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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: Helen on 29 May 2008, 03:20:48 AM
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Hi Folks,
I've added this new topic here for folks who are keen in painting their WW1 figures/equipment with some sort of uniform guide bases on artists or militaria collections.
It's not a complete list and if you have a link that would be assisting then can you please add yours.
Thankyou 8)
Kaiser's Bunker:
http://www.kaisersbunker.com/
German Colonial Uniforms:
http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/
Uniform Insignia:
http://www.forum.uniforminsignia.net/index.php?sid=a2791fe8881a4d02c9f7c7d1e9f49af8
Landships:
http://www.landships.freeservers.com/ww1figures.htm
Austro-Hungarian:
http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/index.htm
Great War Militaria:
http://www.greatwar.com/Scripts/default.asp
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Hi, Helen,
You've hit the main ones that I use. I've also found these ones to be quite helpful:
http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/index.htm
http://www.diggerhistory.info/
Although sometimes you need to dig a bit to find the particular bit of information you need!
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
http://www.greatwar.nl/
For the colour photos, it's important to note that the colours might not be true. Photos were often hand tinted, and photos from 90+ years ago may have faded, plus computer colour monitors can introduce distortions of their own! Nevertheless, they are a good start and I'm as happy using them as any other source.
The "different light" website has some neat stories on it as well - a good source to mine for inspiration for scenarios!
One more - less authentic, but based on considerable research:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/joyeuxnoel/
Cheers
Will
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Helen,
that helped me for the Colonies. Thank you Helen !
Björn
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A good one for the French:
http://grandeguerre1418.unblog.fr/tag/planches-duniformes-dandre-jouineau/ (http://grandeguerre1418.unblog.fr/tag/planches-duniformes-dandre-jouineau/)
For bigger versions of the plates click under each pick where it says: La planche en grande taille, cliquez ici !!!
Some more plates can be found by rooting around on the sidebar to the right.
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That German Colonial uniforms page is a must-have for Afrika gamers. I have had it bookmarked for years, Björn. Without it my Schutztruppe NCO fellow would have had a boring old tan-coloured slouch hat. Now he has a natty grey one with white piping. Much better for turning the heads of the young ladies of Dar Es Salaam.
I thought everybody knew about it. Great idea for a sticky, Helen. Now everyone will know about it.
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That German Colonial uniforms page is a must-have for Afrika gamers. I have had it bookmarked for years, Björn. Without it my Schutztruppe NCO fellow would have had a boring old tan-coloured slouch hat. Now he has a natty grey one with white piping. Much better for turning the heads of the young ladies of Dar Es Salaam.
I thought everybody knew about it. Great idea for a sticky, Helen. No everyone will know about it.
Thanks Poly and all who have thrown in more links. 8)
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thanks, all of them very useful!
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Check these ones, too:
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?act=SF&s=a89ac850d4a32dbf9b5cb814ba3670dd&f=23
and
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWI.html
not very much colour I am afraid, but might be useful
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some more:
http://home.scarlet.be/~tse02026/noframes.htm
I would like to comment something more:
www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk
already mentioned by Helen, has very useful links page. I would recommend to try the link
http://www.traditionsverband.de/
which has a lot of contemporary paintings which are helpful for painting minis etc etc.
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I just found this page this evening:
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/articles.php?cid=59&get=4
Nice set of colour photos, plus links to some articles as well.
By the way, isn't it annoying when you get different information from different sources? I've now found colour photos of Belgian soldiers with black leather equipment and brown leather equipment, and I don't know which is correct!
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http://www.altearmee.de/seitenwaffen.htm
Everything you ever wanted to know about bajonet knots and more. In fact everything about prussian/german uniforms from Freddy the great to Willi the not-.so-great
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Great links but I am having trouble working out what colour my South African artillery should be for East Africa. I now have 3 Foundry 13 pounders to paint up with another 2 to come as well as a small group of SA Cav & their dismounted versions. Even managed soem pith helmeted crews although i suspect they may be Boer War figs with WW1 guns.
Anyone have any links for colours of the guns (& vehicles)?
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Thanks that is what I need !!! :-*
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Here is a link to the WW2 version of the same site:
http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Vehicles.htm
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Hi Folks,
This link provides you with Grimm's guide in painting AEF uniforms:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=10202.0
Thanks to Grimm for the hard work.
Helen
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Hi Folks,
This link below is from Keith on painting Late War German uniforms:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=12793.msg147139#new
Thanks you Keith,
Helen
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I hate joining the party late! Looking at these links I see that I have painted many of my WWI figures incorrectly! Back to the painting table...
Thanks for sharing :)
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Hello tank girl,erm I recently bought som russians from Musketeer models,great figures were they a sort of kahki brown colour, did they fight any axsis other countries of the time & how many soldiers do you have. I`m slowly buliding a collection of early ww1 cI`m pleased with my painting. 8)
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Hi Muckypup. I'm Tank Girl's understudy. This may help:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Russians.jpg)
I have seen depictions that are much browner than this, but I don't think you can go very wrong painting them a faded light green.
Russian troops saw action fighting against all the major Central Powers countries: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.
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Great picture, love to get my details spot on, I thought I had seen russ v turkish ww1 is more intersting more you reserch thank u for prompt reply 8) save up for some turks, burns up some more money. i`m trying to get people away from BR v Ger .I do my own research briefly was it more trench w`fare or more open combat?
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Just found out a little more about its a easy `to Google` any way russian gernades were the same shape as german ones smaller though, russian morters were again mounted on a wheeled carrage scaled against soldiers not difficult to model `in action` all in a green paint scheme. I seem to be OK at scratch making stuff. Soon as I figure how to post pics I will.
I would imagin the russians would sparingly issued grenades. But perhaps the supply was ok, be interesting to find out more about Russ/Turk battles 8)
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I admit I'm a bit sketchy on the details myself, it is a much-overlooked campaign.
This page might start you off with an overview of what transpired:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Campaign)
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Grateful for first link Wiki seems mountain of info Phew soldiers really had it tough on thoughs campains seems more open warfare than trenches which was 1st question
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John Thorne's exhaustive research has made this site the most comprehensive source for Commonwealth field gear:
http://www.karkeeweb.com/index.html
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Landships has a new website.
http://www.landships.info/landships/index.html