BEF miniatures early war german elite troops

[majorsmith]

early war german elite, all BEF miniatures

[Gibby]

Amazing work!  

That camo in particular is mind boggling!

[majorsmith]

Cheers mate

[redzed]

impressive

[Blue in vt]

 

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

Blue

[Faber]

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

[killshot]

   Second call for the camo recipe!

[carlos marighela]

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

[6milPhil]

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

[Gibby]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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