Minairons previews SCW Requeté militia

[Lluis of Minairons]

After some time of frantic activity time, either re-vamping the miniature ranges of his own, or launching a new WWII 1:72 models and accessories company christened as Steel 72, our sculptor Xan has finally met the time for creating a new set of Spanish Civil War 20mm figures for Minairons.

Such new set is devoted to Requeté traditionalist militias and will consist of 18 figures, comprehensive of NCOs and officers, an LMG team, flag bearer and christophore. Here below you have his preliminary sketches on it:





It's soon still to give an ultimate deadline for their release. It depends not just on sculptor's own speed at making the greens, but also on other factors to be kept in mind: boxart progression, packaging design and printing... However, my overall feeling is that we'll be able to release them reasonably soon.

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[despertaferro]

A must to have...

But I did prefer your earlier system of two boxes devoted to every kind of troops; one with privates and NCO’s and a second release with officers and specialists. That worked very well with me.

In this case, I need to buy three boxes to build a reasonable sized unit. And, while there would be no problem repeating some private poses, a good deal of flagbearers, gunners and officers must be left aside. Making regular army units, you can mix figures from different sets masking the differences with some painting; but, with these guys, there is not an easy way to turn them into something different.

[Jesse]

Great! Been waiting for some Requetes!

[Lluis of Minairons]

Yes there is a simple and historical way to combine such new guys, @despertaferro. In spite of the archetypal image we've acquired about Requetes (with their red berets and so), they used exactly the same dressing and equipment as Nationalist regular infantry (inclusive of helmets!!), so that in the field they could be distinguishable from the 'normal' conscript infantryman only by eventual chest patches. Therefore, they can be freely combined with our 20GEF006 and 20GEF007 Nationalist Infantry sets.