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Title: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: callaghan on 23 June 2013, 03:11:28 PM
Hi All!
Lately I have been dedicated to the great war, here are some pictures of the my new army in 10mm  Pendraken:

http://soldatinodipiombo.blogspot.it/2013/06/miniature-in-10mm-della-12a-divisione_23.html (http://soldatinodipiombo.blogspot.it/2013/06/miniature-in-10mm-della-12a-divisione_23.html)

It is the "Slesian" division of Germany, who fought in Caporetto (Kobarid) in 1917:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sYPPNol5Sik/UccKNFVTr8I/AAAAAAAABAQ/u0P5kXVZT24/s1600/tedeschi4.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1tltTcQYP1M/UccKM9S_KcI/AAAAAAAABAE/Gz3t8ejv8aA/s1600/tedeschi3.jpg)

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Alessandro
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Fenton on 23 June 2013, 03:16:49 PM
Nice looking figures from probably  ( In my opinion) the nastiest and sadly much overlooked set of battles from WW1
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Leman on 23 June 2013, 03:56:34 PM
Good looking figures. Shame I can't get mine to go on with any ease.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: fred. on 23 June 2013, 04:37:23 PM
Nice.

Two questions - which rules? And which models are the guns - they look quite funky, a cross between modern and old.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Techno on 23 June 2013, 05:29:53 PM
Great job on those.
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 June 2013, 05:46:29 PM
Great figures, nicely done!
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: ryman1 on 23 June 2013, 06:11:46 PM
Really nice, will have to order a few of those infantry now :)
What pack are they from Lemmy?

Ry
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Leman on 23 June 2013, 07:19:44 PM
The guns look a lot like Austro-Hungarian 106mm howitzers. Maybe the Germans have borrowed them or maybe they are Austrians painted as Germans?
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Hertsblue on 24 June 2013, 11:41:05 AM
Nice job there, C  8)
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 24 June 2013, 11:42:42 AM
Quote from: ryman1 on 23 June 2013, 06:11:46 PM
Really nice, will have to order a few of those infantry now :)
What pack are they from Lemmy?

Ry
Not me!
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Leman on 24 June 2013, 12:04:49 PM
You'll have to address the question to the Soldier of Lead Ry. My best guess is the A-H howitzer. Figures are either late German or late A-H.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: callaghan on 24 June 2013, 05:53:43 PM
Thank you all guys!  :)

@Fenton
You're right! You're right! The First World War was something terrible, and certainly out of Caporetto have written so many things that are not true ..

@Fred 12df
The rules we use preferably, are Blitzkrieg Commander and Crossfire (Adapted to the First World War). Now I'm reading panzer8 ..

@Ryman1
Correct! They are a mix of German and Austro-Hungarian WWI Pendraken : the project is not yet completed.

@Dour Puritan
Correct! The guns are Austro Hungarian (From: http://www.kaiserjaeger.com/) : Mountain Artillery.

(http://www.kaiserjaeger.com/Foto%20Austriache/Artiglieria%20in%20Polonia.jpg)
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Leman on 24 June 2013, 07:56:25 PM
Thanks for that. After Dux Britanniarum the next army to go under my Brush is Austro-Hungarian 1914/15.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: nikharwood on 26 June 2013, 08:42:02 PM
Very nicely done  8)
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: lekw on 27 June 2013, 05:05:56 PM
Those are very nice. Love the basing and painting job.
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: callaghan on 27 June 2013, 06:13:53 PM
 :) You are very kind!!
Does anyone have any idea to make the barbed wire?
And for the trenches?  :-\
by
Alex
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Fenton on 27 June 2013, 06:18:04 PM
Fine mesh the sort you get for repairing car body work , cut into strips then twisted tight..its still quite sharp after that though
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: callaghan on 27 June 2013, 06:23:52 PM
 hell .. you're a genius!!  8)

I have also another problem: that the trenches.. (in fact they were tight a meter)
here .. how would you solve it?
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Hertsblue on 28 June 2013, 08:43:31 AM
The only way to really replicate narrow trenches is to build them with the figures in situ. This means chopping figures in half to populate the trenches. Then you can swap "full" and "empty" trench sections in and out as required. Otherwise you're back to the time-honoured fudge of only having the front wall of the trench with an "L" section that you can place your figures behind. 
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: Fenton on 28 June 2013, 08:49:53 AM
I  agree with Hertsblue, its the bases that get in the way...unless you want the trench to be a base depth in size or slightly large or its harder to get the figures out ( experience talking here)..Luckily with Pendraken prices being reasonable its a cost effective way of making it look nice with permanent trench troops
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: moocifer on 28 June 2013, 09:42:37 AM
Very nice.   :)
Title: Re: German Infantry Division - Caporetto - 1917
Post by: callaghan on 28 June 2013, 04:54:58 PM
thanks moocifer!

@Hertsblue and Fenton
The idea of the "trench base" is very interesting .. :-\

In fact you gave me a good idea about: to represent the battlefield entrenched with the "base trench", using only the bases of the troops in the assaults to represent the soldiers in the open field ..
It might be a good idea  :)

I'll have to make another order to Leon infantry to be sacrificed as a "half soldier" ..