This weekend I was gifted with a handful of minis which may be very loosely interpreted to represent 1/72 Spanish Civil War troops. This is a war I know almost nothing about, other than a bit of literature, folk music and aviation. What I have now is basically WWII stuff, though with paint jobs and a little imagination it'll work.
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| Toy vehicles. I can identify the Daimler armored cars (well past the period but fair stand-ins), but not the tank. |
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| 70-80 cheap toy soldiers. About a third have rifles, a third bazookas, and a third pistols. These can represent Russians or possibly Italians. |
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 can represent Germans or Spanish line infantry, while the armed civvies could make militia of either side. |
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| Some nice lasercut wooden bases. |
If you choose to try Graham's rules, I recommend sitting in on one of his remote games to truly see how the rules work in practice.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to, if I could.
DeleteIf you contact me with your email address, I have several resources that I can send you.
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Bob
Very kind of you, I will!
DeleteA fun project - and everything is at least adaptable - especially the truck: a command vehicle, troop transport or ambulance. The tank I have been quite unable to identify. I'd probably call it a T26 (it isn't, but in my view, that's near enough) or just a generic light tank. The a/cars might be something that happens to have a decent gun, such as a BA-6 (if you're using them as Soviet supplied).
ReplyDeleteIf you're not concerned about scales, the jeep is just a jeep - or a light transport vehicle. Or they can be pressed into use as light gun tractors/ prime movers and/or light trucks.
I've done much the same sort of 'fudge' with my Army Men project, with my Patton and Centurion tanks being 'down graded' into something closer to 1942-3 technology.
Cheers,
Ion
Thanks for your thoughts - I'm not too worried about fudging, and have gotten plenty of inspiration from others! Counts-as will be fine at first. More figures are on the way, some of them more SCW-specific. The tank is a Japanese die-cast.
DeleteSome of those grey infantry are Airfix Italians, which should be ideal. Plasticsoldierreview.com has photo's to help identify which
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up!
DeleteI'm impressed by the manner in which you can juggle your different projects.
ReplyDeleteI'd be more impressed if I could actually accomplish something! "Ever forward, but slowly," as Blucher said.
DeleteThe tank is a Majorette "Sonic Flashers" toy tank and looks like nothing historical (nor scale!). I've taken the turrets off and use as quasi Carden Lloyds for my 28mm VBCW stuff (https://hereford1938avbcwtng.blogspot.com/) but agree with the Archduke that for 28mm SCW you're probably best calling it a T-26 - and squinting !
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