Hi all
A jump from the desert series to something completely different...
Some facts:
Breslau (nowadays Wroclaw in Poland) was the last capital city to surrender in Germany,
on May 6th 1945, even after Berlin.
It was fanatically defended by a mix of 45,000 to 80,000 regular soldiers and Volkssturm,
with a backbone of a Fallschirmjager regiment and a Hitlerjugend regiment.
Some 150,000 civilians were caught in the fights, many of them died.
Defenders had only a handfull of recovered tanks (17) but plenty of ammunition and explosives.
It was a terrific house-to-house fight, some say even more ferocious and merciless then Stalingrad
or Berlin.
The Russians, with an overall supremacy, throw in everything they had, including criminal batallions,
but lost, amongst others, over 200 tanks.
I try to depict a group Wehrmacht/Volksturm soldiers in a streetfight.
To start with here is a typical city building made from blue foam
Now with some detail, in a basic black primer
Still a lot to do, door, glass shards, sidewalk, street, figures, a gun etc.
Thanks for looking, Willem
A jump from the desert series to something completely different...
Some facts:
Breslau (nowadays Wroclaw in Poland) was the last capital city to surrender in Germany,
on May 6th 1945, even after Berlin.
It was fanatically defended by a mix of 45,000 to 80,000 regular soldiers and Volkssturm,
with a backbone of a Fallschirmjager regiment and a Hitlerjugend regiment.
Some 150,000 civilians were caught in the fights, many of them died.
Defenders had only a handfull of recovered tanks (17) but plenty of ammunition and explosives.
It was a terrific house-to-house fight, some say even more ferocious and merciless then Stalingrad
or Berlin.
The Russians, with an overall supremacy, throw in everything they had, including criminal batallions,
but lost, amongst others, over 200 tanks.
I try to depict a group Wehrmacht/Volksturm soldiers in a streetfight.
To start with here is a typical city building made from blue foam
Now with some detail, in a basic black primer
Still a lot to do, door, glass shards, sidewalk, street, figures, a gun etc.
Thanks for looking, Willem
