15mm Stormtroopers/Freikorps

[Fitz]

These are some 15mm WW1 German stormtroopers I picked up a while ago when Battlefront were having a sale to clear out their WW1 stock.

I'll be using them mainly as Freikorps, since the interwar period is my usual stomping ground rather than the Great War.

The coloured blobs are glass beads that I use to indicate the figure's weapon load, to ease identification for my decrepit old eyes: red for LMG, orange for SMG, pale blue for pistol, purple for portable anti-tank (ATR, PIAT, Panzerfaust etc.). I used to also use white beads for rifles, but since that's the default weapon for the period I thought it was a bit of a waste of time. So now I only indicate anything that's not a bolt-action rifle.

Most of these guys are armed with the long-barrelled Luger with butt-stock and snail magazine, so I've defined it as a self-loading carbine: basically the same range as an SMG, but lower rate of fire.

[von Lucky]

Lovely painting - particularly on the helmets.