As promised in the Top 10 Requests thread, the designer has spent a bit of time this month working on the No.1 requested item, the WWII Refugees!
We're really chuffed with these, they're exactly what we had in mind, with a nice mix of poses/types. From left to right, we've got a chap carrying his belongings over his shoulder, a lady sitting on an upturned box, a young girl, a small boy, an elderly man with his walking stick, and finally an old woman pulling a hardcart containing her possessions.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7792839564_0b3289ba5b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pendraken/7792839564/)
We'll get these moulded up and released as soon as possible!
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Cool, when can I order :)
Excellent looking figures - well done
Really good looking figures! :D
Looking good
IanS
Excellent! Endlessly useful.
Ohh, luvely... :-bd
I'll be getting some of them when they're ready. perfect for my France 1940 project.
Absolutely top-notch 8)
Excellent! I can find uses for them. :)
yea good stuff.
Duane
oooh I want them :D
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What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees? As non-combattants their only function is to get slaughtered or, at best, get in the way. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.... :P
Scenarios, eh!!!
Well you could (if yer utterly tasteless) construct using barbed wire a very tall fence with gates and watchtowers.....................
No lets not even go there chaps.
Can we get some of these with rifles/sten guns, I could see a use for them in D-Day scenarios as French resistance, just stat them up as fairly rubbish and you'd be good to go. BUT you do need one female in the "Leesten Vaerly Carefooly, I shall Say zis onley wance..." pose.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 August 2012, 08:08:15 AM
What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees? As non-combattants their only function is to get slaughtered or, at best, get in the way. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.... :P
One of the guys at the Tring Club ran an early war scenario with groups of refugees wandering randomly around. If a unit ended up close to a refugee stand it halved their speed as the civies were blocking the road.
Oh nice idea, I love those little twists that don't take much effort.
Duane
Quote from: GordonY on 23 August 2012, 09:19:37 AM
Can we get some of these with rifles/sten guns, I could see a use for them in D-Day scenarios as French resistance, just stat them up as fairly rubbish and you'd be good to go. BUT you do need one female in the "Leesten Vaerly Carefooly, I shall Say zis onley wance..." pose.
I'll second that! These will be a great addition for RPG.
Cheers,
Kev
Hi
Just came back home and I find some nice releases to tempt me to spend more money :D.
Just a shame that the boy is too young to alter to a boy scout :D.
Much better looking than the too slim and tall aliens from railway types I've got now. With the VBCW police (thank you for the samples Leon :) ), gentry types and these, my next order is already taking shape.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 August 2012, 08:08:15 AM
What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees? As non-combattants their only function is to get slaughtered or, at best, get in the way. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.... :P
My latest 10mm project is France, 1940. The refugees will be crowding the roads and generally getting in the way.
Quote from: Derek H on 30 August 2012, 09:36:30 AM
My latest 10mm project is France, 1940. The refugees will be crowding the roads and generally getting in the way.
Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?
Quote from: mijalo on 30 August 2012, 05:47:00 PM
Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?
Coincidentally, Dave's working on a conversion of the ECW Tumbrel cart for use in the WWII ranges as well.
Hi mijalo
Quote from: mijalo on 30 August 2012, 05:47:00 PM
Ditto.
Just to add a few more blockages, does pendraken make a horse-drawn wagon that could be used for the period?
You could use the German service wagon GR35
(http://www.combatcommand.co.uk/Pendraken/Images/GermanWagon.jpg)
(http://www.combatcommand.co.uk/Pendraken/Images/GermanSupplyWagon.JPG)
Possibly for refugees, just use 2 horses and a head swap for the driver from one of the new refugee figures :)
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
You probably wouldn't even have to do that - peaked caps were common enough in the Low Countries and near the coasts. Just paint it dark blue.
Incidentally, if those wagons were your work, Grumps, they're very, very nice. :-bd
Quote from: Leon on 30 August 2012, 05:47:50 PM
Coincidentally, Dave's working on a conversion of the ECW Tumbrel cart for use in the WWII ranges as well.
Thanks. Any idea if it will it be available at the same time of the refugees?
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 30 August 2012, 10:21:21 PM
You could use the German service wagon GR35
Possibly for refugees, just use 2 horses and a head swap for the driver from one of the new refugee figures :)
Thanks. That will be definitely borne in mind, with may a little work of the wagon's load; I imagine refugees weren't quite as orderly in packing as the wehrmacht.
Quote from: mijalo on 31 August 2012, 06:08:02 PM
Thanks. Any idea if it will it be available at the same time of the refugees?
Not sure at this point, depends on other stuff.
Hello Hertsblue
Quote from: Hertsblue on 31 August 2012, 08:03:14 AM
Incidentally, if those wagons were your work, Grumps, they're very, very nice. :-bd
Unfortunately they aren't mine, I found the pictures on a forum post and they are from http://www.combatcommand.co.uk/Pendraken/ (http://www.combatcommand.co.uk/Pendraken/) which has some painted examples of Pendraken WW2. You can tell my work by the smudgy fingerprints and the plaster dust where I have thrown them at a wall ;D ;D ;D
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 August 2012, 08:08:15 AM
What sort of scenarios are you people dreaming up that require hordes of refugees?
Well, there's get the refugees to safety, per Defiance http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/
and there's "Partisans or civilians", good for WWII, or your favorite interwar civil war. And some of the figures would be fine for protesters for interwar union violence, perhaps just before your favorite civil war. I bet they would also work for Hungary '56.
Not all pure wargame situations in the sense of a straight up battle but such things can be fun to game.