:25:56 PM
Great conversion, painting and pics!  :o 8)
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Redmist1122 on January 26, 2019, 06:14:42 PM
Very cool conversions!
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: flatpack on January 27, 2019, 08:35:18 AM
Very well done.
The figures and the scenery are brilliant.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: argsilverson on January 27, 2019, 09:52:37 AM
Congratulations! Nice idea and extremely well execution. Well done!
for an added variety you could use a couple of Tiger miniatures Greek balkan wars infantry with italian helmets and the gorgon studios Greek partisans which has a couple of miniatures with cretan traditional breeches.
https://gorgon-studios.myshopify.com/collections/world-war-ii-partisans

By the way: all gendarmes should have one chevron! Their NCOs should have 2 or 3.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 27, 2019, 04:26:08 PM
Congratulations! Nice idea and extremely well execution. Well done!
for an added variety you could use a couple of Tiger miniatures Greek balkan wars infantry with italian helmets and the gorgon studios Greek partisans which has a couple of miniatures with cretan traditional breeches.
https://gorgon-studios.myshopify.com/collections/world-war-ii-partisans

By the way: all gendarmes should have one chevron! Their NCOs should have 2 or 3.

Thank you! That’s helpful to know about the gendarmes. I actually painted chevrons on all of them originally, then got rid of them because I thought it was wrong...should have checked here first!

I have some Tiger Greeks and spare helmets but haven’t done any conversions yet. The Gorgon Cretans are already in the collection though😁.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: voltan on January 27, 2019, 04:33:55 PM
This is an excellent project and being honest an aspect of the campaign I'd never even thought about.
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Post by: wrgmr1 on January 27, 2019, 06:24:49 PM
Excellent brushwork and terrain! Thanks for posting.
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Post by: FreakyFenton on January 27, 2019, 07:01:35 PM
Inspirational work! Leaves one wanting to go about building terrain and converting!  :o
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: argsilverson on January 27, 2019, 09:27:58 PM
I just remembered that there is a small range of ww2 Greek infantry by Burn's miniatures
https://www.templarwargames.co.uk/page/28mm-figures-28mm-ww2-greeks-burns-miniatures-
alas the majority is with greatcoat, which means that they not suitable for Crete, since the weather was very hot for greatcoats. Only one officer from the command pack has not the greatcoat.

Italian helmets can be found from warlord games but probably you already know that.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 27, 2019, 09:43:16 PM
Thank you. I looked at the Burns Miniatures a couple of years ago ‘in the lead’ and just thought they were too slender to
mix with the rest of our group’s collection (chunkier sculpts like Artizan, Crusader, Gorgon and Foundry.) They remain the only Greek ww2 range out there though.

Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Lord Raglan on January 27, 2019, 09:51:46 PM
Great looking minis and terrain, captures the feel of Crete perfectly.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: moiterei_1984 on January 28, 2019, 07:47:54 PM
Stunning! Enjoyed the article a lot btw.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: James Morris on January 30, 2019, 08:27:18 PM
Stunning! Enjoyed the article a lot btw.

Thanks! We’re playing the Chania Gate scenario again next week - not done it with Chain of Command yet so should be an interesting game.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: argsilverson on January 30, 2019, 11:28:23 PM
Thanks! We’re playing the Chania Gate scenario again next week - not done it with Chain of Command yet so should be an interesting game.

Keep us informed. Expecting photos and AAR to see your beautiful figures and terrain.
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: traveller on January 31, 2019, 06:14:41 AM
Excellent work!

Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Jeff965 on January 31, 2019, 04:11:26 PM
Beautiful looking game and smashing photography, more please :)
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Truscott Trotter on January 31, 2019, 11:15:12 PM
Keep us informed. Expecting photos and AAR to see your beautiful figures and terrain.

I agree more please!  lol
Title: Re: Street fighting in Crete, May 1941
Post by: Plutarch64 on February 05, 2019, 12:06:28 AM
Lovely work from all aspects