15mm Big Men

Had a small disaster last week. I found that my backup DVD with all my photos of miniatures and games going back the last 10 years was almost completely corrupted. Still, I managed to save a couple of SCW pics and here they are.


'Big Men' from my games using Up Your Cara Al Sol, the Spanish Civil War supplement to I Ain't Been Shot Mum by the Too Fat Lardies. This supplement is available in their 2004 Summer Special. The figures are my Abraham-Lincolns from Peter Pig. An OOP Militiaman to the left (range 13, pack.7), and an International Brigader on right (range13, pack.8) whom I really like. Love the Stalin cap, but getting 2-3 SMGs in a pack of 8 figures is a bit much. If he'd had long trousers rather than breeches, he would have been useful as an Asalto or Carabinero or even a generic Republican Brigada.


Abraham-Lincolns, again from Peter Pig. A Nationalist infantryman on the left (range 13, pack.1), with tassle and forward point of his gorro sidecap filed down to be of a more Republican shape. You'll notice that I've painted him and the Big Man with SMG in the picture above in a ligter shade of khaki represent the 'summer' uniform found in many photos of the XVth International Brigade. I think the figure on the right is from the International Brigade pack (range 13, pack.8). I painted him wearing a leather jacket for additional variety.


A Nationalist 37mm, Pak36 anti-tank gun in action. I tend to keep gun crews separate so that; 1) I can use the guns in WW1, RCW or WW2 as required, 2) mix and match which side uses the guns in the SCW, 3) Reuse the gunners on dfferent types of guns. Peter Pig doesn't do any appropriate crew figures for anti-tank/infantry guns/mortars etc in their Spanish Civil War range, so I cobbled together crews taken from the Nationalist HMG pack (kneeling, range 13, pack.17) and Nationalist LMG pack (lying, range 13, Pack.9). Looks effective though. The Pak36 is also from Peter Pig (range 8, pack.35) and I should note, has been remodelled since I purchased the one in the photo.

In 'squint mode' you can use the German Pak36 as either the Soviet 37mm M1930 37mm anti-tank gun or the later 45mm M1937 anti-tank gun both of which saw service in Spain and were based upon the Rheinmetall Pak36. The M1930 should really have spoked wheels, whilst the M1937 had a slightly longer barrel, but not enough to worry about in this scale if the SCW isn't your prime wargaming interest.