I am in a new painting project. Some months ago a friend commissiomed me to paint an dromedary force for his Italian Flames of War army.
In early XX century the colonial powers as Italy, France or United Kingdom had camel and dromedary cavalry units that mainly were used as police forces in the African and Middle-east territories.
British Camel forces in the Bristish Somaliland
Some Colonial Camel Police in the Italian Lybia
The cavalry, and then the camel and dromeday forces, hadn't a very relevant role in the WWII. The use of planes, tanks and machine guns made them very vulnerable. They were used mainly as reconnaissance and exploration elements.
The Camel Corps of the Arab Legion practising firing in Middle East during the 40's
A german soldier learning how to ride a camel
As I said before, my friend wanted a dromedary force. He plans to use it as a reconnaissance force, replacing the "motociclisti" bases by dromedary bases. He will use the same rules as for the Motorbikes, but his Italian Army will be more personalized.
Italian dromedaries in the Sahara Desert
The last week I started painting the miniatures in the free time I found (I have a lot of work this weeks in the university ...). Here are my small advance until now
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Berín 1945 - II
I don't write in the blog as much as I would want. I'm very busy with university, friends and when I find some free time I prefer to spend it painting that preparing a new post for the blog (you really spend a lot of time... you have to about what you want to write about, take the photos, upload them and write the text) But I will try to have the blog much more actualized that before now.
As I told int he last post I have been painting a Berlin theme based army. As I explained I drileld holes in the plasticard that I bought with the idea to fit the miniatures in. So I did an exhaustin work removing the "metal bases" under the feet of Flames of War soldiers
As the holes were not exact I had to fill with some putty the most of them, but finally it was finished after a lot of work. This is the result:
Finally in the army (that is double, it has some SS and some Volkssturm platoons) I mixed urban bases with "country" bases. I wanted to represent defenders of the Tiergarten park
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