The New Arrivals

 I described the Stonewall Miniatures figures as "eclectic WWII" in my last post. Well, here they are, you be the judge!

The figures are mainly from the right-hand column.....Chetniks. In case anyone does not know, here is the ever-helpful Wikipedia info:

The Chetniks (Serbo-Croatian: Четници, Četnici, pronounced [tʃɛ̂tniːtsi]; Slovene: Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. Although it was not a homogeneous movement, it was led by Draža Mihailović. While it was anti-Axis in its long-term goals and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods, it also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with Axis forces for almost all of the war. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by both establishing a modus vivendi and operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the puppet Government of National Salvation in the German-occupied territory of Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied Dalmatia and Montenegro, with some of the Ustaše forces in northern Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation in September 1943, with the Germans directly.

There was a lot more, but I thought you might get bored - just Google it if you want to! One interesting snippet though is this 

The Chetniks were active in the uprising in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from July to December 1941. As a result of the Battle of Loznica at the end of August, Mihailović's Chetniks were the first to liberate a European city from Axis control.

Now, here are some pics of the figures. I did get quite a few extra packs from Mark at Stonewall Miniatures as recompense for the delay in actioning my order (which was very nice of him!) so I don't know exactly what some of these packs are!

This is 2 x Russian mule train and handler - they may end up in Espana!

A BMW staff car - nice little cast metal model, I might get a couple more of these as they could easily be repurposed to civilian models. The model only costs £3.85!

Two packs of the above civilian refugees - can be used anywhere, once again, including Spain!

Five in this pack but only these three variants - Chetnik women with supplies - could easily be painted as Spaniards, including nuns with those headscarves?

Armed Chetnik females

This is one of the bonus packs - Chetniks committing ethnic cleansing/war crimes maybe - or they could just be killing German sentries!

Male Chetniks

Mounted Chetniks

Early WWII Russian command - probably going to end up as Soviet advisors in the Iberian Peninsula!

Soviet casualties and medical staff.

And finally, looking for something to read, I pulled this book from the "library" cupboard - no idea how long I have had it - quite possibly forty years. I have read the odd paragraph but never started at the beginning, which I did a couple of nights ago - hopefully, it does not awaken any latent interest in the Italian Wars and Spanish tercios (which is where the opening chapter begins the story!)

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