destroyed smke markers

Rater efficient, not so hard to make and looking damn good at the end..

the raw material

-coins or token

- pipe cleaners

- tuft or similar brush scenic material

- super glue

- wood glue

- cellulose dope

- dark spray can

- red and yellow acrylic paint..

 twist the pipe cleaner and glue it onto the washer/coin.

 once it is dry, apply A LOT of superglue on te base of you washer and coverwith tuft... press firmly.

 repeat the process along the cleaner, gluing, applying the tugft and pressing strongly

 your superglue jaris now nearly empty.. Your fingers are badly covered with glue and green foliage, but the first part is ... done.. Bear in mind that these 11 columns took me 30 minutes altogether...

 It's time to ou out... with your spray can black.. use a regular can for cars, or whaterver cheap you have in and. spray all over the column..

 Once the paint is dry (that's the longer partof the job), dip the into cellulose dope or wood glue..

let it dry for 24 hrs. Once it's solid dry... drybrush the basein yellow, then in red.. In order to ave a top notch effect, suggest you drybrush the whole coumn in white (very lightly)

AND YOU ARE DONE!!

STILL ALIVE

hello Everyone...

i'm still sound and fit.

theonly thing is the last six month have been entirely devoted to a Battle Group Kursk demo game we played two weeks agon..

painting the figs, part of the vehicles.. making forests, fortified hills, und so weiter has been a very tyring and devoted task.

By the way, if you don't know BGK, i strongly recomand that game, it is fun, quick and damn efficient..

will post an AAR of our game in here later on..

Will be back soon with new buildings for m long time Warsaw project...

see you around

Kubus

Kubuś,  the Polish WWII armored car, made by the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising.

A single copy was built by insurgents from "Krybar" Group, on the chassis of a Chevrolet 157 van.

It took part in the attack on Warsaw University.

 

Abandonned at the end of the Uprising it is still visible at the Polish army Museum in Warsaw

Battalion Parasol

Battalion Parasol (Umbrela) was the scouting element of the Armia Krajowa, the main Polish Resistance movement in World war II.

From 27th of September 1939 onwards, Grey Ranks (Szare Szeregi) the code name of the Polish Scout organization contributed to field the ranks of Parasol Battalion.

The unit was first organized by Adam Borys “Plug” a former Paratrooper coming from England in fall 1943. After bearing several names, the unit adopted her final one “Parasol”, Umbrellain 1944. . In the plan to liberate Poland, Parasol was due to meet and join the Polish 1st Independent parachute Brigade once landed.


Before the Uprising, the unit was renowned for numerous assassination missions, especially against Gestapo and High rank Nazi officials.

When the Polish government in London and the AK command decided – pressed by the rapid Soviet advance and the attitude of the “liberators” toward the underground units in freed Poland – to launch Operation Tempest – Burza., Parasol joined the famous Kedyw (Directorate for Diversion) units, the elite formations of the Warsaw uprising forces.

The second company - Batallion Parsol, under Captain Jerzy Zapadko “Mirsky”was tasked with scouting and assisting the Polish paratroopers Brigade.

In the early hours of the 06th of August, they deployed around the DZ located in the Plac Copernicus in the Old town.

General Bor visits the Company at the early hours of the 06th...

Bor's bodyguards.

2. Company under

Captain Mirsky

1st Platoon – Kopec

- Squad A - Luty

- Squad B – Mors

- Squad C - Bors

the heroic Girls of Warsaw, serving as scouts, messengers and Sewer rats.

Any and all crew weapon captured is immediately re-used... MGS

but also Mortars, flametrowers, not to mention the too few canisters received...



Warsaw city center - corner building

deep in my project, just finished this corner building for my Warsaw Uprising skirmish in 20mm...

 As this is a corner building, "sides" remains opened

 Floors are removable....

 20mm figgies and tank for scale...

Polish Para Brigade to the rescue...

The First Independant Parachute Brigade, under the command of Major-General Stanislaw Sosabowski was created in Septembrer 1941 in Scotland with the exclusive mission to be dropped into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British government, however, pressured the Polish into allowing the unit to be used in the Western theater.

Whatever, during his meeting with Premier Stalin on August the 4th, Prime Minister Mikolajczyk gets permission from his to fly over Soviet territory –in other words avoid as much as possible to fly over the liberated territories to reach the olish capital. In fighting Warsaw, time is running fast, and every minute counts.

Back to England, informed in the middle of the night of this expected development, General Sosabowski orders the 02nd Parachute Battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Ploszewski to be ready to take off the same day, August the 05th at 18h00. Planes will have to reach Warsaw via Brindisi, where they will be refueled.

At 19h24 on the 5th of August, despite all British attempts to delay their departure, Poles are finally on their way to Warsaw. As per flight schedules, the 2nd Battalion and one recon unit (with its jeeps) are the first wave.

They land in Brindisie the day after in the early morning hours.

Relations with the British planners and the NKVD representatives are terrible, both allies are trying to stop the Polish on track. Late morning, despite a very dense fog and the staunch refusal of the Russians to let the planes carry on their mission, carriers, with the 5ftParachute Company on board takes off. Due to the dense fog – rather unusual on this part of Italy – all further missions are postponed. Early morning the 07th of august, while planning the day missions, Brindisi high command receives a teletext advising that all flights to Warsaw are cancelled until further notice. They will never resume! The Brigade iso rdered back to Scotland, just in time to be involved into Market Garden . .

5th Parachute Company, less two carriers missing over Soviet territories will jump on warsaw late afternoon on the 06th of August 1944..