The scouts are back! (Finnish cavalry)

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May 30, 2024
First sketch.
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June 1, 2024
Second sketch.
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June 1, 2024
Finnish traffic signs at the bridge. Designed according to the originals (liikennemerkki).
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May 18, 2024
First sitting test on the horses (Dragon, Tamiya)
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May 17, 2024
Headless, armless, earless.
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May 17, 2024
After and before: Right leg of a German Cossack (Dragon) and left leg transformed into a finnish cavalryman
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June 8, 2024
NCO (left) and cavalryman (right). Both are from the kit German Cavalry Division (Dragon #6046).
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June 8, 2024
Officer with a new head from The Bodi. The body is a German Cossack (Dragon). More carving is necessary.
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June 8, 2024
Mounted infantryman (Tamiya) + new head (The Bodi) = finnish cavalryman. The belt buckle has to be removed.
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June 8, 2024
Cavalryman: torso of Cossack 2 + head of Cossack 1 (Dragon) + legs, which have to be carved (Tamiya, mounted infantry) + Helmet (?),
may be kuk-WW1-Type (ICM) - a donation of a Hungarian countess.
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June 8, 2024
Using a fine saw - the beginning of a metamorphosis. German mounted infantry (Tamiya). New Helmet or new head? I've bought Italian heads with M33-Helmet (Hornet).
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June 20, 2024
Planning the bridge
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June 27, 2024
Ratsumies (= finn. cavalryman). Huumola. 1939.12.14
Source: "SA-kuva" (Finnish Armed Forces photograph)
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June 30, 2024
Taistelumaastoja (battlefield), bunkkereita (bunker) , korsuja (shelters).
Perkjärvi 1943.09.01
Source: "SA-Kuva" (Finnish Armed Forces photograph)
Topographic map Perkjärvi 1938: cf. discusmedia.com/maps/karelia/9105/ (3.7.2024)
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July 2, 2024
The last horse in piglet pink (Livestock II, Tamiya). It will be used as a pack animal. The carrying frame has to be homemade using information to the reindeer (ICM) and a field manual "Use of pack animals".
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July 21, 2024
There is something to change about the Tamiya horse. Finnish military saddles had no saddle horn. Seen on a picture of an online auction.
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July 21, 2024
Reality is always the best template. Lutto 16.7.1942
Source: "SA-kuva" (Wartime Archive - Finnish Armed Forces photograph)
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August 3, 2024
The waiting cavalry group.
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August 3, 2024
1 x Dragon (back right), 3 x Tamiya - 2 x heads: The Bodi (front right and back left) - 1 x helmet: ICM (front left).
More to come.

Comentarios

14 17 May 2024, 13:41

Mathias Decommere
I love these scetches!

1 June 2024, 07:48

Thomas E. Autor
Very kind - thanx TT

1 June 2024, 11:49

Thomas E. Autor
Thank you for all the likes and the comment. The horses will be the next paintjob probably. Now they are ten. 9+1. No. 10 is a pack animal, a pink(!) horse made by Tamiya. Every little girl would be happy. I think it will get some reddish black-brown colour ...

1 July 2024, 07:51

Thomas E. Autor
Very helpful: jaegerplatoon.net/ -> Finnish Army 1918 - 1945 Website (text in english)
Highly recommended!

2 July 2024, 10:19

Album info

German cossacks (ww2, Dragon) -> transformation into finnish cavalry -> will be continued

The scouts are back!

19 imágenes

1:35

En espera

1:35 Wehrmacht Mounted Infantry Set (Tamiya 35053)

1:35 Cavalry Division Florian Geyer (Dragon 6046)

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