Spanish Civil War Armies & Uniforms (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

Hopefully John will expand to cover the various forces involved.
These are plates from the Osprey volume on the SCW:

Nationalist Army & A Republican

 

[PolarBear]

Republican Army & A Nationalist

 

[PolarBear]

Here are 2 useful sites on the SCW and its soldiers. The 2nd site is for wargamers who already have figures covering this period. It includes painting guides.


http://militarescw.blogspot.com/ (source for the Osprey prints)

http://balagan.org.uk/war/spanish-civil-war/index.htm

 

[damian]

Looking forward to the Lincoln Brigade and George Orwell as well as other literary volunteers.

 

[PolarBear]

Looking forward to the Lincoln Brigade and George Orwell as well as other literary volunteers.

Don't forget Hemingway !

A button from Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the US

 

[damian]

Lyrics to Jarama Valley :
There’s a valley in Spain called Jarama
It’s a place that we all know so well
It was there that we fought against the Fascists
We saw a peacful valley turn to hell

From this valley they say we are going
But don’t hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We’ll set this valley free 'fore we’re through

We were men of the Lincoln Battalion
We’re proud of the fight that we made
We know that you people of the valley
Will remember our Lincoln Brigade

From this valley they say we are going
But don’t hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We’ll set this valley free 'fore we’re through

You will never find peace with these Fascists
You’ll never find friends such as we
So remember that valley of Jarama
And the people that’ll set that valley free

From this valley they say we are going
Don’t hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We’ll set this valley free 'fore we’re through

All this world is like this valley called Jarama
So green and so bright and so fair
No fascists can dwell in our valley
Nor breathe in our new freedom’s air

From this valley they say we are going
Do not hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We’ll set this valley free 'fore we’re through
[ Jarama Valley Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]

 

[PolarBear]

From Empress Miniatures:

http://www.empressminiatures.com/page7.htm

 

[jazzeum]

Thanks for posting these Randy.

 

[damian]

Some Posters.

 

[PolarBear]

Del Prado's Spanish Civil War:

International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War: Volunteer, Dimitrov Battalion, Jarama 1937

The Spanish Civil War, Corporal, Nationalist Infantry

 

[PolarBear]

Boy if this takes off John could be busy for quite some time with both figures and vehicles. This conflict like the Sudan is popular with wargamers and John is among that group.

 

[jazzeum]

Regarding the posters posted by Damian:

Durruti - Buenaventura Durruti was an important anarchist from Cataluna who led the Durruti column.

No Pasaran - The cry of La Pasionaria, Dolores Ibarruri, an important Communist figure, who said "it is better to die on your feet than live on your feet."

Third poster translation - Worker, becoming part of the Iron Column strengthens the Revolution!

Poster with the tank - July 19, 1936 and always our common objective. Smash Fascism! (the uprising of the rightists started on July 18; this was poster was put out by by the CNT and FAI, anarcho-syndicalist unions based in Barcelona).

 

[jazzeum]

Boy if this takes off John could be busy for quite some time with both figures and vehicles. This conflict like the Sudan is popular with wargamers and John is among that group.

John told me he had wargamed with SCW figures.

 

[Spanish soldier]

I was 12 when General Franco died in 1975, but my grandparents lived in 1936 in Ceuta (North Africa), Spanish city controlled by Franco's army in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.

 

[jazzeum]

When I lived in Madrid in the mid 70s I lived on what was then called the Generalissimo Franco but is now called the Paseo de la Castellana. Franco and his motorcade would occasionally pass and I would go out and watch it. Of course, you didn't know if it was a double. He was a cagey man. The leader of the revolt was to be General Sanjurjo but on his way from Portugal his plane crashlanded. Rumor has it that Franco sabotaged the plane. Although never confirmed, Beevor believes that it was just an accident.

I wasn't in the country when he died but my father told me that when his body was lying in state at the (I think) National Palace, several old Falangistas would walk past the casket show the Falangist salute and yell "Generalissimo, Presente!"

 

[jazzeum]

My father went on a tour of the Jarama battlefield and at that time (early 1970s), you could still pick up many bullets and shrapnel from the battlefield. I have all of those still. I will take a photo and post.

 

[fortdearborn]

I also visited Jarama back in 1970 when I visited a number of SCW batlefields including the Ebro, and other points of interest such as the bridge at Ronda.

I have a modest collection of uniforms and headgear. I have a partially handmade Republican Army Adrienne helmet (the telltale marks from a metalworker's mallet are clearly discernible) as well as an officer's uniform and flat billed hat with Republican cockade and regimental number affixed on the front.

As to figures don't forget Spain's Alymer which produced a number of different SCW sets and Spain's BUM's extensive 1/72 nd line which is up to about 30 different boxes of figures, planes and buildings. I have figures from two different 54mm lines which I need to figure out how to share with you.

 

[fortdearborn]

Also regarding a poster posted by Damian:

The poster --No Pasaran - besides depicting the motto of the Republican defenders of Madrid, coined by La Pasionaria, the poster also depicts a barricade erected in the streets of Madrid at which the "common people of Spain" rose up against the Fascist rebels who were seeking to overthrow the legitimately elected government and who sought a quick victory by seizing the nation's capital city. In the middle of the defenders, in the blue cap, is a Meliciana, a woman volunteer fighting shoulder to shoulder with the working class men for the Republic. (Their working class origins are revealed by their being dressed in the traditional one piece coverall called a mono
which railroad workers, factory workers, miners and mechanics all wore to protect their street clothes at work from the perpetually existent grime, dirt and oil.) The Meliciana and all the other forward thinking and progressive ideals of the Republicans are what endears me to their cause and their memory.
Marc Gaynes
Chicago

 

[PolarBear]

Del Prado - Spain 1994 - Spanish Civil War Standard Bearers, comprising: 2 x 21/22cm scale white metal figures depicting "Phalangist" Standard Bearers of the Spanish Civil War circa 1936/37.

 

[PolarBear]

From 2007 BMMS show


"After Capa" in Class 8 for converted and scratchbuilt figures, based on Robert Capa's haunting photo from the Spanish Civil War"

Historians now believe this photo was staged.