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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: Phil Robinson on March 08, 2024, 02:05:52 PM

Title: German Musician
Post by: Phil Robinson on March 08, 2024, 02:05:52 PM
An old Renegade Miniatures German converted to a musician with the a addition of Milliput swallows nests and bugle cord. The bugle is from the bits box, I can't recall who made it.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioDG7B5DR9nWTcmmmTRlEGIraUv-2aBQ7ANmAogUqt_jj1x6O4NeI7Bh1csZweBg_LV_8EIac2uiERaWp1IMiLQI3dTt3I5hdyY56ueo35r92IR0XNlkXitPztXKXXsuPW8wEXzf4BhxlZlw0NOcFSB9Dwz6P5PBCds0PBcbK0kJoWRs5cd7dM_ukojztg)
Title: Re: German Muscian
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on March 08, 2024, 03:57:24 PM
A splendid Hun and a certain target in our next game!
Title: Re: German Muscian
Post by: Will Bailie on March 08, 2024, 04:36:55 PM
Fantastic! 
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: traveller on March 08, 2024, 08:35:57 PM
Very nice! Great job!
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: marianas_gamer on March 08, 2024, 11:13:13 PM
Great conversion and nicely painted!
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: Metternich on March 29, 2024, 07:44:34 PM
Very, very well done.  One of the Ospreys shows two battalion musicians - who had been trained as stormtroopers - attacking a British tank with a grenade bundle.
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: vodkafan on March 30, 2024, 01:11:23 PM
Quote from: Metternich on March 29, 2024, 07:44:34 PM
Very, very well done.  One of the Ospreys shows two battalion musicians - who had been trained as stormtroopers - attacking a British tank with a grenade bundle.

If that doesn't work he can deafen the driver with bugle blasts through the vision slits!  lol
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: monk2002uk on March 31, 2024, 09:21:01 AM
Quote from: Metternich on March 29, 2024, 07:44:34 PM
Very, very well done.  One of the Ospreys shows two battalion musicians - who had been trained as stormtroopers - attacking a British tank with a grenade bundle.
Sturmtruppen -stormtroopers - was a generic term for assault troops. It was often used to describe British and French infantry as well. The training is the key point, which you have highlighted rightly. I don't know of any examples where specialist stormtroopers in the German army, such as Sturmbataillon Rohr, included musicians operating in that role. That doesn't mean it did not happen. More likely I suspect, musicians in a non-specialist infantry unit received training in Stosstaktiken - shock tactics - including training in Nähkampfmittel - close quarters combat with the likes of the grenade bundles.

Robert
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: Sparrow on April 06, 2024, 05:46:14 AM
What a brilliant idea!
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: Metternich on April 12, 2024, 04:26:52 PM
Robert, per the account your surmise about the two musicians is exactly what did happen.  They weren't part of a Stormtrooper unit, but had received the training and utilized it to mount the bundle charge attack on the tank. From Osprey's Campaign 187, The Battle of Cambrai,  "The Crippling of Bandit II" by Peter Dennis:

  https://www.ospreypublishing.com/media/_osprey-blog-legacy/Tank_1_wallpaper.A_1440x900.jpg
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: monk2002uk on April 13, 2024, 03:54:22 PM
Ah, thank you for that update. Much appreciated, Metternich.

Robert
Title: Re: German Musician
Post by: fred on April 13, 2024, 04:16:49 PM
A great figure!