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Title: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Helen on 11 November 2008, 01:42:09 AM

Hi Folks,

Lon has now photos for the above as seen below:

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/BG-SIEA002_sm.jpg)
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/BG-SIEA001_sm.jpg)

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 11 November 2008, 03:05:06 AM

Are the polar bears a famous unit or is it slang for something. Nice minis. 8)

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Helen on 11 November 2008, 04:01:40 AM

Quote from: twrchtrwyth on 11 November 2008, 03:05:06 AM

Are the polar bears a famous unit or is it slang for something. Nice minis. 8)

Please checkout this link, thankyou:

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/p_bears.htm

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Will Bailie on 11 November 2008, 04:45:37 AM

"Polar Bears" was the nickname for the American soldiers who were sent to Arkhangelsk in 1918, to intervene in the Russian Civil War.  The troops were primarily from the 339th Infantry, from Michigan.

It will be interesting to compare them with the HLBSCo troops.  Looks like these troops have Lewis guns, rather than the BAR that HLBS have.  However, like the HLBS, these soldiers appear (to my untutored eye) to be equipped with Springfield M1903 rifles.  The AEF Siberia (in Vladivostok) was equipped with Springfields, but the Polar Bear expedition (in Arkhangelsk) had Mogin-Nasants.

Of course, they will be suitable for any arctic or antarctic expeditions, competing with Bolsheviks for control of the Bering strait, looking for cultists in winter in Vermont, cutting off Al Capone's whiskey shipments from Saskatchewan into North Dakota in January, hunting German "weather stations" in Greenland...

I'm sure I'll be ordering some once they get to the webstore!

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Helen on 11 November 2008, 06:24:32 AM

Hi Will,

The Polar bears  are in the web-store:
http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BG-SIEA002&Category_Code=BGHMSIE&Product_Count=44
http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BG-SIEA001&Category_Code=BGHMSIE&Product_Count=43

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Will Bailie on 11 November 2008, 06:38:14 AM

Darnit, I didn't want to hear that.  I haven't painted my HLBS Yanks yet!

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: argsilverson on 11 November 2008, 10:11:32 AM

Very nice!

Need to start a new front!

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Tancread on 11 November 2008, 01:18:30 PM

Those really are good. I can think of a lot of uses for them. Thanks for the heads up!

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 11 November 2008, 01:33:54 PM

@Helen:Thanks for the link.

@Will:Thanks for the reply.

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Svennn on 11 November 2008, 01:39:51 PM

B*ll*x!!

Another set of must haves. Looks like my backburner HLBS project is coming out again.

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Hammers on 11 November 2008, 03:12:57 PM

Those are a bit bloody good, aren't they?

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Will Bailie on 11 November 2008, 11:18:26 PM

Just realised how fitting that these models became available today - the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Tulgas:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23410

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Schogun on 12 November 2008, 02:19:57 AM

What colors would one paint them?

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: tsar1701 on 12 November 2008, 08:46:21 AM

Great minis ! I'll put them on my Christmass letter  :D

Quote from: Schogun on 12 November 2008, 02:19:57 AM

What colors would one paint them?

There's an illustration in the Osprey MAA on the White Russian Armies. They're mostly in brown.

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Ignatieff on 12 November 2008, 10:05:22 PM

Oh Dear, more madness......these are super figures.

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Grimm on 12 November 2008, 10:08:15 PM

oh thetb is nice  :-*

Title: Re: Brigade Games American Polar Bears
Post by: Regulator on 17 November 2008, 05:56:24 PM

like'em  ;)