Hello, thank you very much for your words.
Peter, as you probably know, I’m still tied to my old Humbrol enamels. And I don’t know if because of Brexit or Covid or both, it is impossible to find them in Barcelona`s shops. Just what it is remaining from the old stocks. And I'm running out of matte coate (I was well provide, believe me...
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Since this is an essential step in my painting style, I am forced to find alternatives that, at the moment, do not work very well. Sometimes a little shiny, often leaving a sediment in the cracks, which covers the contour effect of the dark wash.
Still working on it...
Graeme, Spanish Foreign Legion and the Catalan "Karl Marx" Militia Battalion are next... ;-D
Kekso, I can feel the pressure...
As for the 13th International Brigade ... (Brigade Drombrowski, poles mostly)
It wasn't the most glamorous of all ... Unlike the 11th (Thälmann) and its role in defending Madrid (advertising efforts were made at the time to exaggerate their acchievements, because the Republican government was interested in giving value to communist forces and hiding the key role played by the different militias who really had the weight of defense, but over whom the governement had none or very little control) or the 15th (Abraham Lincoln) with its British, American and Canadian battalions (which I am planning to do, all of them...
), the 13th only played a discreet role on secondary battlefronts.
But I chose the 13th for only one reason: in its Palafox battalion was the Naftali-Botwin company, made up exclusively of Jewish volunteers. And this I absolutely want to do.
Figures are the usual mix of everything that could fit the period. This time I wanted to give them a winter look because, maybe one day, I can make something suitable for Teruel's battle (the SCW Stalingrad...) and I wanted to see how they could look like...
The two Renaults are from First-to-Fight.
All the best!
Joan