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Title: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 05 August 2014, 03:14:27 PM
Figures for my project "Defence of Barnaul".

Detachment railwayman-Red Guards:

(http://s017.radikal.ru/i417/1408/c2/de65c91133a6.jpg)

(http://s14.radikal.ru/i187/1408/c0/7f6c9e80b9be.jpg)

(http://i076.radikal.ru/1408/b2/b25a1d2cbe4f.jpg)

(http://s55.radikal.ru/i147/1408/35/b2be399ef299.jpg)

(http://s018.radikal.ru/i520/1408/df/8821e67747c5.jpg)

More photos here:

http://siberia-miniatures.ru/forum/showthread.php?tid=102&fid=22&block=0
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Turbo-Ben on 05 August 2014, 03:55:03 PM
They look great!
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: pocoloco on 05 August 2014, 04:13:58 PM
Fine looking unit!

What rules will you be using?
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 05 August 2014, 04:27:48 PM
Thanks guys!

I plan to use the adapted rules "Red Actions!".

http://perfectcaptain.50megs.com/redactions.html
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: marianas_gamer on 05 August 2014, 08:52:07 PM
Really really like these  :-* :-* :-* :-*
LB
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Mr. Peabody on 05 August 2014, 09:11:33 PM
Yes, they look very natural and the colours are so appealing.  :-* :-*
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: juergen c. olk on 05 August 2014, 09:23:47 PM
Perfect look to the un it. But can they fight.?
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Golgotha on 05 August 2014, 09:33:08 PM
May they crush the bourgeois scum - railway workers of the World unite. Fantastic stuff and the flavourful Red Actions will no doubt serve them well. By the way what does their banner say?
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 06 August 2014, 02:46:07 AM
I plan to create a script of the game based on real events.
Red in the company had twice as much as oppose them - the Czechs and the volunteers of the units of the Siberian Government. In addition, the Red Guards fighting at a very convenient position - on a hill on the banks of rivers. But the Reds was a significant lack of ammunition, and the city behind their backs came a revolt (red managed to suppress and expel the remnants of the rebels out of the city).
Czechs and white troops had high quality, moreover - they used several pieces of artillery.
In reality - red were forced to leave the city.

The inscription on the banner reads:

1st Barnaul Red Guards company

Proletarians of all countries - unite!
From the workers' Red Guards originated the mighty Red Army.
We will die - but the win!
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Wirelizard on 06 August 2014, 07:26:48 AM
Those are excellent! I love the mix of pieces of uniforms and civilian clothing.

I really must get back to my RCW project and add more Red Guard and militia to my collection.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Atheling on 06 August 2014, 08:56:30 AM
Excellent painting, you've really captured the motley look of the (early?) Red Guard!

 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Darrell.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 06 August 2014, 09:58:31 AM
These figures are for the period is the start of a major Civil War in Russia - May 1918. Mutiny of the Czechoslovak Corps.

All military units of red, fought for Barnaul, were Red Guards, consisting of volunteer workers. These were mostly railroad, miners and sailors commercial river fleet.  Of having military experience was a small detachment of demobilized frontline soldiers and a company of Hungarian internationalists - former prisoners of war.
 
  Incidentally, the Bolsheviks often used local groups of volunteers-working to support the Red Army, forming such groups of Communist workers throughout the war.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Atheling on 06 August 2014, 10:59:11 AM
These figures are for the period is the start of a major Civil War in Russia - May 1918. Mutiny of the Czechoslovak Corps.

All military units of red, fought for Barnaul, were Red Guards, consisting of volunteer workers. These were mostly railroad, miners and sailors commercial river fleet.  Of having military experience was a small detachment of demobilized frontline soldiers and a company of Hungarian internationalists - former prisoners of war.
 
  Incidentally, the Bolsheviks often used local groups of volunteers-working to support the Red Army, forming such groups of Communist workers throughout the war.

Thanks Cuprum, you're a wealth of information and it's really great that you're a member of this forum  8).

Darrell.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 06 August 2014, 11:05:37 AM
Thank you.
I will be glad to be useful for the members of the forum LAF.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Atheling on 06 August 2014, 11:13:34 AM
Thank you.
I will be glad to be useful for the members of the forum LAF.

You're a credit to the forum mate  8)

Darrell.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Turbo-Ben on 06 August 2014, 12:03:35 PM
You did a lot of headswaps, didn't you Cuprum?

The models are from the 'partisans' and 'sailors' packs, right? But where's the guy in long coat from?
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Marine0846 on 06 August 2014, 03:39:41 PM
Love the look of the figures.
Thanks for the information about the flag.
Interesting writing on the flag.
'We will die'.. :'(
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 06 August 2014, 05:29:31 PM
You did a lot of headswaps, didn't you Cuprum?

The models are from the 'partisans' and 'sailors' packs, right? But where's the guy in long coat from?

I used a set of "partisans", "Sailors" and "Command group of sailors". I replaced a lot of heads.  I  did some items yourself (duffel bags, gun belt, etc.).

For this figure I made traveling cloak of "Milliput" + "Greenstuff". This way, I mean railway trackman.

(http://s017.radikal.ru/i441/1408/ad/670d3afad284.jpg)

(http://s010.radikal.ru/i312/1408/fc/e19efeaebae7.jpg)

(http://s019.radikal.ru/i631/1408/98/7f5b8ae5752f.jpg)

Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: Red Orc on 06 August 2014, 05:40:39 PM
They look great cuprum. I'm planning some Red Guard detachments myself (I prefer local militia units to the Red Army), and if mine look 1/4 as good as this in the end, I'll be happy.
Title: Re: Detachment railwayman-Red Guards
Post by: cuprum on 06 August 2014, 05:48:15 PM
I wish you good luck in your work on the figures. I hope you will please us your photos of Red Guards.  :)