1914 GERMAN ARMY - CORPSMEN

 For the first time I tried to make a corpsman (eith injured soldier). I took as basis Arfix 

and in particular the unit of corpsmen:<

From this I did my template:

1914 GERMAN INFANTRY - EASTERN FRONT (NOVEMBER 1914 - DECEMBER 1914)

 My project about the German Amry in its first period of fighting (1914/1915) went on. More thant Tannenberg, I am fascinated by the following battle of Lodz, on middle November 1914, until 5th December 1914. This battle battle started in a still acceptable weather, just to turn rapidly bad.

Hence I wanted to recreate a mixture of uniforms: some men fighting, still have the normal uniform, while other already wears the coat and gloves. Some are just in the middle of this transformation, evident from the colour of the headgear.

I really liked to add the winter details to the normal uniforms, and, as fas as I remember, there are not examples of figures in this dress.

1914 GERMAN INFATRY - EASTERN FRONT

My temporary limit as history lover is 1914 (maybe February 1915); over this period for me there is no more interest, because it is too close to the current epoch with all its awful aspects.

During my researches for a template of a German soldier of the summer 1914 I had a lot of difficulties to find good miniatures and poses. So I had to invent some different ways to achieve my goal.

I thought about armies that had a sort of similar uniform of that of the German Army in 1914 and my attention went - obviously - to the Prussian Army in 1870. From some figures of that Army (of that army there are much more examples) I did my template:

In the previous pictures is possible to have a glance of the differences I did: the colour of the uniform but also the helm, as well as the rucksack. I think in this way it is also very interesting to see the evolution of the German/Prussian uniforms from 1870 to 1914.

Figure Nr. 2

The same transformation was done here above.

I decided in the last case to change the head of the German shooter (figure nr. 3):

Figure Nr. 3

For this purpose I had to use an old but original picture of a German soldier and adapt it to the template as in the following figure (Nr. 4)

Figure Nr 4

Also in this case, the base was a Prussian soldier modified. I do prefer the new helm as it came out from the picture.

It is also interesting to note the increase in details if I just show here a previous template I did in 2015 (Figure Nr. 5)

Figure Nr. 5

Futhermore, to increase the different poses, I took samples from papersoldiers for Zulu wars and I transformed them: