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Offline Anatoli

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12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« on: February 16, 2013, 11:14:03 AM »
This is the first half of the cavalry I'm painting for Chris/"Deploymentzone" over at the WWPD forum as a thank you gesture for the load of 15mm Polish stuff he donated to me. The models will be used for his Bolt Action games if I understood correctly.

The miniatures are 28mm Warlord Games Polish cavalry, half will be armed with lances the other half with sabers. The bases is something Chris will tend to himself. None of the riders are glued in place to make it safer to ship them back to the US when they are all done.

Hope to have the remaining 6 painted up towards the end of the next week. More pictures of the first batch can be seen on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/02/28mm-polish-cavalry-6-out-of-12-finished.html

« Last Edit: February 21, 2013, 10:13:00 AM by Anatoli »

Offline Onebigriver

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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2013, 01:29:27 PM »
Not so sure about the sculpts but I like the PJ!
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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2013, 01:35:57 PM »
Paintjob is very good
the sculpts.....

small asian steppe horses for Polish cavalry?
we are not in the 80ies any more....

Offline Anatoli

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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2013, 02:19:47 PM »
Yes the horses are very small, I noticed that a few years ago when I bought some cavalry for myself  :?

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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2013, 02:25:10 PM »
a pity since it is such a value upgrade for the miniatures to be painted by You
I suggest Perry plastic horses sold separately - they are a good average

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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2013, 12:51:48 PM »
Lovely stuff, both in paint & sculpt   :-* :-*

Offline Anatoli

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Re: 6 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2013, 10:12:51 AM »
Finished the cavalry for Chris, all 12 models painted up and ready to be shipped back home to US Virginia.

More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/02/polish-28mm-cavalry-12-of-12-finished.html



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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2013, 02:11:02 PM »
excellent Quality, THX for showing

Offline Chuckaroobob

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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2013, 02:35:11 PM »
Sweet!
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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2013, 04:25:52 PM »
They look pretty nice to me.

I'm sure it's often asked, but did the Poles ever actually charge with the bare sabre or lance into combat? I know both the Romanian and Dutch (to pick two armies I know a bit about) cavalry were trained to do so with the sabre, but neither (as far as I know) ever actually did it for real.
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Offline Anatoli

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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2013, 08:25:03 PM »
They look pretty nice to me.

I'm sure it's often asked, but did the Poles ever actually charge with the bare sabre or lance into combat? I know both the Romanian and Dutch (to pick two armies I know a bit about) cavalry were trained to do so with the sabre, but neither (as far as I know) ever actually did it for real.

Yes they did, there were quite a few cavalry charges during the September campaign (somewhere around 20 documented ones), the majority of them were performed with sabers, there was one or two that involved lances. There were also fighting between mounted Polish and German cavalry on a few occasions. They were occurred during the entire campaign, from the very first battles to the final battle. Most often the charges were quite successful, dispersing unaware enemy infantry, capturing artillery, attacking unsuspecting columns of "soft skin" vehicles and such. Though the role of the cavalry was primarily to act as modern dragoons, and they were used as such predominantly compared to the bold cavalry charges.

If you are interested in the Polish campaign I would recommend that you download my PDF that handles the subject. It was written with Flames of War in mind so there are army lists for FoW in the first half, but the second half is focused on historical battles in a campaign format. Each battle has a summary description of date, location and participants - and in each "operation" segment each battle is also described a bit closer. The document also includes transcribed interviews with Polish veterans of the September campaign from a documentary series that aired in Poland a couple of years ago.

Link to my PDF: http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/01/september-campaign-poland-in-flames.html

The compilation with the army list segment includes a lot of information about Soviet, Polish, German and Slovak units taking part in the fighting and may be interesting despite its "FoW" oriented nature. There is also an option to download the "historical campaign" section alone if you prefer to do so  :)

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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2013, 12:12:11 PM »
Captain Arthur Sandeman, a British officer in the Central Indian Horse, attached to US Gen. Stilwell's force of Chinese fighting in Burma 1942 had the dubious distinction of being the last British officer to die leading a cavalry charge. His cavalry blundered into the path of some Japanese HMGs, and he drew his sabre and ordered his men to charge.

The result was rather predicable.
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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2013, 04:14:36 PM »
Yes, and there were cavalry counterinsurgence units in the decolonization wars in Rhodesia, Angola and Namibia more recently, so there is still a use for cavalry......

Offline alcal

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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2013, 07:56:45 PM »
Beautifull paintwork,  a joy to look at, thanks for showing us your outstanding work.

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Re: 12 out of 12 28mm Polish cavalry
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2013, 08:03:25 PM »
Lovely work, thank you for sharing.

Cheers,

Helen
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