Monday 9 January 2012

20mm WW2 Painted Partisans and Resistance Fighters.

I gathered these WW2 20mm figures together to represent saboteurs, resistance fighters and for behind the lines shenanigans that tie up regular troops and put a strain on lines of supply and communication...

They are a mixture of soviet partisans from Shell Hole Scenics and CP Models, dismounted soviet tank crew and cossack from Britannia Miniatures and resistance fighters from Wargames Foundry (these are more western european operations), I will add my soviet airborne as well to give a more military look to the unit.....

Ray painted and based these (has never based a figure for me before) and got points in the challenge as well for them ( there is no bleeding fecking justice at all but that's life.......). I'm happy to have them even if the painting is a bit dodgy......









61 comments:

  1. Love that Soviet Cossack and that old lady reaching into her purse. Gun or grenade? I noticed 2 things. 1. You've a gorilla on you banner (beautiful silverback male) and 2. Ray is kicking your arse in the contest. Paint man paint! Paint till you've got blisters on your fingers.

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  2. lovely...and Ray did a pretty good job on the bases..

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  3. Some really nice painted minis.
    Love the lady with the handcart. Bringing something strong to the men in the frontline? ;-)

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  4. I think they look pretty good, certainly wouldn't have been able to pull that off myself! :p

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  5. The painting is dodgy? They look pretty good to me. Viva la revolution!

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  6. Excellent job on these Angry!

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  7. Such a variety of characters and poses!

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  8. CP are the masters of the scale!

    Great paint,
    Brian

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  9. Always had a soft spot for partisan fighters, lots of character to these, great stuff.

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  10. I thought that these looked familiar! Got to say it, he did you proud on these.

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  11. Very nicely done, Ray!

    I like the gorilla in the header of the blog too. Is there a resemblance Angry???

    BTW Angry - I have something you need to watch. Here in the States, we have a show called 'I Get That A Lot'. Kinda 'meh' overall, but the first show of this season has Pamela Anderson working in a Victoria's Secret. Wow. Google it! (I would, but Im blocked from youtube at work)

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  12. yes, Anne noticed it too, what is with the gorilla, Lurk? Feeling powerful, in the mood for bananas or sending someone a message? :))

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  13. Really nice looking stuff Fran and great new forum header!

    Christopher

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  14. @WarRaptor: Top man, will have to find this....

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  15. They're kinda ok? not sure of the colours used? Maybe you should have paid the poor guy more for them? He's very undervalued I hear? Did you pay extra for the basing?

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  16. my favorite is the second photo and the guy to the far right... nice work.

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  17. God I hate these guys, especially when the seem to pop out of nowhere, blocking supply lines and causing overall chaos.

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  18. Those are very nice. I like the last one with the Partisan looting the Nazi corpse.

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  19. Some suitably butch looking Ivan women folk amongst that lot :-)
    Very nice as ever

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  20. Watch out for the molotovs!!!
    Good work Fran! A nice lot of figs!
    T.

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  21. A nice collection of figures and I thought the painting and basing was rather good.

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  22. I was gonna say some thing then I noticed that Retro-Zombie already said it!

    I like the hat on said statue. It makes him look like quite the tough ass. And how hes painted he looks more "real" then the others. (but maybe thats cause hes of to the side of the light)

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  23. You two make me laugh LOL

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  24. I feel bad for that last chap. Doesn't look like he's going to make it. Also enjoyed the word, shenanigans. I haven't heard that work in a long time. Going to have to swipe it for a blog post.

    Just came out of the writing dungeon to let Bug go pee. Soon as she's done, it's back to work for me.

    Cheers & Boogie Boogie.

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  25. Nicely done, such a color cast indeed. I'd also never trust that little old lady with her purse, prob has a bazooka in there or something.

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  26. Awesome stuff, I too love the partisan leader in the cossack hat!

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  27. Never saw a dead action figure.

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  28. I just saw your comment Angry. I've brought back some of my history books written in the 1800's and some before and am going to begin writing posts about it next week. We are currently being required to sell of State Treasures to pay our debt, I'm trying to find out which ones. This according to Noonan's plans for our economy.

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  29. I love the figure carrying rocks. Only you could make rocks look good. Rocks. Really, how do you do that?

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  30. Great mate. I always like the look of resistance / freedom fighter types...way more interesting than uniformed troops.
    Cheers
    paul
    PS..tell Ray to sort his blog out..everytime I look it crashes my PC

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  31. Awesome man. Very creative. Always interesting here

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  32. Very nice Ray, Fran he's done you proud being as you actually paid for them can they not count towards your score even though you own them

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  33. Skills. You got them. I think I might pay good money to see you and Ray working together. All the love in the room must be overwhelming!

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  34. Nice job, Lurker! Search the dead guy twice...he is hiding some beer in a tin in his jacket pocket.

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  35. last image of the fallen resistance fighter is awesome.

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  36. Good work Ray for painting, and Fran for gathering the spoils.

    Good choice of colours all around.

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  37. Nice bunch of partisans - Ray did another fine job one these, as well as the "bonus" basing. Best, Dean

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  38. Really great work.

    Regards
    Lonewolf

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  39. Smashing work!
    Fran - what rules are you using for your WW2 skirmish gaming?

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  40. Didn't you get the bear? He was with the Cossack! Niv-ce bunch of figures Fran!

    You asked about the book I was reading. It's not bad, only a bit strange without Jack Ryan.

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.com/

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  41. Scott: European Battlefield, a skirmish Lord of the Rings....

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  42. Peter: Clancy is one of the best.......

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  43. Cool thanks I'll check it out
    Scott

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  44. They look really cool. But I do agree with Anne. Paint faster!

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  45. I really like the colour pallet that was chosen, awesome lads !

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  46. Those are by far some of the best paint jobs on resistance fighters I have ever seen out of the foundry! Amazing work here!

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  47. Fran, I honestly wish I could paint as quickly as you do.

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  48. Those look great. It's not often we see such a colorful mix of figures.

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  49. I just had the hardest flipping time trying to comment. It's nothing on bloggers end, probably mine. All this has made me forget what I was going to say....

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  50. These are amazing.

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  51. These are great and they remind me a lot of that film with Daniel Craig in, just cant remember the title.

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  52. I like! Good job, Ray :)

    You better feel lucky to have those, pal ;)

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  53. Really nice poses and not a dodgy paintjob to be seen. Great stuff guys.

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  54. Very nice looking partisans, good painting work !

    best regards dalauppror

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  55. lovely selection of partisans

    -- Allan

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  56. @PanzerKaput; Defiance is the title you're lookingfor;

    @Fran: yes he is!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.com/

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