Hello,
here’s a few pictures of first figure from Dragon 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar set I’m working on .This is going to be small dio with 4 soldiers , haystack and wooden fence somewhere in Bosnian mountains. General plan is not finished yet, so there could be changes…
cheers
Robert
looks real good rob! [tup]
I’m not too keen on SS with “Fez” caps, but as they go, you are doing a great job…
Real nice job especially the camo! [tup] I am always learning… never knew that Germans actually wore ‘Fez’ caps! I am looking forward to see more pictures of your figures and the diorama.
I’m not to keen on SS.
Paint the Fez caps red and brighten the scene up a little!!![8D]
Handschar’s Parade Dress Fez was Red I believe.
Well majoriti of soldiers in that division were muslims from Bosnia that is reason for Fez, commanding oficers were germans.
that would be correct I guess, I have found combat picture where fez is green-grey
Yes, that is correct. “The Service Fez” was Feld-Grau. Figure’s looking good Robert, can’t wait to see them finished!
Looking very good! Very, very good!
I’ve always been fascinated by the SS, and these fez caps do look fun when you suddenly see one after browsing trough tons of photos!
Love the camo, love the skintones, love the trousers!
But I must say, a little bit too much blue in the eye?
Cheers,
-Lasse
Just wanted to point out that I find this incredibly amusing!
Great work on the camo, by the way!!
Hi all…thanks for previous comments…
Painting is slowly coming to the end, here’s a few pictures , need to correct some errors ,add some finishing touches , but overall I’m satisfied how it come out…
Cheers
Robert
Taking a break from figure painting so I started with groundwork … here’ s some progress so far…
Cheers
Robert
The Shriners are coming, the Shriners are coming! Seriously, looks VERY realistic, great work!
I love it…reminds me of home [:-^]. By the way, “Handschar” is spelled “Handzar” with a little “V” like thingy above the letter “z”. It means sword in Turkish, or at least it is an adopted word from Turksih language in Bosnia.
Cheers…
I LIKE IT! [tup] Nice job!
After R&R I’m continuing… some progress … hope you like it
Cheers
Robert
Very cool! YOu seldo see a dio with only figures–in that respect, your dio is noteworthy. NIce groundwork too!
The Handschar division is noteworthy for having one of the–if not THE–worst records of atrocities and War Crimes of all SS divisions. They were also the only division to mutiny.
http://en.allexperts.com/e/0/13th_waffen_mountain_division_of_the_ss_handschar_(1st_croatian).htm
I like this.
So far, my only suggestion would be to sink the figures into the groundwork, to give the impression of weight. They kinda appear to be floating a little. A few dabs of diluted white glue could soften the turf where the figs are to be placed, and then the figs could be pressed into the ground a bit.
That groundwork is fantastic, btw.
Steve
Thanx for comments folks…
figures are not fixed yet to the ground so they may look as floating over it… there is some work and corrections to be done on figures and maybe on the ground , thinking to put some more grass clumps outside od fence…
About 13th Handschar Division, history of that division is well known to me with all controversy connected to them. I choose to make this little dio because I thought they are interesting and somehow unusual with their Fez hats which are not often seen… no political or racial background for which I was kind of accused on one other forum…
Cheers
Robert