Zen's Shiny Balkans

[Zenbadger]

I just bought into Mark Copplestone's Little Soldiers range and am using them to resurrect a project I started back in the late 90s. It involves a little group of nations nestling somewhere in the lost backwoods of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. The first one to see actual troops on the painting table is Monteaggro, a coastal Grand Duchy with loosely held ties to Fascist Italy but also courting France for much needed armaments.



A Monteaggran Regular Infantryman. (Copplestone Panovian)

I have also bought a shedload of Mark's Berglanders which I will use as the Austrian/German-backed Schlaffe Alte-Stoffkatze. Just trying to come up with a none-too-nazi colour scheme for them.

[goat major]

wow thats a lovely job - this is a great little project

[Willz the Wargamer]

Lovely looking models.


Willz.

[valleyboy]

great stuff

[Essex Boy]

Lovely job, Zen, very neat and tidy painting. Quality.

I know someone who's going to be greatly tempted by that range once he's seen your toys.

Iain

[Peeler]

Nice!

[Zenbadger]

Thanks chaps. I love the proportions of these sculpts, I wish there was a WW2 range in similar style, unfussy, not too chunky. Apart from the mitten hands you could easily layer these up in a more modern style.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Apart from the mitten hands you could easily layer these up in a more modern style.

Is this where the expression "Got mittens" comes from?

[valleyboy]

Shiny's a re not my thing but those are lovely

[Jeremy]

I was fully expecting this thread to be a euphemism