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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Dalauppror on 08 August 2012, 06:11:08 AM
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Hi
Just wanted to tell you that I just posted some pictures of my friend Björns commission of Swedish Interwar 28mm Infantry 1910-1939 at my blog: link (http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/2012/08/swedish-interwar-28mm-infantry.html)
and a first picture here, more at my blog: link (http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/2012/08/swedish-interwar-28mm-infantry.html)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/dalauppror/Diverse/ELSK/Swedish_Soldiers_03.jpg)
Best regards Michael
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We will use them for "A Very British Civil War" but in a Swedish setting.
They would work for war in finland 1917-18 and maybe even in the baltic during the same time as there was quite many Swedish volonteers that fought agaiont the reds.
even work for some whatif erarly war ww2 gaming in Finland, Norway, Demnark or even Sweden against invaiding Germans…but maybe even Britts and French as there was plans by them to invade Sweden to secure the northern sweden and the to germany vitale ore production.
I just updated my blog with pictures of Swedes in the tricorne hat… Dalauppror (http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/2012/08/swedish-interwar-28mm-infantry-3.html)
and here are some in helmets
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/dalauppror/Diverse/ELSK/Swedish_soldiers__10.jpg)
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I love the tricornes, suitably ridiculous! Very swedish! ;)
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Unusual subject and really nicely executed.
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It's certainly an interesting set of figures. Are these going to go general release at any stage soon?
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I'm just talking with a few mouldmakers. I hope they will be made available soon.
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I have a few vehicles for a 1939 Swedish army unit.
StrvN41 (based on a licensbuilt Panzer 38(t))
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/LAC(Swe)/OpenHouse/StrvN41_2.jpg)
Three Volvo 122 "Roundnose" (converted from Italieri 1/48 Opel Blitz kit)
(http://www.hassleholmsmuseum.se/images/fordon/standard_4b.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/LAC(Swe)/OpenHouse/Runddnos_conversionLV122.jpg)
A couple of Bofors 37mm AT guns
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/LAC(Swe)/OpenHouse/Bofors37mm.jpg)
And a Stridsvagn m/21-29 (Sweden manufactured LK II)
(http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/k57leichterkampfwagenII.jpg)
All still boxed away ATM, I am sad to say.
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I have now posted some pictures at the Officers and a LMG men at my blog (http://www.dalauppror.blogspot.se/2012/08/swedish-interwar-28mm-infantry-officers.html):
My friend Björn that have commissioned these minis have started up a blog of him own "Ådalen Miniatures" (http://www.adalenminiatures.blogspot.se/) for this enterprice, please make him avisit:)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/dalauppror/Diverse/ELSK/rubrik.jpg)
Here are some men with Tricirnes:
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/dalauppror/Diverse/ELSK/Swedish_soldiers__12.jpg)
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Thanks for the heads up on these. Need to get a bunch them for some IW action in the Eastern neighbour (Österland ;) ).
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I'm all in favour of anything for an alternative/earlier WW2 and these look excellent. :D
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Are these available for purchase yet?
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Great looking figures, but what about uniform colour ?
Was it a greyish-brown pre WW2 ?
or had a greyish shade been introduced ?
John.
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Here´s info (in Swedish) about the colours of the Swedish 20th century uniform colours. There are helpful pics for those not fluent enough in Swedish or if Google translate makes it all too gibberish to understand.
http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/uniformer_armen_19.htm
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Hi
Sorry as far as I know they arn´t available yet, I think Björn that had them made have problem with the caster:(
I´m sure he updates hes blog as soon as they are ready for sale.
http://adalenminiatures.blogspot.se/
Best regards Michael
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StrvN41 (based on a licensbuilt Panzer 38(t))
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/LAC(Swe)/OpenHouse/StrvN41_2.jpg)
Wow, was it really that small? It almost looks like a 20mm tank was fitted to a 28mm figure.
I'm not ragging your model (I know Hammers is on the ball!), this is a legitimate question about the size of the tank!
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Here's it's cousin in Callao, Peru and yes they are quite dinky. Who made the 28mm version?
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I'd say Hammers's commander figure would be nicknamed 'Too Tall' or something, as he's slightly outsize... but yes, these were small machines.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2I_sh_ju0pI/ULH9Xmo5MdI/AAAAAAAAMEk/W_JZj2ZG-jw/s640/Panzer-38-BC-px800.jpg)
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'Lofty' Lundquist?
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Thanks for the uniform link Pocoloco.
John.
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No it was not that small, relatively. The tank is 1/56, I believe the mini is an Artizan sized 28mm, which means "relatively pretty big" in a wargames miniature context.
Good point. Well spotted. I shall exchange it for a smaller bereted miniature.
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'Lofty' Lundquist?
"Lången" is the rather unwitty nickname to people of hight. Långe Jan, Flaggstången, Stören, Lillen are others
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Here's it's cousin in Callao, Peru and yes they are quite dinky. Who made the 28mm version?
good question, I have forgotten. I think it may have been that British company specializing in early WWII...
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Good point. Well spotted. I shall exchange it for a smaller bereted miniature.
I don't think it's that big a deal... tanks are one size fits all, whereas people vary. While tank units often look for 'smaller' recruits, a few large people slip through. I once saw a guy in a Scimitar, who looked like he could stick his feet through the bottom and wear it.
:)
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Well, for the record, I'm five foot ten and I was probably about fifteen feet from the bugger. The arm just visible on the left was probably that of the seventeen year old Peruvian, who, with his girlfriend, was inescapable, as they only let you visit as part of a tour. Being Peruvian I'd guess he was anywhere between five foot four and and about five foot six, which seems to cover about 90% of the population. Not a teeny tank but not overwhelming either.
Incidentally, the camo pattern on the tank seems to tally pretty well with the couple of photos I've found of them during the 1941 invasion of Ecuador.
I'm guessing that Hammer's version is probably the old Chieftain miniatures version.
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Well, for the record, I'm five foot ten and I was probably about fifteen feet from the bugger. The arm just visible on the left was probably that of the seventeen year old Peruvian, who, with his girlfriend, was inescapable, as they only let you visit as part of a tour. Being Peruvian I'd guess he was anywhere between five foot four and and about five foot six, which seems to cover about 90% of the population. Not a teeny tank but not overwhelming either.
Incidentally, the camo pattern on the tank seems to tally pretty well with the couple of photos I've found of them during the 1941 invasion of Ecuador.
I'm guessing that Hammer's version is probably the old Chieftain miniatures version.
That's the one.
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Are these available for purchase yet?
I sorry I haven't answered your question earlier. The reason is that I didn't have a good answer.
But now all mastermoulds are done and the production molds on their way. I hope that they will be released before christmas.
I will post when I have more info.
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I sorry I haven't answered your question earlier. The reason is that I didn't have a good answer.
But now all mastermoulds are done and the production molds on their way. I hope that they will be released before christmas.
I will post when I have more info.
Thanks, I will stalk you from now on... 8)
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I sorry I haven't answered your question earlier. The reason is that I didn't have a good answer.
But now all mastermoulds are done and the production molds on their way. I hope that they will be released before christmas.
I will post when I have more info.
Excellent news.
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Fantastic news Bjorn!
Looking forward to getting some here in the States!
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Sorry for awaiking this Zombie post BUT...
I have got some info from Björn that have commission the Swedish Interwar 28mm Infantry 1910-1939.
He have got the first minis from the caster and it seems like the release of the minis to the public are closer then ever.
I plan to keep you updated and also run some pictures of minis Björn painted from the first casts at my blog (http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/search/label/Interwar)
Have a nice weekend.
Best regards Michael
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/dalauppror/Diverse/ELSK/dalenFrstaFigurenkopiera_resize1.jpg)
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Oh, really nice news!
I think I will get a set of them to use as foreing allies for my VBCW Edwardians :)
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they look very interesting and special. But only VBCW and other ficticious conflicts I guess?
Maybe something that happened before this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIdiZ44zzU
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they look bery unteresting and special. But only VBCW and other ficticious conflicts I guess?
I don't know, given some of the recent products and sacred texts of the 'historical' wargames industry, I would be inclined to regard everything as a fictitious conflict.
:D
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You could use them from 1910 until 1945 (more or less). During this time swedish troops was involved in two wars, first the finnish civil war and then the winterwar (ww2). But both wars was during the winter so these figures are dressed wrong. But maybe you could use them för the last month of the FSW (but I don't think that the swedes had swedish uniforms).
But they could be used for LN's mission in Saar 1935. Sweden send troops to Saar, but from what I understand they did not take part in any shooting. But you could use Tsuba's Freikorp germans as opponents and do some low level skirmishing. :-)
And there were some Swedish merceries in the Russian civil war, in Estland maybe? You could maybe use these figures for them.
I could see them being used in the Scottish part of the VBCW.
But we are going to use them for our own Swedish Civil War.
Here is a picture of the swedish volounters after the Finnish Civil War: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/SvBriHelsingfors.jpeg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/SvBriHelsingfors.jpeg)
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If you do a google image search with 'ruotsalainen prikaati' you can see few black and white images of the Swedish brigade that took part in the FCW.
Do you have plans for eg. machine gun team?
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Thanks pocoloco.
Yes, maybe. If there are an interest in the figures I will talk to the sculptor if he can do some more.
If he wants to do some I was thinking of making a machine gun team, a mortar team, a standard bearer, a bugler and maybe some sitting shooting/reloading with other helmets/hats.
But it would also be nice to get some dismounted cavalry from the life guard.
I suppose everything depends on one boring thing, money. :-)
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Then we got to hope that there's a big interest in these :-*
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Then we got to hope that there's a big interest in these :-*
I could only hope so. :)
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Good news!
I will definately buy these ;D
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A question for everyone. Would you be interested in buying pre-painted figures? I have good contact with a painter in my town. Would people be interested to buy painted figures instead of un-painted? Delivery would take two weeks longer and each figure would cost £5-7 more. Would anyone buy it? (the question is more about buying pre-painted than buying the figures)
Traveller: I haven't forgotten you! It has taken long time, but now I can see the light in the end of the tunnel. :-)
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Personally would not buy pre-painted as then I would need to get all my minis for the project painted by the same painter, better to dabble myself and splah some paint on minis at some point.
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when you see my paintwork you would suggest that I buy the service instead... but no - "übung macht den Meister!!" ;)
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would buy a platoon worth of theses :) would prefer unpainted as I prefer painting my own stuff.
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A question for everyone. Would you be interested in buying pre-painted figures? I have good contact with a painter in my town. Would people be interested to buy painted figures instead of un-painted? Delivery would take two weeks longer and each figure would cost £5-7 more. Would anyone buy it? (the question is more about buying pre-painted than buying the figures)
Traveller: I haven't forgotten you! It has taken long time, but now I can see the light in the end of the tunnel. :-)
No, not fot me. I like the miniatures though and can see myself ordering some in the near future.
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These seem to be a suitable basis for some 'what if' scenarios with these minis.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landsexpeditionen_1918
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landsfr%C3%A5gan
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These seem to be a suitable basis for some 'what if' scenarios with these minis.
perfect
now that there are miniatures available, all I need is to learn swedish ;)
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perfect
now that there are miniatures available, all I need is to learn swedish ;)
It would seem that I need to do the same.
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Here are a picture od one of the Swedish officers from Björns Interwar Swedish Infantry range, you can se some more painted samples at my blog. (http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/2013/05/painte-swedish-inter-war-infantry.html)
(http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx237/skarmytsling/DSC07326l.jpg)
Best regards Michael
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Looking good. Now, do they come with interchangeable heads?
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Now, do they come with interchangeable heads?
No. It is the same body that got three different heads.
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They look pretty cool.
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WOW! Love the Stridsvagn m/21-29.
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Latest news: I have talked to the molder and he says that he will be able to start posting figures in the end of next week. So I hope that we very soon will have more details of how to order them. We are going to sell them both as sets and singles.
WOW! Love the Stridsvagn m/21-29.
I like it too! I'm currently painting one. Sweden did just have 5 of them (and 5 more of the original m/21) so you could own the whole Swedish panzer force! :-)
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How many figures there will be in total?
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There are 15 different figures, you can se all of them here http://adalenfigures.blogspot.se/ 2 officers, 1 light machine gun and 12 riflemen.
But if there is an interest I will maybe get some more done.
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Very nice ;D
Oh, and yes, I want a whole set of them :)
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Can't wait to see them ready to buy...
What about dismounted cavalry?
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Dismounted cavalry is high on my wishlist. I'm thinking of maybe do a whole squad of them later on. if I do them I think of making them in the old m/1895 uniform (http://jacobjohansson.se/uniformer/m1895/k1/) with the m/1879 helmet (http://jacobjohansson.se/uniformer/hjalm-m1879-1900/) and breeches.
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can't wait for theses :)
what are the plans for future, beside the dismounted cavalry, are we going to get some Swedish militia to up against them.
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The dismounted figure plans sound just great. I too would be interested in a Homeguard type figure- civilian dress,armed with rifle and wearing a tricorne.
A squad of them would be fantastic!
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Militia in civil cloths and tricornes are a good idea. I will write it down on my list.
Next out is mortars, medium machine guns and a few important missing pieces for the first release (sitting poses and another light machine gun). I have just asked the sculptor if he want to do a few more figures.
After that (if money permits mind you): dismounted cavalry.
Here is a picture of the early Landstorm (Home guard) soldiers. This is the look of the ww1. But most Landstorm geezers would perhaps have had an older ammunition bag.
(http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/uu295/Nikator_photos/Adalen/Landstormtidig_zpsee7e51d5.jpg)
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Very interesting look.
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The dainty little tricorne is a romantic throwback uniform detail harking back to the army Carolus Rex. Even more impractical in 1910.
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Landstorm figures would be great.What a splendid photograph!
Any plans for Life Guard in ceremonial uniforms? I have some Holger Erikson ones but I don't think they would be compatible with the chaps you have comissioned.
Also I wondered about some high ranking officer / staff figures?
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Yes, Life Guards in cermonial uniforms are on the list. My plan was to make some from the Life guards on horse (K1). They would fit the bill both as dismounted cavalry and life guards in cermonial uniform (but not the big parad uniform, just the minor one). And a blog friend (Dalauppror, have you seen his blog?) was actually in that regiment when he was young. That's why I call him hästplågare (nice swedish word what can be translated as cavalryman).
By the way: Ådalen Miniatures webshop has just opened for business! http://adalen.historifigs.com/
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Just ordered 30 of the figures a minute ago,can't wait to see them... :D
I follow Dalauppror's excellent blog.
Looking forward already to the Life Guards too
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Excellent Trädgårdsmästarn!
Thanks alot for your support!
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By the way Bjorn I'm tempted to get a Dane or two designed.Any pointers about costs,designers etc.
thanks
Alan
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I have sent you a PM with some of my experience. (sorry, I seem to have made an mistake, I will send it again)
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Thanks-it was most interesting and useful.
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I have now posted part two of the painting guides on my blog: http://adalenfigures.blogspot.se/
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Just ordered some of your great looking Swedes!! Can't wait until they make it to American soil. Thanks
Count Winsky