Lead Adventure Forum
Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: TacticalPainter on August 19, 2020, 01:32:05 AM
-
I've been looking to add to my Eureka 20mm Australians to use not only as Aussies but also as British for Burma. Eureka do Australians in slouch hats (bush hats) and steel helmets and I've wanted to add more figures in helmets, so I was really pleased when AB produced a range of British in tropical uniforms suitable for the mediterranean and for the Far East.
As always these are lovely figures.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/P1s5hy.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poP1s5hyj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/aaNUVc.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnaaNUVcj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/ahiyRQ.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmahiyRQj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/nrpxg8.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/ponrpxg8j)
The figures are not a perfect match for the Eureka figures who suffer from large heads and stockier proportions. It's not a deal breaker but there is a noticeable difference when you compare them side by side.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/HnFHNC.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnHnFHNCj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/IDmgLK.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnIDmgLKj)
-
Interesting. I've just started reading Burma 1941-43 which is Mostly the GOC's despatches . There were initially only 2 battalions of Brits in Burma as well as the Burma Rifles and he did not have a high opinion of the BRs. Only up to the fall of Rangoon at this stage but interesting from that higher level perspective.
-
Interesting. I've just started reading Burma 1941-43 which is Mostly the GOC's despatches . There were initially only 2 battalions of Brits in Burma as well as the Burma Rifles and he did not have a high opinion of the BRs. Only up to the fall of Rangoon at this stage but interesting from that higher level perspective.
The figures I posted earlier are for later in the war. I have also painted up some of the AB western desert figures to use for earlier in the war and they would be suitable for everywhere from Burma to Singapore and as Australians early on in PNG.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/tyGOpa.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pntyGOpaj)
I've also painted up some of the EWM Brits in topees. From my reading the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Burma in 1942 were very poorly equipped. No steel helmets and only a small issues of bren guns, the remaining LMGs being Lewis guns. It seems the army in the Far East was very much the poor cousin when it came to new equipment. There is some evidence that British units in Malaya, like the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, were similarly equipped and in topees. There are photographs of them training for combat wearing them in December 1941 however it's less clear if they had been issued steel helmets for combat by the time the Japanese invaded.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/31gfPA.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po31gfPAj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/gOziO7.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmgOziO7j)
-
Here's a picture of the Argylls training in Malaya in December 1941.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/rtrh13.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmrtrh13j)
-
Lovely stuff!
I’m torn at the moment - I want to use these for both Italy and Burma but need to decide where to focus first.
-
Nice miniatures! What colour did you use for tropical uniforms?
-
Nice miniatures! What colour did you use for tropical uniforms?
Thanks. All Vallejo. The base is Russian Uniform. Main highlights Grey Green and then final highlights with a mix of Grey Green and Dark Sand.
-
Perhaps the Eureka figures are intended to represent the FORCteenth Army?
I'll get me coat.....
-
Absolutely superb!
-
Fantastic work! I think we'll always be spoiled by AB figures, as there are very few ranges that match up side-by-side in quality.
I really like your EWM early Brits however. Very distinctive look and different to the general WW2 Tommie! :)
-
Splendid work. I have a particular interest in the Burma campaigns, so it's always great to see threads like this