So Neustadt seem to be in need of some form of local defenses - it's only a matter of time before those dreaded Russkis/Ami's/Tommies appear and bring to end the peace and quiet that is Neustadt, which seems to have evaded much of the turmoil of the war until 1945.
My main wargaming obsession for many years was the Battle for Berlin. I mean a real obsession (I remember receiving a copy of "The Fall of Berlin" by Read & Fisher one valentines and being convinced it was possibly THE best present ever... ) I read as much as I could, spent hideous amounts of money on obscure books, terrain, figures and models - and became deeply enmeshed in the fabric of it all.
After all the work I've done on Neustadt, I guess it was almost inevitable that there would be an urge to populate it. To see the people who lived there eventually... My initial thought was to add some figures "for colour" after long ago Matt at Elhiem made 'Helga der Milchmädchen' for John and I as we set out many moons ago on our Byzantium oddessy (Matt used to cast our chimneys for us). My intention was to sit these figures within the main Neustadt thread, until I decided recently to commit once again to building a Volkssturm Abt.
Just a few of the titles keeping me visually inspired at the moment...
Yes... this isn't my first venture into the Reich's Dad' Army... many moons ago I even went as far as to write an article on the subject that appeared in Wargames Illustrated and later the SOTCW Journal. I still have those figures somewhere - they haven't seen battle in over a decade.
My recent work on 'Kampfgruppe Wotan' has made me realise I'm actually enjoying painting figures again, however, the constant dotting of the camoflage can be a bit off-putting sometimes. So I figured some simply dressed Volkssturm would allow me a palette cleanser when I wanted to paint and couldn't face more dots!
So this was the beginning of my trip down memory lane...
I'm pretty happy with these, even to the point of not minding showing them at a larger scale...
