Gebirgsjäger

[tim in saskatoon]

A sample Gebirgsjäger from Brigade Games I painted up...



More to follow..

[carlos marighela]

Very nice.

[Captain Blood]

Very nice. I've always really liked these figures, but it took so long to finally release all the several GBJ packs shown as greens at various stages (and I mean like three or four years), that in the end I couldn't be bothered to keep hanging on for them, so gave up. As ww2 figures go though, these are just about my favourites.

Plus I like Where Eagles Dare 

[Calimero]

Really nice

[arktos]

Very nice my friend.
May i suggest, a lighter tone of the tunic shade and if you agree, another colour for the down lip maybe ''pink''.
Keep them coming, you may ''convince'' me buy them. 

[Calimero]

... another colour for the down lip maybe ''pink''...

I didn’t noticed it at first… he should go inside for a minute, his lips are turning blue in the cold

[tim in saskatoon]

Ah, that's what I get for posting pictures of figures that are 5-6x bigger than the actual figure!? Seriously, when I was painting that I could have sworn the only black I left was the open mouth... but now that you've mentioned it... and I looked again under a magnifying glass... yeah... I totally missed part of his lower lip!? It's fixed now, Thanks!

As for the colour of the jacket I have only two reference pictures. One is an earlier war Gerbirgsjäger what has a much lighter tan jacket, but it's of a completely different pattern (button up, no hood). In another volume there's a later war plate with a smock that's a little closer to what this chap is wearing, but it's darker and looks like more of a grey-brown. So I kind of split the difference... trying to make them more versatile. Others I was thinking do in a light grey ("lichen grey") - almost whitish... Perhaps the rest could be in a lighter khaki/tan.

These guys will probably see more action in Pulp Adventure games; garrisoning a secret base in the Antarctic... or racing against the players to discover the secrets of the Elder Thing city... or something like that... who knows what sort of kit the South Polar Gebirgsjäger Regiment would have had...?

[Calimero]

Did you use Nigel Thomas's "The German Army in World War II" (Osprey Publishing) as a reference? It has the two kind of jackets you describe in it. anyhow, I think that the jacket look good as it is.

[tim in saskatoon]

Did you use Nigel Thomas's "The German Army in World War II" (Osprey Publishing) as a reference? It has the two kind of jackets you describe in it. anyhow, I think that the jacket look good as it is.

Yep, that's the one!

[tim in saskatoon]

A few more...



One more batch of seven to go... probably finish those up tonight...

[Galman]

Nicely painted squad! 

[Calimero]

They all look really good

[Photographer]

Very nice altogether!

[tim in saskatoon]

Thank you, everyone, for your comments.

I finished up the last batch last night:



...and here's the whole lot together:



Now back to working on some Canadians!!