Czech Legion at Salute

[Poliorketes]

Apart from 60ies spies, Mark Copplestone announced Czech Legion for Back of Beyond. Ouch! Can't wait!

[Grimm]

how dos the Czech Legion look like ?

[Le matou rouge]

how dos the Czech Legion look like ?

Ragged !  
Originally, They wear austro-hungarians uniforms, but then they deserted en masse and began to be resupplied with old russian uniforms. In the end, they were eqquiped with all sort of clothes from all the Allies (Americans, English, French, Japanese...) who try to evacuate them to Europe via Siberia. Fascinating story, more here for exemple :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Legion

meow,
Matt

[Plynkes]

how dos the Czech Legion look like ?

Pretty much like any other Russian unit of the Great War, as far as I'm aware, maybe a little tattier. Maybe during their adventures during the RCW they had a more distinctive appearance, I'm not sure.

[Lt. Hazel]

how dos the Czech Legion look like ?

There´s a picture in the Osprey, I think you have it? Like other RCW troops but they had a white/red ribbon instead of a cockade attached to their cap. And I want a unit or two  

[carlos marighela]

Bahhh. Redundant. Quick snip of the red star on his Bolsheviks and paint on a red and white ribbon and voila Czech Legion + one or two converted BTD NKVD figures throen in. That's what I did anyway. Was hoping he would do Indian cavalry or Japanese.

Carlos, what about Brigade games Indian Cav? I've 36 of the little folk and they are real cute :love:

Helen

[carlos marighela]

Ragged !  
Originally, They wear austro-hungarians uniforms, but then they deserted en masse and began to be resupplied with old russian uniforms. In the end, they were eqquiped with all sort of clothes from all the Allies (Americans, English, French, Japanese...) who try to evacuate them to Europe via Siberia. Fascinating story, more here for exemple :

Ragged maybe but not in Austro Hungarian uniforms as a whole. The Czech legions were formed bodies of troops under the Imperial Russian Army, about a divisions worth by late  1918 they were uniformed and equipped by the Tsarist and Provisional governments.

All the photos I've seen purporting to show Czech Legionnaires in AH uniform date from much earlier, when they were prisoners or the legion was forming. Yes there were a number of Czech prisoners encountered in Russia and some may have come across in their existing rags but not many I'd wager. Of course ragged AH uniformed trops would be useful in and of themselves. AH prisoners fought against the Czechs, against the British in Transcaspia and of course they would serve well as various Polish and Ukrainian units.

The photos with the spiffy French supplied uniforms seem to date mainly from the occupation of Vladivostok 1919-1920 by which time the Czech's weren't doing much fighting.  For the period of active combat along the railway lines you really want Russian uniformed figures, minus podgorni  and maybe with their hats bashed.

[carlos marighela]

Yes helen Brigade might be the only option and they are quite nice figures.

[Hammers]

No images of the minis yet?

[Poliorketes]

haven't seen any. It was only mentioned in the öatest newsletter from Copplestone Castings