Mexican troops for ACW2 New Pictures

[leadfool]

Skrapwelder,
My good Stalinist communist figures will crush you Trotskyites.. ., I am fielding the Central California Communist Party (CCCP).   Nicknamed the CalRed.  Our leaders are code named Zinfindel, Merlot, and Port.

BTW those figures look like they will work great.

[commissarmoody]

And they would face a lot of oppations from whats left of these guys, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War
Pro-Catholic Revolutionary that escaped over the border in around 1930

[area23]

Great ideas.

When I visited Frida Kahlo's house in the late nineties I was amazed there was this sketch of a portrait of Joseph Stalin prominently in her painting studio...

[Skrapwelder]

What I've done while waiting for my troops to show up in the mail. It gives a good likeness .I'm not 100% happy with the proportions but it will serve. I need to make some grillwork for the headlights and do a little work on the suspension and then I'll be ready to paint it.

The next vehicle I'll be doing will be a motorcycle and sidecar for Frida.

[Doc Twilight]

What I've done while waiting for my troops to show up in the mail. It gives a good likeness .I'm not 100% happy with the proportions but it will serve. I need to make some grillwork for the headlights and do a little work on the suspension and then I'll be ready to paint it.

The next vehicle I'll be doing will be a motorcycle and sidecar for Frida.

Very nice indeed, Skrap. Any thoughts on a color scheme yet?

-Doc

[Skrapwelder]

Thanks, I'm thinking  panzer grey with prominent Forth International symbolism. A white Hammer and sickle with a numeral 4 overlaid in a red field.

[Doc Twilight]

Sounds cool. I look forward to seeing it.

-Doc

[Calimero]

That's a nice looking little tankette already

[carlos marighela]

When I visited Frida Kahlo's house in the late nineties I was amazed there was this sketch of a portrait of Joseph Stalin prominently in her painting studio...

I'm not. Remarkably fluid in her political allegiances, Ms Kahlo. Still I enjoyed the joint exhibition they staged of her work in the Moneda cultural centre last year. Santiago is a dull city for the most part and it killed a Monday morning when just about every other Museum is closed.

[huevans]

Allright, you lot! If we're doing artistic icons with a Mexican Interwar connection, I want someone to sculpt a figure of Hugh Firmin to bravely lead any izquierdistas that I paint. (His brother, Geoffrey is not really that useful, is he?)

Y oyen, senores y senoritas, miren a esto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_and_the_Glory

[leadfool]

Any Progress??

[Skrapwelder]

Got my first two squads plus some support painted,


Group shot


Officers


Sergeants


Two Light Machine gun teams


One of the two squads

All figures are Empress Spanish Civil War. Next up: Converting Polish early war lancers into Mexican cavalry.

[Mancha]

Any motorcycle progress?

[Ray Rivers]

Ahhh... yummy!   

Nice looking army forming here.

Can't wait to see the lancers and the painted tankette.

[Doc Twilight]

Got my first two squads plus some support painted,


Group shot


Officers


Sergeants


Two Light Machine gun teams


One of the two squads

All figures are Empress Spanish Civil War. Next up: Converting Polish early war lancers into Mexican cavalry.

Beautiful work. Just beautiful:)

-Doc