Author Topic: BEF miniatures early war german elite troops (Read 6503 times)

majorsmith · « **on:** February 09, 2011, 04:45:44 PM »

early war german elite, all BEF miniatures

Gibby · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2011, 05:51:36 PM »

Amazing work!

That camo in particular is mind boggling!

majorsmith · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:16:45 PM »

Cheers mate

redzed · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:34:16 PM »

impressive

Blue in vt · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2011, 03:27:29 PM »

Yeah...these are SWEET...nice work!

Blue

Faber · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2011, 09:09:16 PM »

wonderful paintjob!

How did you reach that camo? It's perfect!

killshot · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2011, 01:18:27 PM »

Second call for the camo recipe!

carlos marighela · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2011, 01:53:15 PM »

Lovely painting. Slightly ironic euphemism in the title given the combat record of the SS in the early war period.

6milPhil · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2011, 12:50:04 AM »

Solid stuff... not sure they're elite though but hey ho!

Gibby · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2011, 09:32:24 AM »

Of course they're elite. Regardless of their combat record, at that point they were the elite of the German army. To say they're not because they did badly in combat is like saying the SAS isn't elite because of what happened in Bravo Two Zero.

joroas · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2011, 10:17:54 AM »

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Of course they're elite. Regardless of their combat record, at that point they were the elite of the German army

They were, technically, not part of the German army at all, but a separate entity with its own uniform, ranks and command structure.

As an aside, they are really well-painted, but some clearly show SS runes, which ought to be hidden in some way on this site.

majorsmith · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:53:43 PM »

Thanks guys, the SS runes are no more than squiggles so no law breaking, as such! I called them elite as I didn't want to mention SS, obviously that doesn't matter, I would class them as an elite service even at that early stage of the war, they were trained alot more harshly than regular army troops and were mechanised as well more so than regular troops, I know they committed atrocities and were more politically motivated than the regular army, but they are still elite

Galland · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2011, 04:42:55 PM »

Quote from: carlos marighela on February 11, 2011, 01:53:15 PM

Lovely painting. Slightly ironic euphemism in the title given the combat record of the SS in the early war period.

They did not do bad at all, on the contrary, they impressed the german high command on several occations. The issue is rather that they did well but with high casaulty rating.
In comparisment to many of their opponents at the given time, they had very good morale, solid training, good combat will, but also lacked in the automatic and support weaponry department. The issue was perhaps the overly aggressive tactics. This got to be regarded as common knowledge I suppose.

When it comes to the figures, they are very nicely painted, a great inspiration. You also managed to make the next order from me, to go to the BEF miniatures. I was sitting just earlier today and contemplating getting a few of their figures, now I am convinced hehe.

Anatoli · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2011, 04:53:28 PM »

From what I know the SS started out the war with poor equipment and ended up with the best stuff as the war progressed.

The painting is great btw and miniatures look really good.

SgtPerry · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2011, 06:23:11 PM »

The 1 and 2 ss infanterie regiments (LSAH / DR) had rather good results despite a high casualties rate. The 3 ss infanterie regiment (T) was really bad and they had several war crimes issues against belgian civilians and PoWs.

Nevertheless, great figures with a superb painting job.

Olivier

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