You can also view them as a slideshow here:
Gallery: 3rd Canadian Division
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010
New pictures of my painted 3rd Canadian Division
It is time to show some better pictures of my 3rd Canadian Division Regina Rifles Regiment company. The other pictures were too bad to look at. These new pictures are at least a little better.
You can also view them as a slideshow here:
Gallery: 3rd Canadian Division
Lets start
HQ
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You can also view them as a slideshow here:
Gallery: 3rd Canadian Division
Lets start
HQ
Click on the Read More link to see more pictures
Sunday, 10 October 2010
What's next on my painting table
Next on my painting table is a M5A1 Stuart Light Tank platoon containing 5 tanks. The models are made by Battlefront and come in a box. UBX21 M5A1 Stuart Light Tank Platoon. All 5 tanks are individually sculpted so none of them looks the same. Personally i find these some great looking models.
One thing i haven't decide yet is if i will, after the base color is applied, paint a camo pattern on them or not.
After painting this platoon can be used in my D-1 US Airborne company and in my Cobra 2nd Armored Tank company.
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| Primed M5A1 Stuart Light Tank Platoon |
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Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Field Battery, Royal Artillery Platoon end result
This is the end result of the Field Battery, Royal Artillery platoon for my Canadian Company.
I know it probably won't be an award winning platoon for painting but i think it will look great on the gaming table.
The intention is to, in the future, increase the size of the platoon with four more guns.
I am sorry for the crappy pictures. Somehow no matter what i did the photo's turned out bad. In real the platoon looks better.
Comments are always welcome. Good or bad.
The Platoon
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I know it probably won't be an award winning platoon for painting but i think it will look great on the gaming table.
The intention is to, in the future, increase the size of the platoon with four more guns.
I am sorry for the crappy pictures. Somehow no matter what i did the photo's turned out bad. In real the platoon looks better.
Comments are always welcome. Good or bad.
The Platoon
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Friday, 1 October 2010
Today in Dutch WWII History: The Razzia of Putten.
An attack by a resistance group on a German Wehrmacht was the reason for the German occupier to take retaliation measures against the people of Putten a small city in the middle of the Netherlands.
The night before.
In the night of September 30 1944 members of the Putten resistance movement shot at a car of the German Wehrmacht between Putten and Nijkerk near the Oldenallerbridge. In this car were 2 officers and 2 corporals.
During the gunfight the corporals managed to escape unhurt, 1 of the officers, although heavily wounded, escaped to a nearby farm from here he later was brought to Harderwijk where he died the next day. The other officer was captured and held hostage.
Revenge.
On sunday October 1, at the Command of General Friedrich Christiansen, the German Werhmacht raided most of Putten and a part of Nijkerk . During this raid 7 men and 1 young woman got killed.
Putten was surrounded by the German Wehrmacht , which also included the Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring who was encamped in nearby Harderwijk.
The women and children were separated from the men and locked up in the church. The men were brought and locked up in the school or eierhal. In the evening the woman and children were released on the condition that they would come back the next morning with food for their men.
They all came back the following morning.
All men between 18 and 50 years of age were put on transportation to Concentration camp Amersfoort.
Not much later all the woman and children did get the order to leave Putten within 2 hours.
When they all have left the village about one hundred homes were set on fire by German and Dutch SS'. The returning women found nothing but ruins.
In Camp Amersfoort 59 men were released. On October 11 the remaining 601 men were deported to concentration camp Neuengamme (during this transportation 13 men managed to jump from the train). A part of the men ended up in several other camps, which were part of Neuengamme.
Here most of the men died because of malnutrition, slavery, exploitation and infectious diseases.
Aftermath.
After the war, only 48 men returned home, of these 48 men 5 more died because of the deprivations they had endured.
Total number of men deported 660
Released in Amersfoort 59
Deported to Neuengamme 601
Jumped out of the train 13
Arrived in Neuengamme 588
Died in German Concentration camps 540
Returned to Putten after the war 48
Died soon after return 5
Killed during the Raid 8
Total number of victims 553
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The night before.
In the night of September 30 1944 members of the Putten resistance movement shot at a car of the German Wehrmacht between Putten and Nijkerk near the Oldenallerbridge. In this car were 2 officers and 2 corporals.
During the gunfight the corporals managed to escape unhurt, 1 of the officers, although heavily wounded, escaped to a nearby farm from here he later was brought to Harderwijk where he died the next day. The other officer was captured and held hostage.
Revenge.
On sunday October 1, at the Command of General Friedrich Christiansen, the German Werhmacht raided most of Putten and a part of Nijkerk . During this raid 7 men and 1 young woman got killed.
Putten was surrounded by the German Wehrmacht , which also included the Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring who was encamped in nearby Harderwijk.
The women and children were separated from the men and locked up in the church. The men were brought and locked up in the school or eierhal. In the evening the woman and children were released on the condition that they would come back the next morning with food for their men.
They all came back the following morning.
All men between 18 and 50 years of age were put on transportation to Concentration camp Amersfoort.
Not much later all the woman and children did get the order to leave Putten within 2 hours.
When they all have left the village about one hundred homes were set on fire by German and Dutch SS'. The returning women found nothing but ruins.
In Camp Amersfoort 59 men were released. On October 11 the remaining 601 men were deported to concentration camp Neuengamme (during this transportation 13 men managed to jump from the train). A part of the men ended up in several other camps, which were part of Neuengamme.
Here most of the men died because of malnutrition, slavery, exploitation and infectious diseases.
Aftermath.
After the war, only 48 men returned home, of these 48 men 5 more died because of the deprivations they had endured.
Total number of men deported 660
Released in Amersfoort 59
Deported to Neuengamme 601
Jumped out of the train 13
Arrived in Neuengamme 588
Died in German Concentration camps 540
Returned to Putten after the war 48
Died soon after return 5
Killed during the Raid 8
Total number of victims 553
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Monty's Meatgrinder army file update
New update for the Monty's Meatgrinder army file available. Version 1.7
A minor bug fixed in the OoB of the file.
When you selected the Heavy mortar platoon or the Tank Destroyer Platoon they showed up twice on the OoB when it should be only once.
Excel, Excel 2007, OpenOffice file available.
Thanks for reading
A minor bug fixed in the OoB of the file.
When you selected the Heavy mortar platoon or the Tank Destroyer Platoon they showed up twice on the OoB when it should be only once.
Excel, Excel 2007, OpenOffice file available.
Thanks for reading
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