Brigade Games American Polar Bears

[Helen]

Hi Folks,

Lon has now photos for the above as seen below:

[twrchtrwyth]

Are the polar bears a famous unit or is it slang for something. Nice minis.

[Helen]

Are the polar bears a famous unit or is it slang for something. Nice minis.

Please checkout this link, thankyou:

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/p_bears.htm

[Will Bailie]

"Polar Bears" was the nickname for the American soldiers who were sent to Arkhangelsk in 1918, to intervene in the Russian Civil War.  The troops were primarily from the 339th Infantry, from Michigan.

It will be interesting to compare them with the HLBSCo troops.  Looks like these troops have Lewis guns, rather than the BAR that HLBS have.  However, like the HLBS, these soldiers appear (to my untutored eye) to be equipped with Springfield M1903 rifles.  The AEF Siberia (in Vladivostok) was equipped with Springfields, but the Polar Bear expedition (in Arkhangelsk) had Mogin-Nasants.

Of course, they will be suitable for any arctic or antarctic expeditions, competing with Bolsheviks for control of the Bering strait, looking for cultists in winter in Vermont, cutting off Al Capone's whiskey shipments from Saskatchewan into North Dakota in January, hunting German "weather stations" in Greenland...

I'm sure I'll be ordering some once they get to the webstore!

[Helen]

Hi Will,

The Polar bears  are in the web-store:
http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BG-SIEA002&Category_Code=BGHMSIE&Product_Count=44
http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BG-SIEA001&Category_Code=BGHMSIE&Product_Count=43

[Will Bailie]

Darnit, I didn't want to hear that.  I haven't painted my HLBS Yanks yet!

[argsilverson]

Very nice!

Need to start a new front!

[Tancread]

Those really are good. I can think of a lot of uses for them. Thanks for the heads up!

[twrchtrwyth]

@Helen:Thanks for the link.

@Will:Thanks for the reply.

[Svennn]

B*ll*x!!

Another set of must haves. Looks like my backburner HLBS project is coming out again.

[Hammers]

Those are a bit bloody good, aren't they?

[Will Bailie]

Just realised how fitting that these models became available today - the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Tulgas:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23410

[Schogun]

What colors would one paint them?

[tsar1701]

Great minis ! I'll put them on my Christmass letter 

What colors would one paint them?

There's an illustration in the Osprey MAA on the White Russian Armies. They're mostly in brown.

[Ignatieff]

Oh Dear, more madness......these are super figures.