North Koreans

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

FINALLY, got mine done (good thing too, I bought them for myself at Warfare last year, and bought some opponents at Warfare THIS year). Wanted to have a significant post for 19999...

The whole company


Company command


Infantry platoons

(Command stand, 2 LMG stands, 4 rifle stands)

Weapons Platoon

Command, 3 60mm mortars, 3 81mm mortars, 6 A/T rifles and 4 LMGs

South Koreans next... eek!

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

+1.

Very nice work, Will.

Cheers - Phil

[Sunray]

Inspiring as always.   Neat work Will. 

Its time to get some eye candy Korean range on the forum.

My North and South Koreans are getting prepped up for a Boxing Day battle as 1960s bush war Batasi rebel forces .  I was inspired by "Guns at Batasi" (1964) movie, and the Christian province - evocative of Biafra - breaks from the predominately Muslim  Zambalia Federal Republic in East Africa.   

The shift to the East allows Arab style buildings you find along the coast.

Since Leon shipped out the much needed Saracens and Saladins the ZFR have their armour. Troops are British Falklands.  The Batasi troops are  a Rowntrees force.  Allsorts.
One mercenary figure is Tiny Bill - a Timecast Soviet giant with a new beret head. 

I could not source Mini Con aircraft for Count von Rosen (converted Arrowhead figure), so he had to do with an HA-1112.

Images will follow.     

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

North Korean T-34-85s (although may almost certainly get used in other times, as other forces, and on other fronts).
Meant to be four in a company, but only remembered that AFTER I ordered them, so the fourth is on it's way from Leon.


Tried to make them suitable grimy


One is traversing some rocks


Ready to roll


Forgot to paint the exhausts, oh well, soon fixed!


Ready for action

[Techno 3]

Nice work, Will !

[Big Insect]

Of course, to get the really authentic basing effect for your Korean War figures, you should really be mixing a lot of human excrement into the basing material!   

Having read up a fair few personal accounts from US, UK and Commonwealth soldiers that fought in Korea, when researching for the BKCIV 'Forgotten War' rules supplement, the all-pervasive and unbelievably strong smell of untreated human sewage was one of the most notable things they all commented upon, when they first arrived.
Which was caused by the long-standing Korean farming practice of spreading untreated human waste on their vegetable fields .... just a thought (all be it not a nice one) 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[Raider4]

I remember reading in a Featherstone book from the library in the 70's that UN forces were reluctant to leave roads & tracks and go through fields in Korea. It was baked into the rules presented. I don't remember the reason being mentioned though. 

[Big Insect]

I remember reading in a Featherstone book from the library in the 70's that UN forces were reluctant to leave roads & tracks and go through fields in Korea. It was baked into the rules presented. I don't remember the reason being mentioned though.

That sound very sensible. I suspect that you'd not want to be stuck in a fox-hole or worse a tank after a colleague had run across a field!

It was something the Koreans apparently learnt to do when under earlier Chinese rule/subjugation.
The Chinese had done the same for centuries.
In fact, in 1296, Zhou Daguan specifically makes reference to the practice by the Chinese, in his book The Customs of Cambodia.
Zhou was part of a Yuan Chinese diplomatic delegation to the Khmer (Cambodian) court and he states that as the Cambodians did not spread human manure on their fields, he refrained from mentioning that the Chinese did, to avoid the distain of his hosts, who already thought the Chinese barbaric for using paper* to clean themselves.
He states that the Cambodians used water, which he found most odd.

You cannot say that you don't get 'heducated' on this 'ear' forum 

NB: *this might be one of the earliest recorded mentions of toilet paper - unless somebody knows differently???

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The 'missing' T-34-85


Trundle


Heavy armour


Boom! (Which way the boom is swinging, is still to be seen)

[fred.]

Can I make a suggestion for basing tanks - whilst the sand (or whatever basing material is being used) is still wet, press the model down into the ground work. Then you end up with tracks slightly into the ground rather than floating above (which can happen if there are any lumps in the basing).

Otherwise its a bit like the visual effect of the polystyrene rocks following on Sean Connery's head when he fights the Kurgen in the tower in Highlander

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks Forbes.
The idea was to have them traversing rocks/rubble, didn't quite work out! 

[fred.]

Yeah, I thought that was the idea - but then the back needs to dig in a bit!