'Red' Sailors available

I'm sorry, that it took so long until these are finally available! The moulding and casting has already been finished some weeks ago but I had my final exam at university last week and wanted to have that out of the way before committing to Tsuba Miniatures once again.

The good thing about the delayed release is that Andrew Taylor had the time to paint the miniatures in the meantime. Iain of Flags of War, once again, contributed to the little project with two all new sheets of flags for the Sailors or any other force fighting for the Räterepublik and against the Freikorps.

Just a word on the national cockade (the little round patch on the hats/caps): While a lot of sources claim, that they were nearly always removed, quite some contemporary photos show the Sailors (and other men fighting for the Räterepublik) still wearing them. Often there are men with and without the cockade shown in the same photography. Most of the miniatures come with the cockade sculpted on as it is easier to file/scrape them off rather than paint them on freehand.

The make-up of the sets is pretty similar to those of the Freikorps Werdenfels but the command and assault sets are slightly different:

 

  RS-01 Command 

(containing two Officer/NCO types, one Standard-bearer and a Sailor priming a hand grenade)

 RS-02 Sailors advancing

(containing four different Sailors with rifles)

  RS-03 Sailors firing/loading

(containing four different Sailors with rifles)

 RS-04 HMG team

(containing a MG08 and a crew of three)

RS-05 Assault team

(containing two Sailors armed with MP18 SMGs and a two-men MG08/15 team)

The pricing is also similar to the Freikorps Werdenfels:
€ 7.50 per single set of miniatures and € 2.50 per flag sheet.
Again, a deal containing all five sets + one sheet of flags of your choice is available for € 36.- (instead of € 40.-, thus granting 10% discount).

Here are the two sheets of flags (to simplify things, I've changed over to using the codes of Flags of War for the flag sheets):

INT02 German Communists (Rote Garde)

INT03 German Communists (Alle Macht)

As you can see, each sheet gets you one plain red flag and another one with a written slogan. The first one (INT02) reads:

Rote Garde

hoch

d[ie] soz[ialistische] kom[m]unistische

Räte Republik

which translates pretty much to:

Red Guard

long live

the socialistic communistic

Republic of Councils (or Soviet Republic)

The second one (INT03) reads:

Alle Macht

den

A[rbeiter-] u[nd] S[oldaten-]Räten

which translates to:

All Might 

to the

Workers' and Soldiers' Councils

These slogans are based on contemporary photos. I will post the respective photos over the next couple of days. Here's one of them in use on the Sailor carrying a standard:

'Sale' on misprinted flag sheets: 

Due to a misunderstanding the first print-run has some typing errors on the second flags on the respective sheets, while the plain red ones are perfectly usable. If you only want the plain red flag, just let me know. I can let these sheets go for just € 1.- per sheet instead of € 2.50.

PLEASE NOTE: If you order a regular sheet INT02 or INT03 you will receive a correct sheet of the second print-run without any typing error.

Merry Christmas!

'Red' Sailors greens

These are basically done, I've just asked Paul to add the rhomboid looking collar insignias and the ends of the cap bands for the 'sailor-look' like this man serving with the Torpedodivision L5 (photo found on the internet):

For now there will be five sets:
- Command set
- Sailors with rifles advancing
- Sailors with rifles firing/loading
- HMG (this set will, of course, also include a MG08 HMG although it's not show on the photo)
- Sailors with assault weapons

Hopefully, we'll have the castings available in February 2014!

More greens for the Russo-Japanese War

Japanese ammo bearers:

Japanese ammo bearers

This set will contain an ammo bearer handing ammunition to a trooper, a mule handler and a mule packed with ammo crates:

 

The second set will be called 'Humanity triumphant' after an old illustration:

Containing a double-figure of a Russian soldier carrying a wounded Japanese officer to safety and a Japanese soldier caring for a wounded Russian by giving him a sip of water from his canteen.

Here's the illustration that served as the role-model for the miniatures (I think it is from one of the Cassel volumes on the Russo-Japanese War, but I'm not sure):
 

 

Dollies for the Japanese cavalrymen

We've already seen their mounts and here they are:

Not much to say about them, just that they look to be a great starting point for some very nice miniatures next year. ;-)

Japanese horses & mule painted

Here they are, all eight different horses for the Japanese cavalry painted by Simon of Stone Cold Lead.

There are two sets with four horses each, one with standing/trotting horses and the other one with running/galloping:

Standing/trotting Japanese horses

Running/galloping Japanese horses

Simon also painted the pack mule, that will be part of the upcoming Japanese ammo bearer set:

The mule and all eight horses, incl. all the sadles, harnesses, equipment and baggage, were sculpted by eBob.


PS: The dollies for the cavalry soldiers and the ammo bearers should be in the work right now! ;-)

Stay tuned - small teaser

Still not much to show but we hope to have pictures of the next set of dollies and greens in about a month's time.

Here's a small teaser, though. A green of a wounded Russian soldier, that will be part of a joined Japanese-Russian set:

(As always, sculpted by Paul Hicks.)