ANZACS and the return of 'Them', ( & Cthulu Kong, Goldylocks etc!))

Black Sun has a Nazi Faction , relics from a Pre WW2 lost expedition to the Himalayan Mountains. Called  the Deutsche LIG ( Lemurian Untersuchungsgruppe) which are the usual mix of Scientists,  officers  Zombies and Ghouls.

Didn’t fancy that particularly,  I had already dug up the disembodied Brains and Big Ape,but what else, wasn’t particularly struck by the loan Crucible Crush single pack , so looked for Alternatives.

Now I had some Artizan Designs Afrika Korps, which were nice matches for my recent CC and Empress figures.

Why Afika Korps,

1 I had some figures

2 Thought they would have had to have more tropical uniforms, and figured why not use Afika Korps , plus covers uniforms they used in Med.

3I wanted to get from the traditional Zombie types.

4 Quite a few of Artizans figures had masked up faces that fitted my idea.

So the plan was to have standard German Infantry, but obviously most of these guys would be in their 50’s to 60’s with the youngest being 49 if they set out when 19. So how did they keep going.

Using the settings background of secret experiments with old Lemurian tech. Rather than Zombies, reckoned they would have been forced to look for some sort of Immotrality drug .

So let’s ay they succeeded to some of extent, the drug helped in keeping the soldiers Vitality   but in males caused their skin to go grey and wrinkly.  So some troopers have taken it before the side effects became obvious. One benefit though was the effected troops became more able to withstand wounds , and could survive were most normal Humans would die.

On females Vitality was maintained without the skin effects but they did not get the wound ability.

This is so I could then use sone of the Nice pulpy German Figures for Pulp Figures other ranges.

So plan was a squad of not Zombie Germans plus some standard Human German troops.

The Standard German Infantry would be Artizan Afrika Korps from my leftovers from other projects.

The not Zombies would be masked a wrapped up Afrika Korps from a mixture of suitable Artizan figures plus a Sprue of Warlord figures , one of Wargame Illustrated freebies.

This Sprue allowed me to do a few figures with captured American and Soviet wpns , in an attempt to get catch up tech, using suitable are wpn  arms from Wargames Atlantics Operators etc.

So using the Warlord Sprue  did one with the standard German Light Mortar , one with the Mg34 (it is probably better than M60 so suck with it.

Then did 2 with M16 type Rifles  1 with Ak47 and one firing a LAW for some Anti tank.

Now for painting them I wanted to find suitable Speedpaints for the German tropical uniforms.

This turned out to be easier than I thought,  for the Light Afrika Korps uniform I found that Speed Paints Algae Green worked as a close match with its slightly brownish look. For the Sand Uniforms I found Speed Paints Ohcre Clay was a good match.

The brown leather belts was done by darkening Clay Ocre, with SpeedpaintsLHardened Leather..

The wpn conversions were fairly easy  the WA arms generally fitted without problem even the Law.

So that gave me the Nazi Cannon fodder, I already had some weird figures with the Disembodied Brains and Ape,so next it wa Nazi Characters and Leaders.