Some 1914 Germans at eine Windmühle

[Plynkes]

(Yes, I learned a new German word today. "All together, class: Eine windmühle!" )

Painted these a couple of weeks back, but due one of my regular painting slumps didn't finish the varnishing and basework until today. Still having a few varnish woes, so apologies for the slight lingering shiny-shiny.

They're Great War Miniatures early war Germans.


I didn't make the windmühle, but I thought it made a nice backdrop.




I really, really like the Great War figures. Almost enough to scrap my Renegade ones and start from scratch again with GWM.


...Almost, but not quite. Funny, I had no complaints about the Renegade figures when I painted them, but these chaps make them look slightly second-rate.


Lovely detail. The only annoying thing is that the extra detail means they are a bit harder to paint, and they take longer. But I think the end result is worth it.


 

[commissarmoody]

vary nice all around

[Will Bailie]

Looking fantastic as always, Poly.

I agree with you about the difference between GWM and Renegade.  I had no problem with Renegade until I started to paint the GWM figures!  (and no doubt if I were to start on Musketeer Miniatures I would no longer want my GWM, and so on).  But I will keep my current mix of GWM, Renegade, Foundry, Battle Honours, Askari, Eureka, Brigade Models and Brigade Games WWI figures - and I'll add some Musketeers when I save up enough for another order across the pond!

[Gallowglass]

Lovely 

[andekmcc]

very nice set of figures 

[vikotnik]

'Eine Windmühle'...

I wonder how this word must sound to you English-speaking folk if a German pronounces it...

 

Wie auch immer, da sind wirklich sehr schön bemalte Soldaten bei Deiner Windmühle!!!

I was trying for something with more umlauts first...  

Great choice of colours and top notch paint jobs, Plynkes!

[Grimm]

very nice worl I love it 
ah I forgett ``SCHÄFERHUND``

[Helen]

Great work Poly. 

[Ray Rivers]

Great job!

Those figures just reek with personality and your choice of colors and painting style make them truly "eye popping."

[Captain Blood]

Plynkes, those look the absolute business.
And so much more sporting and charming than those dreadful late war Germans with their trench clubs and stick grenades.
Young Sickly must be very proud.

[Westfalia Chris]

Spiffing work, alter Kamerad!

Don´t know what to like best, the windmill, the bedrolls, but I guess I´ll settle for that marvellous wood effect on the rifles.

[Plynkes]

There's plenty of things I don't like about them that I didn't notice until I took photos (I hate the way a camera does that, they looked perfect until I started taking snaps  ), but I am pretty happy with the wood on the rifles and their faces. Their backpacks are nice too, but stupidly I didn't take any photos from behind.

Anyway, I ain't going back to tinker with them. I'll just try and improve on the next lot. Onwards and upwards!


Captain Blood: Sickers is more of a Stahlhelm type of chap. He mocks my devotion to the Pickelhaube, the ignorant little wretch.


I don't like the Schäferhund. One tried to bite me once, and I wasn't even trying to escape from a POW camp!

[Trencher]

Hey that's eye-candy! They look excellent! 
BTW, the number on the covers for the pickelhaube, is it just the "12" or a "12X".
I was asking as I read the book "Infanterieregiment Nr. 126 im Weltkrieg". And your Germans look pretty much like them.
Anyway, that's a nice paintjob - keep it up!

[argsilverson]

Yes Plynkes, very nice, ideed!

[Plynkes]

Trencher, it's 124.

Supposed to be 7th Company, 124th Regt. - Rommel's unit in 1914-15, though I don't know if the uniforms are quite right. I'm still unlocking the mysteries of all that bothersome stuff. Close enough for now.

There you go:

Slightly messy in places (like the brown shadow around his helmet's chin strap), but never mind, still experimenting with new techniques and new ways of painting, and it really isn't so visibly messy to the naked eye. I'll get the hang of it.