Romanian infantry WW2

To accompany my mountain troops I painted some line infantry. These figures are Classic Toy Soldiers plastics. CTS sell the same figures listed as Italians and Romanians, though the helmets are very definitely Italian in shape. So my dilemma was - do I just paint them or alter the shape of the helmets?  Predictably I opted for the easy option!

The complete figures. Enough for a weak battalion in our Sevastopol 1942 game.

A damn useful book!

Romanian Mountain Troops

 Slightly better photos of the finished figures. Now read on.....

Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19, I am continuing to plan and prepare for this year’s games. For the Sevastopol 1942 game I wanted to have some Romanians available and as no specifically Romanian figures are available, a gentle ponder was required.

I decided on bodging some mountain troops and used the Hat/Waterloo1815 WW1 Italians as my starting point. I trimmed down the helmets and added Milliput berets. You can find a lot of issues with the result but I purposely kept the figures rather vague as they may be called upon to serve as various other khaki-clad beret wearers. Spaniards and Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais spring to mind.

 A bad photo of the finished figures. 

Work in progress - the chaps before varnishing. 

I’m thinking of doing more Romanians - possibly adapting the CTS Italians.
Brian C has taken a different approach, mining his apparently bottomless pit of plastic figures - see also Brian’s post here.

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Calatafimi, 1860

This was a Battle Cry game played with 54mm figures on my Hexon terrain. Most of the figures I had painted specially for the game. They were a mix of ACW and Napoleonic plastics, largely ‘converted by paint’. I think at least seven manufacturers were represented!  I also built some hills out of 1-inch insulation board to better match the stature of the figures.
Unfortunately my photos have become rather jumbled but I hope you’ll enjoy them anyway.

British napoleonics standing in for Royalist forces.

The Royalists with the flag began life as ‘Alamo’ Mexicans.