Friday 27 July 2012

Native soldiers and a crude anti tank gun

Yes I have got them done the native troops I have long said I was paining are done. not as good as I hoped the spears I was going to give them were not the right shape. but never the less they are done and I can now show you them.

Oronegro's jungles are a dense and disorientating mass of life that only a handful of people know their way through and the majority of those are criminals, but there is another group who may not know all the roads but they do know how to make the paths, these are the native troops. These men and women (OK I do not have any females but there can be female soldiers) come from the small tribes that live in the forests north and south of the river valley where most of Oronegro's farmland and infrastructure is located. experts in bush craft, hunting, ambush and night fighting they are now often being called upon to aid in the urban warfare in the major cities as regular troops fail to hold the line. in some cases an elite they find themselves at a disadvantage in the city with their old equipment and lack of body armour. so here they are.
street fighting is a far cry from stopping drug gangs in a humid valley during a storm but these guys can adapt to their new task

with them is an anti-tank gun they got from a small company that is made up of workers from an arms factory still loyal to the government

whatever comes their way they will oppose

this is the star of the soldiers, his camo came out well

made up from Airfix WW2 Africa-Corp troops given to me by David they are now native soldiers

I hope this gives you a better perspective

and now the gun, I have worked on the camo for this

cannibalised from an old toy car and other things this rag-tag creation is common place in the cities where weapon factories provided employment to a few thousand people
well there you guys go I hope you enjoyed this post. NEXT UP SPETNAZ!

11 comments:

  1. Like it. IMHO inventiveness is one of the most important parts of model making. Keep it coming.
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. I second Paul!
    A lot of imagination in your work: that's very nice!

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  3. Yes! soon, AK47s and MP40s on the same table!! me too.awesome blog guy.imagi-nations are alot of fun.

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  4. I like them too Gowan. Very creative use of these old figures. btw, with a bit of a stretch the weapons will pass in modern games: MP-40, much like the soviet PPS still being made in the late sixties. K98 Mausers, almost identical to an M48 (which I have) that are still available and were used widely in post-war Eastern countries. Didn't mean to be long winded! Good job.

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  5. These figs were full of flash but it seems you did a good job on them! I'm glad you did that and found a good service for them!

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    1. thanks David. yes they were full of flash but a candle dealt with that. thanks for the figs once again

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  6. Some good work in there Gowan. A good conversion would be to alter or chamge the Africa Korps clones weapon into a more modern looking boom stick.

    Well done.

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  7. thanks guys. lots of nice things said. which makes me feel good. I hope that you'll like the work I will be showing to you all next up but it will be a while I have yet to wash and prime the Spetnaz

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  8. I recognise those figures as Hong Kong knock-offs of the original Airfix figures (I've several of those myself!). I reckon they make fine Third World' soldiery, and the camo looks the part. Obviously elite troops being shown here: their uniforms look... well... uniform.

    I can imagine the less regular guys will have all sorts of different bits of uniform, some camo, some not, giving a hand-to-mouth rag-tag look of an army too busy to care overmuch about appearances...I've done something of the sort with my Rus- sorry - my Pan-Andean People's Republican troops. No camo, of course - strictly WW2.

    Nice gun. Looks as though it will sort most AFVs out.
    Cheers
    Ion

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    1. thanks ion. the Native units in the Oronegrean national army are all well equiped with the old national equipment the standard army used back in the late 40's and early 50's. the uniformness of the troops I feel is slighly exadurated in the photos

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  9. Very nice work Gowan! Very impressed with the gun. The camo looks great too.

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