February Fallschirmjäger Flashback

As the pace of my painting has slowed down to the movement of pond water - as we'd say in the Army, I thought of posting images of figures I painted some time ago, but not posted on this blog - at least not close ups. Some of my blogger brethren may have already seen them, and I apologize upfront for the redundancy. However, this reposting of images serves several purposes, one to ensure they're preserved in case the other website goes away, another to share the images with those who may not have seen them, and finally to keep this blog alive :)! I'll try to not post images which have already been posted on this blog - and most haven't as I stopped posting on the other website once I stood this one up - back in November 2008. All of these figures are Victory Force Miniatures - with a couple of headswaps from other makers. They've been used in Bolt Action, and before that Disposable Heroes games.

Fallschirmjägerzug Wolfram, 5th Parachute Division - just a name I made up at the time.

Same guys, different view.

Oberleutnant Helmut von  Blücher, 5 FJD, commander of this merry band. 28mm Victory Force Miniatures - headswap with Battle Honors. Tan/water camo smock.

Led by the dashing Feldwebel Kermit von Wolfram - this is a jagertrupp with veterans wearing several different versions of smocks.

Unteroffizier Hans Heimlich leads these stoic Fallschirmjäger in splinter pattern smocks.

Unterfeldwebel Otto Janhammerstein leads his jagertrupp wearing the old grey-green smocks.

Jagertrupp in newly issued tan/water pattern smocks. The guy on the far right has a headswap from Battle Honours, IIRC. Truppfuhrer is the indomitable Unterfeldwebel Getrude Koenigsberg II - I named him after a friend I grew up with back in Hawaii - his dad was German (a Porsche mechanic) and his mom was Japanese.

A few replacements with standard issue helmets - these guys haven't gone through jump training.

DFS 230 Glider -This is a 1:48 resin kit by Karo-As Modellbau, a German company - in fact I had to get the swastika from somewhere else as the kit didn't include it per their laws.

Anyway, thanks for allowing me to indulge - it was a bit fun for me as I hadn't visited the other site in a long time, and didn't realize that a lot of my figures there aren't on this blog.