The Nationalist forces are more or less complete, for the moment - I just have an HMG to do to finish them off. Three more of the Milicianas have been completed too, and the remainder are about 80% done - then its a choice between either their male Militia counterparts, or the regular Republican infantry.
Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Born and raised in an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897.
After the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) which eventually became the KPD. During the November Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. Luxemburg considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported the attempted overthrow of the government and rejected any attempt at a negotiated solution. Friedrich Ebert's majority SPD government crushed the revolt and the Spartakusbund by sending in the Freikorps, government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of World War I veterans. Freikorps troops captured and summarily executed Luxemburg and Liebknecht during the rebellion
Good jobs on these, pretty soon you will have enough for a small game.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe - in fact, using Iron Cross, the figures and vehicles I should have soon, will be sufficient for a decent sized game!
DeleteSome fine brushwork Keith!
ReplyDeleteCheers ray - I felt some the the Nationalists are a bit average - but 20mm is quite a bit harder to do a decent job of than 28mm!
DeleteLooking good Keith…
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the Milicianas…
Many years ago we put on a Spartacist game at the Partizan show…
We even had a model of the Brandenburg Gate.
It’s a fascinating piece of post WW1 history.
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly, a scale model of the Brandenburg Gate must have been quite something. I know Tsuba Miniatures do a range of Freikorps figures....
DeleteExcellent brushwork. Are you looking to add the Moors or Legion to your Nationalists
ReplyDeleteThanks Neil, yes I probably will, plus Requites (hope I guessed the spelling correctly). Unfortunately Minairons dint have Assault Guards in their range and the sculptor has retired...so I may have to try getting them from another supplier.
DeleteSteady progress, Keith! I agree with Scott, where are the Moroccans?
ReplyDeleteI refer the honourable gentleman to my previous statement!
DeleteLovely work sir!
ReplyDeleteBest regards
Thanks a lot Michal
DeleteHopefully we’ll see an armoured car or some such as well?
ReplyDeleteI have a number of tanks en route from First to Fight in Poland JBM. Armoured cars will be further down the track...Minairons do several!
DeleteReally nice work there Keith:).
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve
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ReplyDeleteWonderful stuff Keith.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stu, glad you approve!
DeleteMore lovely figures and great painting Keith. That shade of green is definitely works better.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence, yes I think the darker green seems more authentic.
DeleteNice looking figures! Your collection is growing pretty quickly it seems. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew - the 20mm figures are quite quick to do and of course most uniforms of the twentieth century, pre WW2 camo, are relatively simple to paint, which speeds things up a bit too!
DeleteLovely figs: hard to follow the string of political affiliations in the Rosa Luxuembourg bio, but it reminds me of when Orwell (in Homage to Catalonia) starts going into all of the factions: same stuff. Very eclectic timeframe, but makes for fascinating situations.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed - as for Rosa, I think she basically progressed from wishy washy parliamentary social democrats like the current British Labour Party or German SPD, by way of ever increasing radicalism, to an area of the extreme left that is completely unelectable and could only ever hope to gain power by revolution! Every time the party she was in "sold out" her principles, she moved another step to the left!
DeleteI find the machinations of the WotR harder to keep track of to be honest - far too many people with the same or very similar names, plus the confusion that people can be referred to by both their name (Thomas Stanley) or title (Earl of Derby) and writers seem to interchange between the two forms with dizzying regularity, sometimes in the same paragraph!
Cool additions to your ever growing SCW figures, Keith!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, appreciate the visit and comments!
DeleteEnjoyed the Luxemburg bio. Takes me back to A-level history. Now you're going to have to tell us about La Pasionaria with all these milicianas.
ReplyDeleteLol...thanks Chris. I watched the first two episodes of the Granada TV SCW doco as recommended by Steve J...made in the early eighties, many participants were still alive, including Delores Ibarruri, who was interviewed about her role in events.
DeleteGreat looking progress, Moors, Legion and the International brigade plus flags, what's not to like!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Hahaha....interestingly Iain, you mention all the units I do not yet possess in my collection! They will be added in due course though.
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