Author Topic: New Project: Hungarians (New stuff: sorozatvetö) (Read 6782 times)

Calimero · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2019, 06:23:48 PM »

Wasn't Tsuba Miniatures that was also supposed to do WW2 Hungarians?

Wyrmalla · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2019, 06:36:54 PM »

Did Tsuba even finish their Romanian range?

commissarmoody · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2019, 08:57:59 PM »

It doesnt look like they completed the range. But are still off to a good start. https://www.empressminiatures.com/romania-28-c.asp

FreakyFenton · « **Reply #18 on:** December 30, 2019, 01:51:28 AM »

I have Great Escape Summer and Winter Romanians, intending to convert the former to the latter and also have some for warmer biomes. The figures look rather nice, but the lack of vehicles is a bit meh. However you can always substitute with Warlord games models and Company B models.

I combined Great Escape Games Hungarians with the Warlord ones and converted the Warlord Hungarians with bits from their german kits to mix a few figures up and change their appearance at least vaguely by addition of scarves and such. Or changing a head from a flat cap one to a helmeted one.

If someone is interested I can take a picture to illustrate.

Olofeus · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2019, 06:46:58 AM »

Please do take pictures. Sounds interesting.

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #20 on:** December 30, 2019, 08:31:09 AM »

Always interested.

FreakyFenton · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2019, 08:34:08 PM »

What I find is, Great Escape Games Romanians are fairly chunky models that do mix well with Warlord Games ones as well as Empress ones at a glance.

The Great Escape Hungarians however look a bit thinner and some heads are miscast, perhaps due to old casts and so look a bit odd at times, nothing that can't be fixed by replacing a head though.

Seeing as the Hungarian army shared equipment with the German Heer you can at times use Warlord Games Germans and have them pass off as Hungarians by using a different colour or adding on details as for instance the cockade on some caps or feathers on for instance mountain troops.

WWPD used to have a series of articles focusing on conversion of regular German figures into Hungarian ones, sadly that one closed but you can find the odd piccy in the 'paintalltheminis' site they have now https://www.paintalltheminis.com/paint-all-the-minis-news/2019/5/12/wwii-hungarian-tanks-and-vehicles?fbclid=IwAR2GTUKJDRqi2-LaeWfUoTicEe_u1aIdn__Zgex9PN9Z38_VbmMIe2j2-O0.

The first picture for instance has a German winter forward observer used as Hungarian radioman, further down in the showcase you see the use of Winter Soviets and german tank commanders as stand in for Hungarian troops.

(Edit: My phone messed up the pictures, so I took new ones with my camera. They're a tad darker but still show what I mean.)

FreakyFenton · « **Reply #22 on:** December 30, 2019, 08:50:10 PM »

So anyway, if you want diversity you can work with them, seeing as they got nice summer uniforms. I'm curious how winter Hungarians from them will look. The cavalry kickstarter looks nice thus far.

The Greast Escape Games Romanias I recommend without hesitation.

The Hungarians fitting fairly well, do seem smaller at times but usually work out okay in a mix of figures.

I also added a few German Heer miniatures that can be substituted for Hungarian tank hunters. The Fortress Budapest book of Warlord has some nice pictures in it that shows a few of the miniatures from wwpd.

Olofeus · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2020, 03:39:46 PM »

Really nice looking troops.

I just painted the rest of my Hungarians. Still waiting for the postman to bring me more.

Shahbahraz · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2020, 12:03:41 AM »

Those look really good, well done.

FreakyFenton · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2020, 07:15:52 PM »

The camo cloaks are brilliant!

Redmist1122 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 05, 2020, 07:47:19 PM »

Nice color variation and mix with the different uniform mixes.

cahrn · « **Reply #27 on:** January 07, 2020, 06:53:44 PM »

Nice looking force, Olofeus. I've always liked the Hungarian quilted winter suits and camouflage.

Quote from: FreakyFenton on December 30, 2019, 08:50:10 PM

The Greast Escape Games Romanias I recommend without hesitation.

I'm currently working on a platoon of Romanian infantry using the Great Escape Games summer dress Romanians as the starting point. I may have got a bad batch but mine required quite a bit of work to get them to an acceptable condition for painting.

fitterpete · « **Reply #28 on:** January 08, 2020, 03:47:50 AM »

Great project and nice painting! What paints did you use for the base uniform color?
Pete

Olofeus · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2020, 04:42:28 AM »

Thank you all for the nice comments.

My base uniform color is Vallejo English uniform mixed with Vallejo yellow green 50/50.

I used yellow green as it is for padded winter jackets.

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