Casualties of War

[former user]

how do we say? - beat me to that 
every decomposing cadaver blows up and stretches the limbs like that - that's why people who do not bury ot burn their dead tie or wrap them up

I've seen some pretty weird poses in Sudan from prehistoric graves where the dead were buried squatted in hollow pits

[Plynkes]

Wayswatcher's cows look pretty realistic to me...

Accounts of the Normandy campaign often mention that the image that stuck in the minds of many veterans was that of all the dead cattle. They were everywhere, thousands of them.

[Christian]

And I think this is where it gets a little too real.

Nicely painted, though!

[former user]

war is a bitch....
we game wargames, we get the whole package 

[Gunbird]

Just copied them from memory, summers working in the fields and passing the cadavers bins with the lids flopped open as the animals expanded in the heat. With big herbivores this happens surprisingly fast, though in this case  I've not included the fluids other then blood and the cows look like they came straight from a village fair, being clean and all that 

They are from AB miniatures, 20mm, 3 per pack

[General]

UDDERly realistic...

[Baldrick]

Impressive.  They do add the right touch to a Normandy game.

[Bako]

Quite well aware of what happens to the body after it dies. They just seemed a bit more "fresher" to me.

UDDERly realistic...

*slap* 

[former user]

well, painting miniatures is a compromise right?

greenish brownish blobs in the shape of a cow would have looked a bit....
after all, wargaming is not CSI   

and please, let's not elaborate further on taphonomy
after all, many of us will still attend christmas dinner invitations 

the cows look realistic enough to me to make me sad about animals being killed in wars...
what else can be added to a battlefield?

[dadlamassu]

My father, who fought through the war,  but did not often speak about it.   When he did he said that his recurring memories included the dead animals in the Normandy fields - cows, sheep, pigs, dogs and a few cats then the Falaise Salient where he saw dead German draught horses by the thousand as well as the farm animals and domestic horses.

Later on he spoke about the civilian corpses (particularly women and children) that littered bombed out towns, villages and farms.

Once he got into Germany proper the German civilian deaths had a different effect after he was one of the first to arrive in Belsen.

And the most vivid memory? 

The smell of death.  Particularly burnt human flesh. 

[Sangennaru]

that reminds me of a song (but not "a pirate i was meant to be", this time)


(sorry for the OT)


Jack