Hello all,
So I’ve started a new project; a Dutch infantry platoon for Disposable Heroes in 28mm. I’ve already got an early war German infantry platoon (see below) and wanted a more ‘original’ (obscure?) force to face them. The Dutch army in 1940 was woefully under equipped and, indeed, undertrained but the troops nevertheless fought as hard as anyone else.
For figures I am using Outpost’s 28mm Romanians; not only did the Romanian army use Dutch made helmets, they were attired and equipped almost identically to the Netherlands army.
Three squads of eleven, a three man command team, an M08 MG team and enough figures left over to crew a yet-to-be-acquired infantry gun:
The chaps at Outpost were very nice and kindly replaced all the figures with rolled greatcoats with those without for me, although this does mean that I have one less pose. The figures themselves are quite good (although the helmets could do with a bit more work), and scale well with my foundry Germans :
My only real complaint is with the Officer figure, who is waving his pistol around in a rather silly manner. A bit of greenstuffing fixes this:
The basic Dutch infantry support weapon was the Lewis Gun. My platoon will have one (or maybe two...). This chap's was supplied by Company B:
Finally for today I put together the M08 HMG:
I did not intend to include and armour in this project (the Dutch had virtually none), although I have become rather taken with the idea of a Vickers-armed Carden-Lloyd tankette, five of which were used by the Dutch during the invasion:
Anyone know where I can get one in 28mm?
Finally a couple of poor photos of my Germans (Foundry with a smattering of Crusader/BEF). You will notice that they are somewhat outnumbered by the Dutch (an excuse to buy more!
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Thanks for looking!
26 November 2011, 07:39:51 PM