WW2 Chindits

[pocoloco]

Those look ace, can't wait to see the Gurkhas!

[scrivs]

Great work set off with some very nice basing techniques.

[Cubs]

A couple more recruits for my Chindit column. The radio cables are twisted wire from a waste bit of flex.

[westwaller]

Excellent work Cubs! I Really like the evocative weathering
Warlord figures that look really good? they must be Paul Hicks sculpts then...!?

[moonshado]

Oh they are good, really like the sparky-superb face.

[Cubs]

Warlord figures that look really good? they must be Paul Hicks sculpts then...!?

Uh-huh. I must say I'm a tad disappointed by the casting with some of these BA figures, but Mr Hicks' sculpts are always top notch and well worth the clean-up time.

[Onebigriver]

Lovely stuff. Recently found out a great uncle was a Chindit. Those blokes had some balls.

[Cubs]

The whole ethos of the Chindits is fascinating to me and the lessons they learned in the jungles of Burma have since become standard doctrine. It's sometimes easy to think of them as elite super-soldiers, but they weren't. They were a highly experimental unit of relatively ordinary soldiers who achieved extraordinary feats of endurance and infiltration, simply because they had to.

It's nearly impossible to regard them without using hindsight to wish they had been organised or dealt with differently, but we just can't get into that debate without trying to understand where Britain and the Commonwealth were at that stage of the war and what their priorities were.

Anyhoo, back to the toys. Paul Hicks has perfectly captured the exhaustion and malnourished look in the faces of these guys. They all look lean and washed out, with sunken eyes and a general look of extreme fatigue.