28mm WWII Early War German SS from Crusader

[bigjackmac]

All,

This is from the wonderful Mr. Nick over at Northstar, who hooked me up with a platoon deal to serve as the core of my early war Waffen SS force.  Specifically, these are metal figures from Crusader, and they're lovely.  Nice and hefty, great detail on weapons and gear, great proportions, and though I love my Warlord plastic figures, it was such a blessing to not have to build all these guys!!!

I bought a regular rifle platoon, then augmented with some weapons teams and engineers.  I wanted the early war force to have a uniform look, so I painted the rifle platoon and some of the supporting weapons teams in Oak Leaf pattern camo, and I painted the engineers and ATG crew in Plane Tree camo, just to set them apart a bit.


Platoon leadership types, the Lieutenant on the left and his Platoon Sergeant.  Pretty happy with how the camo turned out.


The backside of a couple NCOs with MP-40s.


A pair of riflemen.


First two engineers, one on right has the flamethrower.  I have no idea what the dude on the left has in his hand; is it a flare pistol of some sort?  It looks like a pistol with a rifle grenade attached to it...


Closeup of my Plane Tree Camo.

To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2025/06/28mm-wwii-early-war-german-ss-from.html

Pretty cool little unit.  And if I've got early war SS, then you know what's coming next.

V/R,
Jack

[paulr]

     

Great job on the two similar but different camos

The engineer on the left looks to be holding a Sturmpistole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmpistole

[bigjackmac]

Thanks Paul, and yessir, I believe you are correct!

V/R,
Jack